The Sept. 5 feast of St. Teresa of Kolkata — better known as Mother Teresa — was celebrated in a simple and somber manner at the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Kolkata, India, with hundreds of ...

KOLKATA, India — At least 14 people, including two children, died in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata late Tuesday when a fire blazed through a six-story hotel in a congested neighborhood, ...

When I moved from California to Calcutta in 2011, I would joke that I had merely exchanged one Cal for another. It was not technically true. Calcutta, the bustling metropolis where I was born, once ...

Engineers and engineering students attend a protest against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital, in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Bikas Das ...

Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is a relatively young city, an amalgamation of villages (including one named Kalikata) formed after the English landed on the swampy shores of the Ganges in Bengal in the ...

NEW DELHI — Calcutta reverted to its indigenous name of Kolkata on Saturday, joining a growing number of Indian cities trying to shrug off their colonial legacy by bringing back their old monikers.