Ace music composer Shantanu Moitra has roped in Bollywood’s popular female voice Shilpa Rao to belt out two numbers in the upcoming Bengali movie Projapoti Biskut. Directed byAnindya Chattopadhyay, this movie is set for a pujo release. The singer who was heard in movies like
West Bengal might soon get the first HAM radio centre of India. HAM radios can be extremely handy during natural disasters and big events like Gangasagar Mela when other forms of communication are not readily available. Once the centre comes up at the state secretariat,
Recently, scientists discovered a unique way to get rid of mosquitoes by feeding them sweets! Manufacturers claim, this insecticide can eliminate the entire mosquito population of an area at a go. The repellant contains a chemical, that creates a sweet odour, attracting scourges of mosquitoes
So here is some good news for music and food loving Bengalis. The iconic Hard Rock Café that started in London as a theme restaurant in 1971 and was later sold to a US company will be opening an outlet at the famous Park Mansion
Animation studies is fast catching up in India and rest of the world, and hundreds of jobs are being created each year in this sector. But an animation course in any standard private college is costly and usually out of bounds for students of lower
It was a peaceful Saturday morning with the Digha beach brimming with weekend tourists. Suddenly the peace was disturbed with two loud bangs. Blasts one after the other. The sounds were so deafening that tourists even left their hotels in Old Digha and came out
Munmun Mitra shares an experience of a private encounter with the head of Naga Sanyasis of Juna Akhara and questions why these religious gurus are so powerful in modern India? ‘Love is the only commodity, which increases while sharing
The fossil remains of a horned herbivorous reptile named as Shringasaurus Indicus has been unearthed by paleontologists and researchers from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. Belonging to the Triassic period, that preceded the Jurassic Age when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, this new reptile fossil
With judges of Supreme Court coming up recently with revolutionary verdicts one after another, the country surely looks up to them as a messiah. The highest court of India has now adopted an exclusive flag and plate which would be used for official purposes on
Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, took stock of the spiraling vegetable and flower prices ahead of the festive season and asked her officials to regularly monitor market prices. She has instructed them to check any price rise immediately. She took note from the florists, fishery