Bengal is obsessed with football and Kolkata is crazy about the sport. The love for football knows no boundaries in Kolkata. Apart from the fanatical following enjoyed by archrivals East Bengal and Mohun Bagan, Kolkata lives and breathes football, and teams across the world are
West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee’s dream of creating a clean Kolkata received a fresh impetus with the Fire Brigade department all set to launch special cleanliness drive in the city. Making the city clean and green has been given top priority by the state
The plains of Bengal’s Murshidabad may seem an unlikely place to grow apples, but that’s not an impediment for the district administration from giving it a shot. Around 20 men from Sagardighi in Murshidabad district had migrated to Kashmir, looking for employment. Most of them,
Haat boshechhe shukrobare bakshiganj e padma paarey…. The famous lines of Rabindranath Tagore’s Sahaj Path, celebrating the myriad hues of a rural marketplace of Bengal. Such haats have the rustic charm of the state’s simple village folk, as they buy and sell in these weekly
The whole of India is waiting for the feat to happen. Once successfully launched from Sriharikota, Chandrayan II will in all probability reach the moon’s southern hemisphere by September. The team of scientists who made this unthinkable happen, is incidentally headed by two women –
Soon after crossing Algarah Bazaar, just one sharp hilly bend and we were suddenly in the middle of a thick canopy of cedar and pine wood. Landscape changes so fast here. This was the Munsong Forest. There are no luxury hotels in Munsong, but it
A report published in 1896 in the Daily Chronicle of England could be a valuable eye-catcher to all those in the Nobel committee that ignored Acharya Jagadish Bose because he was an Indian scientist in British India. It read: ‘The inventor (J.C. Bose) has transmitted
Bengali has been officially named as the second most-spoken language in London, followed by Polish and Turkish - with around 165,311 London residents speaking one of the three as their first language. Less than one in 10 Brits (8%) can fluently speak a second language, which
Mocambo, Shiraz, Dilkhusha Cabin, Eau Chew Restaurant, Paramount, Kwality Restaurant, KC Das, Allen Kitchen, Girish Chandra Dey & Nakur Chandra Nandi, Nabin Chandra Das, Bhim Nag…. The list continues. If you have dropped in at any of these eateries of Kolkata one time or the
Latest QS World University Rankings Asia 2020 released on November 27 has given 1st position to Jadavpur University among 200 state universities of India including technology institutes. Earlier, Calcutta University had also received this rank ahead of JU, but the parameters were different then. In the