When the number of qualified engineers getting jobs is diminishing throughout India, Bengal has topped in recruiting qualified engineers and IT professionals. As per the latest report published in All India Council for Technical Education, which happens to be a central organisation, Bengal has set
Kolkata Port just turned 150 years! And we cannot keep calm as the famous port might be even older. As per the pages of history, Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb granted trading rights to the British and a big hold on the port. As the power to rule
The West Bengal government plans to set up co-living places through joint venture to help IT professionals and entrepreneurs who land up in the city enjoy affordable and shared housing facilities, particularly in the Rajarhat-New-Town area. In an recent event Debashis Sen, Additional Chief Secretary,
The year was 1995. Zafuran Nessa was unwell. It was well past midnight and she was restless. Her family realized she needed immediate medical care, but they lived in Dhalabari, a remote village of Jalpaiguri district and nearest health centre was a little over 40
He was one of the most prominent architects of modern science in India. He was a physicist of international repute and his theory of thermal ionization was a path-breaking dimension in astrophysics. Yes, we are talking of Bengali scientist Meghnad Saha. Even today his equations
Here is some good news for techies who wish to stay back in Kolkata. Global Consultancy giant PwC is setting up a Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence in Kolkata. This facility is expected to employ around 1,200 people, besides building Internet of Things (IoT)
Historian Ramchandra Guha becomes the 3rd Indian to get the prestigious Foreign Member Award from USA! When? Where? A recent tweet shared by well-known historian Ramachandra Guha reveals how he conquered the USA academic circles. Guha got the prestigious ‘Honorary Foreign Member Award’ from the American
She has fought with destiny, with poverty, lack of education, confinement during the Indo-Chinese War of 1962, yet she is a superwoman and known as the Don of Tangra! Monica Liu is not just another Chinese grandmother from Kolkata, but is one of the most
Her spine was bent like the first bracket. Let alone going out, 16-year-old Debashmita (name changed) even had a difficult time trying to put on her clothes every day and had no other alternative but to shed tears daily out of the pain she suffered
A Bengali poetry book in the middle of an Australian Desert! This 18th century book when discovered was first thought to be a version of Quran but thanks to Bangladeshi academician who travelled all the way to the desert, it was realised the unearthed book