Porabari is a hamlet in the Tangail district of Bangladesh, on the banks of the Dhaleshwari River. It was a prosperous business centre, since the era of the British Raj. This place is famous not only as a business centre but also being the birthplace
Fables are always a kid’s favourite and so are fantasy movies. Fantasy movies based on folk tales are now an attractive section of the film industry with a great appeal to children and their learning years. Nitish Roy’s dream project ‘Buddhu Bhutum’s trailer and poster
His father is a poor farmer of a lesser known village of Birbhum. His elder brother is a school teacher and younger brother despite being MA Bed helps his father in farming. And the middle brother Bijay Kumar Dai makes the whole nation proud as
Muharram is all about self-penance and bloodshed. But with blood being one of the most precious part of human life with many blood banks going dry and many places suffering a scarcity of blood, the Muharram committees in Aushgram have decided to celebrate it in
Plastic menace is the primary concern for all major cities of Bengal particularly for overcrowded cities like Siliguri. Plastics thrown anywhere and everywhere are not just leading to land pollution, but also clogging drains. Under such circumstances two NGOs of Siliguri have come up with
Bengal’s lifeline has always revolved around two passions --- movies and sweets. And when the twain meet, the joy is knows no bounds. As the intellectual capital of India celebrates 100 years of Bengali cinema, the sweetmakers of the city have come up with innovative
India could launch its first ever Mission to study the Sun -- Aditya L1 – as soon as 2020. There are many unknown facts that scientists across the world still do not know about the Sun and Aditya 1 spacecraft that will orbit 1.5 million
For those who love palaces and flowers in all their hues, Murshidabad’s Kathgola Palace is their ideal destination. Popularly known as the Kath Gola Bagan, the garden harbours a four storeyed grand palace, a sprawling garden of roses and a temple that has a 900-year-old
Imagine a 60-year-old Sabyasachi Chakraborty playing the role of Feluda at the age of 60! Well, he did it and he did it with elan. Though the fictional sleuth created by Satyajit Ray was actually a young detective, suave, smart and intelligent. But Sabyasachi matched
Girish Chandra Sen was a Bengali religious scholar and translator. He was a Brahmo Samaj missionary and known for being the first translator of the Qur'an into Bengali language in 1886. Sen taught for a short while at Mymensingh Zilla School before engaging in journalism