Unarmed farmers running through fields to save their lives, police firing point blank not aiming at their legs, but at their hearts and heads! A scene that was flashed on television sets across Bengal in 2007, that not only reflected gross human rights violation, but
The Nobel Prize Award ceremony starts at 2.30 pm IST and this year it’s a proud moment for India as Abhijit Banerjee who spent a sizeable portion of his school and university education in Kolkata will receive the Nobel Prize for Economics at Stockholm. Though
He had once said every time he returns to his alma mater IIT Kharagpur, he loves to travel by train and get down at the Kharagpur platform, admire it being the longest platform of Asia and just the way he did in his college days,
The century-old sherbet joint Paramount has witnessed many a storm, from surging prices and customer base complaining at times of fall in quality, to that of well-known revolutionaries from Bengal who used the joint as an undercover location for hatching plans against the British. Yet
This December Japanse Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be visit India and is scheduled to attend an annual summit at Guwahati along with Indian PM Narendra Modi. It is during this meet that a delegation of around 35 members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family
Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has showered praise on West Bengal government for taking intensive initiatives in the sphere of education. The Central Project Approval Board (PAB) was all praise for a bunch of initiatives launched by the state government recently. The West Bengal
Bollywood heartthrob Aamir Khan has landed in Kolkata to do an extensive shooting on Howrah Bridge for the upcoming movie ‘Laal Singh Chadda.’ Another hero Ajay Devgn had also done extensive shooting for Amit Sharma movie Maidan recently in Kolkata as it is based on
October 31, 1966, the world awaited with bated breath and looked in awe and admiration as a non-American youth attempted to swim and cross the entire length of the Panama Canal. The artificial 82 km waterway connects the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean. People wondered
Every winter, markets in Kolkata and elsewhere in Bengal are flooded with packets of Jaynagarer Moa, a seasonal Bengali sweet delicacy prepared specially from Date palm jaggery and Kanakchur khoi. For the kids of 70s and 80s, Joynagarer Moa has a special place as this
Every time you visit the Dilkhusha Cabin, you will certainly leave with a content heart. Dil Khush, your hungry stomach khush! Well, that’s what this almost 110-year-old restaurant does to your body and soul. Situated on College Street, that is more famous to tourists as