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 ...

Around 100 people also rallied with their hand-pulled rickshaws from Hedua Park to College Square in north Kolkata. Hundreds of junior doctors of state-run NRS Hospital took out a rally from ...

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 ...

This is a handbell used by a rickshaw driver in Kolkata. The contributor got it in India a few years ago as a souvernir. He bought it as a keepsake believing that soon there will not be any ...

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 ...