Santa Claus is coming to town in an hour’s time! One of the largest Christmas carnivals of India is all set to start today along the city’s iconic hip and happening Park Street, with West Bengal Chief Minister Hon’ble Mamata Banerjee lighting the candles of
Christmas season surrounds us with an air of festivities and irresistible excitement. In every part of the world, people gear up for Christmas, spreading love, lighting candles, homecoming, gifts, and of course hundreds of sweet delicacies that this festival has to offer. Christmas plum cake
It’s often said that tea can make you forget the din of the world. Tourists at Ayodhya Hills might soon be welcomed to a treat of refreshing tea coming from the surrounding hills itself. The authorities of Purulia District have been considering possibilities of new
Je radhe, shey chul-o badhe (the woman who cooks, also knows how to make her hair look good)… in other words a woman is a superwoman who does all kinds of chores. This was a very common sentence often used by our mothers and grandmothers.
If you talk about the obsession of the Bengali bhodrolok, Ilish Mach or Hilsa simply tops the list. It plays an indispensable role in our daily life. During monsoons, any Bengali kitchen seems incomplete without the presence of the ‘queen of fish.’ The state government
Digha has always been a common man’s budget tourist destination. Bengalis just rush to Digha in search of halcyon days whenever the urban life seems monotonous to them. But soon this destination will get a new feather in the cap! Chief Minister Mamata Banerji wants
Jaynagar does not just come in the headlines for political fights. It also happens to have sent more than 350 girls of the marginalized communities, many of whom participated in the Magic Bus Football Tournament. When the rest of India is making a poor show
Alipore Zoo is having a tough time with its tiger population, not because of diseases or their behavior, but simply because the tigresses are refusing to mate! Finally, the zoo authorities have decided to bring in five-year-old Snehashish from North Bengal to break the jinx.
Amina was a 16-year-old young student of Dhaka when she was picked up from her house by Pakistani troops. What went on with her after that, would beat any horror film. The repeated gangrapes and the horrific torture that Pakistan played on lakhs of women
SAHELI MITRA & SREEMOYEE BHATTACHARYA She is best known as someone who crossed the English Channel, and then turned a national and international swimmer, at a time when most in India could not even think of taking up swimming as a sport. Today, she looks a