Howrah resident Soma Dolui was admitted to Calcutta Medical College with 4th stage lung cancer. She was in a precarious state and most doctors had given up hope. She had a malignant tumour in her lungs that had spread to her liver and also her
Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal took to Twitter to announce that India’s first underwater metro will soon start functioning that is being built under Kolkata’s Hooghly river. “India’s first underwater train will soon start running under the Hooghly River in Kolkata. This train is an
After almost 122 days, she gained consciousness. And that too after classical music therapy. Beraphool Bibi of Malda was 45 years old when suddenly she started getting terrible headaches. Little did she know it was due to slow and gradual haemorrhage in her brain that
Kolkata was always known to be a city where the standard of living was affordable. But now prices seem to be rising and even a pice hotel meal of fish or chicken costs more than Rs 30. Keeping in mind the low-income group labourers, workers,
He was one of the foremost poets of Kallol Yug, the post Tagore era, when poets wrote more of protest poems against the social atrocities, voicing out their resentments. Shakti Chattopadhyay not just revolted through his creations, but he was also a rebel in his
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Last Sunday a group of foreign students and volunteers were seen cleaning the Mullick Ghat, slightly downstream from Howrah Bridge. Hundreds of such volunteers who are a part of the clean up project funded by Lochie Burke, co-founder of an Australian company, were working along
The Rail Board has finally passed an order to run two high-class, expensive, high-speed private trains from Howrah. One will be between Howrah-Delhi and the other between Howrah-Mumbai. They will have a speed of 160 km/ hour! Laying of special tracks to accommodate such high
Jadavpur University’s School of Cultural Texts and Records has taken up a mammoth task of recording the evolution of every Bengali word. These words will then be compiled into an online dictionary known as Shabdakalpa. This project is first of its kind in any Indian
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