Time is ticking away as the world gears up for the 22nd edition of FIFA World Cup 2022, scheduled to kick off on Sunday, November 20, with the host country Qatar playing with Ecuador. Bengal’s obsession with the game is well-known and the state is
As the as the clock ticks away, FIFA World Cup fever grips football fans across the globe. Qatar, the tiny Gulf host nation, is busy checking up last-minute arrangements as it gears up to receive more than a million soccer fans for the international sport event. During the 29-day
Amodest resident of Durgapur has made his town and the country proud with his remarkable discovery and now his name appears in the coveted Guinness World Records Book 2022. Geologist Manas Bandopadhyay has created quite a stir globally by unearthing the world's largest uncut emerald. The emerald,
On 6th September 2019, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) launched Chandrayaan 2 for lunar exploration. Chandrayaan 2 is inscribed in the memories of every Indian, as everyone had high hopes though the landing did not go as planned. It consisted of mainly three things- Orbiter,
The season is changing in Kolkata. We are at a pre-winter phase. Winter-exclusive things such as nolengur (date palm jaggery), koraishuti (peas), badminton matches, picnics and many more make the season wholesome. Longer nights and shorter days, morning walks and many such routine activities beckon
Picture the scene. A girl is running frantically down the platform when the conductor’s whistle blows and the train starts chugging its way slowly out of the station. The girl races desperately to catch the train and then suddenly, a hand appears from one of
The Howrah Bridge moves like a gigantic scorpion, And Harrison Road follows it and proceeds along Rabindranath Tagore had penned this limerick when the twin cities of Calcutta and Howrah were connected by a pontoon or floating bridge, a precursor of the present Howrah Bridge, now
There were long serpentine queues at the Bangladesh film festival in Nandan on the inaugural day and the main attraction was a movie named “Hawa”. People were eagerly waiting for this movie even before the Bangladesh film festival started, which was proved by the record
Hon’ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday shared on Twitter that the West Bengal Government’s welfare scheme Lakshmir Bhandar has received the prestigious Skoch Award in the Women and Child Development category. Instituted in 2021, the scheme provides financial assistance to the women of deserving
Welebrated author/ film director Satyajit Ray’s immortal fictional private detective, Feluda has enamoured readers and film lovers for more than half-a-century and continues to do so even now. Various directors have presented Feluda without altering the essential core. In 2020, Srijit Mukherji directed two seasons