H.G. Wells and his Time Machine, not just highlighted shortcomings of human learning, but was an iconic science fiction that predicted how education in the wrong perspective can lead humans to turn robots. Wells met Nobel Laureate and great thinker, Rabindranath Tagore,in Geneva in June,
The Bengal government is pitching for a $4 billion (around 25,000 crores) Saudi investment in oil refinery and port projects. Saudi officials who met Bengal’s chief minister feel Bengal coast is a potential site for one of the two oil refineries they wish to set
The education department wants to start an English medium section in the Bengali medium government schools from primary section or Class I. Selected schools will start the English section soon and one class will be added every year. It is definitely a welcome move, and will
Bengal’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate a grand conference hall adjoining Nabanna today. The hall has a seating capacity of around 900 people. It has been built at a cost of 6.5 crores on a plot adjoining Nabanna bus stand. There is also a huge
Next time you go to Buxa Tiger Reserve in North Bengal, be prepared to stay outside the forest. And that’s for the good of the tigers. Too many hotels that were allowed to mushroom within the premises of the reserve had played havoc with the
A Rs 88 crore power generation plant that was under trial in Kolkata airport will soon be connected to the CESC grid and will become the largest source of alternative energy in the country. Setting up huge solar panel installations in the middle of a
Rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan made his foray in Bollywood with the MSG franchise, and if things had gone according to plan, he was looking to enter the Bengali film industry next. He was all set to launch a movie on Netaji Subhash
Speculation is rife that one of the world’s largest oil and natural gas companies, Aramco, owned by Saudi Arabia government, might soon invest in TCG run oil refineries of Haldia and also in some downstream projects of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. Representa-tives of the company that
Tollywood is currently inundated with bright sparks and ideas with directors willing to take risk and venture into areas not treaded so far. They are opening new vistas and the audience is definitely not complaining. The latest one to join this fray is Premangshu Roy’s 'Chilekotha'. 'Chilekotha'
