Groups of women across several remote villages in the Sundarbans have added one more task to their long list of daily chores. Besides cooking, taking care of the family and keeping their mud huts tidy, they venture out to catch lobsters and crabs in the
Renowned American businessman and entrepreneur James Cash Penney once said, “Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.”Knowingly or unknowingly, that is the philosophy that seems to motivate most homestay owners. In India, the ‘homestay movement’, as it were, probably had its genesis in Kerala.
Another feather on West Bengal Government’s e-initiatives. E-Samadhan, the online public grievance address system directly linked to The West Bengal CMO’s office has received the prestigious and highest Digital India Platinum Award from Skoch Foundation at the 66th Skoch Summit on Thursday in New Delhi.
Nearly two decades ago, in September 1999, researchers at Cornell University, USA, published a report titled, ‘Will Limits of the Earth’s Resources Control Human Numbers?’ In other words, how large a population can the earth reasonably support, so that everyone can live relatively prosperous, healthy
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange A little boy was fascinated by the art of photography when he realized the immense power of the medium to capture a moment for posterity. He was drawn into the mysterious
It was 31st July 1995. Exactly 25 years ago, the first mobile call of India was made right here from Kolkata, and that too from the seat of power, Writer’s Building. The then Chief Minister Late Jyoti Basu spoke to Union Telecom Minister Sukhram. And
This is a success story of replantation for sure. The 100-year-old iconic Baobab Tree that stood like a giant at the Shibpur Botanical Gardens is successfully back on its roots, thanks to the tireless efforts of scientists. It was partially uprooted during Cyclone Amphan and
Achievers from Bengal have always topped the list and now our city-bred IT professional Ambarish Ganguly has been chosen as a NASA Citizen Scientist. He has already bagged eight Data Science Competition Awards (One of them sponsored by NASA and the rest by Kaggle, a
A stone’s throw from the expansive greens of the Royal Calcutta Turf Club in the Hastings area of Kolkata, is the neighbourhood of Kavitirtha Sarani. It meanders close to the river bank on the southern fringe of Kidderpore. Earlier, this area was called Watgunge and
When the dreams of noon were not even ripe, the clouds came bursting whipping the flail of a lightning. That was the urban cape of Kolkata, interspersed with high-rises and bungalows, with slums and water-bodies, with urban jungles and romantic Maidan. Monsoon in Kolkata is