For years the government has been talking about eliminating hand-pulled rickshaws on what it calls humanitarian grounds—principally on the ground that, as the mayor of Kolkata has often said ...

It is impossible to visualise a street of Kolkata without the rickshaws, the taxis, the trams, the buses. Not everything that Kolkata housed survived, but their memories are etched deep in the soul of ...

Rickshaw pullers in Kolkata's 'Mini Bangladesh' are facing a 75% income drop due to strained India-Bangladesh relations. The decrease in Bangladeshi tourists has forced many, who once earned Rs ...

Kolkata (WB), September 8 (ANI): In a unique act of protest, ‘Rickshaw wallahs’ in Kolkata staged protest over brutal rape and murder of trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital. The gruesome ...