An all new look iconic Nandan will welcome visitors this Kolkata International Film Festival, with the line between ‘hip-happening’ and ‘surreal royalty’ blurring into the eons of time, as you step inside this state auditorium. Nandan needed this facelift for sure since the time it
The State Government eased Land Usage norms for North Bengal’s tea gardens that will help the industry to open doors to alternative revenue generation, including a flourishing tea tourism in the state. This will indeed give a big revenue boost to the tea industry that
West Bengal government has put a total ban on the manufacture, storage, distribution and sale of gutka and pan masala in the state for a year with effect from November 7. The decision was taken keeping in mind the harmful effects of tobacco and nicotine-based
Researchers Pratik Mukherjee and Jitendra Malik create Artificial Intelligence to accurately detect even the most complex brain haemorrhage cases to save lives within seconds. The AI system has been developed by the duo and their teams from UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley. The AI
Like any other suburban girl, Sarmistha Chakraborty who was brought up in Midnapore, did not get much chance to showcase her talents in a beauty pageant till she got married. But she always had the dream to win a beauty queen. And her dreams came
Bay of Bengal is rising at an alarming rate, 3.6 times faster than Arabian Sea. Low lying areas like Behala and Salt Lake will face prolonged flooding each year! There will be influx of climate refugees! Well, these are not pages out of an Apocalyptic Movie
The first phase of infrastructure development of the historic Bhramri Devi temple of North Bengal is complete and the inauguration took place recently. This famous Shakti Peeth is a revered site for pilgrims in North Bengal, located on the fringes of the Baikunthapur forest, around
First it was cricket sensation Kapil Dev. Next it was Iranian football sensation Majid Bishkar. If reports are to be believed now it is turn of none other than Dabaang hero Salman Khan to grace the centenary celebrations of East Bengal at Kolkata’s Maidan. Already
The virtual end of an era of British groomed Indian Civil Service (ICS) officers of India came to an end with the death of the last ICS of 1944 batch, Monishi Sen. He died just 51 days short of his 100th birthday. The ICS officers
Well, some tales seem like fairy tales. Those that never were supposed to happen. But they did and human success stories like that of Santiniketan’s Pushparani are not just business models, but tales of inspiration indeed. She is 78 years if age and always loved