Nearly 40 percent of all road accidents in West Bengal are caused by speeding. In other words, unsafe driving. On the West Bengal Traffic Police website, a message from Supratim Sarkar, ADG Traffic & Road Safety, says driver error is the single most important factor
Image Courtesy - Reetwika Banerjee Chandraketugarh is an archaeological site located beside the Bidyadhari River, about 35 kilometres north-east of Kolkata in North 24 Parganas, near Berachampa and Haroa Road railhead. Chandraketugarh was discovered by accident during construction work of adjacent roads. The artefacts that surfaced
Tram is identified as one of the unique icons of Kolkata today. Tram service was introduced in the city way back in 1873. Horse-driven trams travelled from Sealdah to Armenian Ghat then. Though the vehicles were meant for passengers, they also carried goods. These used
If Enid Blyton’s Famous Five was every child’s bedtime book in the 80s and early 90s, Shashtipada Chattopadhyay’s Pandab Goenda thought to be based on the Famous Five model was also every Bengali child’s favourite. It was like waiting for the next Anandamela or Shuktara
They are ‘Friends of Elephants’ or Gaja Mitras who will protect, love and guide the mammoth animals to safety and ensure that their dwindling numbers do not lead to their extinction. To end the Human Pachyderm Conflict in West Bengal that at times leads to
Most of us have heard people say, “It’s just not in the cards for me to …” when things didn’t work out the way they planned but when someone “holds all the cards,” he or she is in charge of a situation. City teenager Arnav
Imagine ladies running in a saree. And why not? If sprint challenges, short and long-distance runs are the order of the day and are being made popular in the urban circles with competitions thrown in, then why not a ‘Run in a Saree?’ The woman
Twelve years ago, in 2011 when Mamata Banerjee assumed power in West Bengal, the state’s outstanding debt was around Rs 1, 92,000 crores. Hon’ble Chief Minister Banerjee and the then-Finance Minister and now Economic Adviser to CM, Amit Mitra, called it “a huge burden to
Nakashipara in West Bengal’s Nadia district may soon become a model for the rest of the country if a NITI Aayog recommendation is anything to go by. National Institute for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of
On February 28, 1928, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman announced to the world the path breaking joint discovery with Sir KS Krishnan that was to become known as the ‘Raman Effect’ – a discovery that continues to have a profound impact on modern telecommunications, spectroscopy, remote