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'
It was that fateful car crash on August 31, 1997 that killed one of the most iconic yet human face of England’s royal family, Princess Diana. She was so much like one of us, we still can relate to her sufferings as a wife, a
City made jewelry will soon bag the GI tag and will be known as Kolkatti, to reflect the geographical region from where they originated. A GI is a name or sign used on certain products that correspond to a specific geographical location or origin, which
