Ace photographer Vivek Das has turned to a new assignment, one that he has never done before. He has converted a handful of mentally challenged women who used to wander on city streets or were abandoned, into models. It is indeed an achievement for the
With the festive season around the corner, the hills of Bengal should have been gearing up to entertain hordes of Bengali tourists, who flock for a view of the Kanchenjungha in September-October. The tourist footfall during this time last year was around 2.20 lakh and
A joint study on how to preserve the heritage of Rabindranath Tagore's abode in Santiniketan will soon be conducted by architecture students from IIT Kharagpur and School of Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A group of 6-8 students, at graduate and
With the Hills burning and the Gorkhaland protest movement turning violent every day, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is undergoing immense loss. UNESCO has been following the violence closely and have expressed concern at how protesters are targeting railway stations and even burning them down. If
With the quality of food served on Indian Railways going down every year, authorities have decided to go for a price rise and ensure quality food. Indian Railways also aims at increasing their own revenue in the process. A high-level committee has asked for a
Tollywood heart-throb Dev is planning to seek permission to shoot a movie based on the lives and sacrifices of three freedom fighters at the iconic red bricked building of Writers’. The three prominent freedom fighters Benoy Basu, Badal Gupta and Dinesh Gupta had fought the
Kolkata’s only government multi-speciality hospital SSKM will now be at par with institutions like AIIMS, PGI Chandigarh and even Medanta. Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, ensured the hospital’s radiology department gets a 14-crore worth super-advanced CT scan machine. This machine known as ‘Multi-detector dual energy
A six-minute film by an SRFTI student has made it to the short film festival in Los Angeles. The film named Cow made by student Ashok Moorthy, addresses the new trend in India of forcing food habits on people. Moorthy, a mechanical engineer who did his
The wholesale markets are brimming with activity even after midnight. News of fishing trawlers anchoring at Namkhana, Kakdweep, Raidighee, Frasergunj and Pathorpratima ports loaded with hilsa has triggered a flurry of activities. The sellers are working overtime to reach the city's retail market as soon
Uma Rajan, Senior co-ordinator of Birla High School, Calcutta, pens down her feelings for the ‘City of Joy.’ As a four-month-old baby, I came to Calcutta. My father worked in Dunlop which was on Free School Street. I grew up in the city and the city