Bengal’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate a grand conference hall adjoining Nabanna today. The hall has a seating capacity of around 900 people. It has been built at a cost of 6.5 crores on a plot adjoining Nabanna bus stand. There is also a huge
Next time you go to Buxa Tiger Reserve in North Bengal, be prepared to stay outside the forest. And that’s for the good of the tigers. Too many hotels that were allowed to mushroom within the premises of the reserve had played havoc with the
A Rs 88 crore power generation plant that was under trial in Kolkata airport will soon be connected to the CESC grid and will become the largest source of alternative energy in the country. Setting up huge solar panel installations in the middle of a
Rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan made his foray in Bollywood with the MSG franchise, and if things had gone according to plan, he was looking to enter the Bengali film industry next. He was all set to launch a movie on Netaji Subhash
Speculation is rife that one of the world’s largest oil and natural gas companies, Aramco, owned by Saudi Arabia government, might soon invest in TCG run oil refineries of Haldia and also in some downstream projects of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. Representa-tives of the company that
It was that fateful car crash on August 31, 1997 that killed one of the most iconic yet human face of England’s royal family, Princess Diana. She was so much like one of us, we still can relate to her sufferings as a wife, a
City made jewelry will soon bag the GI tag and will be known as Kolkatti, to reflect the geographical region from where they originated. A GI is a name or sign used on certain products that correspond to a specific geographical location or origin, which
Did your cell phones often lost connectivity while the train passed through metro tunnels and only got restored once you reached the stations? Now, it will no more get lost. You will be able to have a chat even while you are travelling on the
After Eco Park and innumerable other nature parks cropping up here and there in Bengal, another innovative Park is soon to come up. Gems and Jewelry Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) has proposed to set up an integrated jewelry park in the state. They have agreed
Special units of commandos in police forces will now get a chance to use sniper rifles ‘Made in Bengal.’ So long they were trained with snipers imported from Germany or Russia like those made by Heckler and Koch and they would cost three times of