Veteran actor and our all time favourite Soumitro Chatterjee had been admitted to Ruby General Hospital this morning with severe respiratory distress. Doctors said he is suffering from pneumonia and had to be kept in the ICU. A medical board has been made with four well
When Rabindranath Tagore turned 50, his friends and family at Joransanko Thakurbari, celebrated it in a big way. Hemendrakumar Tagore’s daughter, Pragya Devi had cooked ‘kobishombordhona barfi,’ a special sweet for welcoming Tagore. Pragya Devi loved experimenting with recipes and even brought in Bengali menu
You probably need to conduct routine blood tests from a laboratory regularly to check your sugar levels, haemoglobin and other important parameters of blood. And every time you need reports, you have to either go to the laboratory to give your blood or ask someone
He is often called a music, theatre and film activist. But Devajit Bandopadhyay would love to be known as a music researcher and performer. And indeed he is so, trying relentlessly to bring in lost notations and papers on music and songs from abroad for
Buckland Bridge has been an integral part of the historic past of Howrah since 86 years. But now it will be no more as a recently conducted examination on the health of the bridge states it needs to be demolished as it can no more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Gi_LqEdDM It seems monsoon clouds have not just brought rains to Kolkata at last, but a new message from the land of Bengal to everyone across the globe, who love this land that has welcomed all down centuries! The Bengal Store, the newly launched E-commerce venture
The ever argumentative Bengalis love controversies and even their rachis are testimony to the same. Whole-sale Rakhi Bazars of districts and Kolkata re now selling Modi Rakhis and Didi Rakhis. Though Rakhi is primarily a sister-brother festival where usually cartoon rakhis, flower rakhis or simple
If we are today looking at state-of-the art bio-toilets on trains, we can recall the name of one Bengali, who thought for the first time how to build toilet facilities on long distance trains. Akhilchandra Sen was far ahead of his times and had brought
Bigger and better models of Electric AC buses to hit Kolkata streets this August. This is indeed an encouraging news in the face of increasing environmental pollution that is a serious concern in Kolkata over past few years. West Bengal Transport Corporation has an ambitious
Teachers at BC Roy Engineering College of Durgapur are excited as 11 of their students from the Mechanical Engineering Department have made them proud. They have invented a low cost solar energy operated pump that will not only help to draw groundwater for various tubewells