At Scotland's team announcement on Tuesday, Andy Robinson was at great pains to talk up the opposition in tomorrow's Six Nations opener at Murrayfield, pulling back from his previous attack on "the arrogance" of certain England players. "I think it's a quality side we're up against," he said. "We've got a lot of respect for the coaches that are there with England."

The England coach says home side will be favourites on Saturday due to red rose side's 'unspeakable past'

A school teacher became a billionaire overnight after a bank deposited 490bn rupees (£6.3bn) into his account by mistake.

Villagers in West Bengal destroy shops that sold poison drink while police round up suspects

A tainted batch of bootleg alcohol has killed at least 102 people and sent dozens more to hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said.

Seven directors of private clinic in Calcutta face charges of culpable homicide

Officials say the death toll has risen to 31 in the collapse of a wooden bridge in the northeastern Indian district of Darjeeling.

One of India's most celebrated social institutions, the Calcutta Club, has sparked an angry backlash from the city's intelligentsia after refusing to allow entry to a Bengali painter who was wearing traditional clothes judged to be in breach of strict regulations.

A British spy turned arms dealer who nearly died in an Indian prison told a Copenhagen court yesterday how he was beaten and humiliated while serving a life sentence there.

The steamy city of Kolkata, where peeling walls have for decades been painted red with the symbol of the Hammer and Sickle, is set to turn green.

Four months ago, activists from the main communist party shot and killed nine people during a mass demonstration in Kolkata against young men being taken away to be taught how to handle guns.

Born 150 years ago, Rabindranath Tagore shone as writer, musician and activist to become the Bengali icon.

Sale Sharks have announced the signing of Scotland international back-row forward Richie Vernon.