As many as 32,000 primary and upper primary teachers to get jobs by this year in West Bengal. This is indeed good news in the times of Pandemic when across India many are losing jobs. Here in Bengal on the contrary they are getting jobs.
One of West Bengal's oldest settlements has become one of the first to successfully implement the state government's 'Duare Vaccine' programme announced by Hon'ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. We are talking about Chandannagar assembly constituency, where MLA and minister Shri Indranil Sen has taken the
Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic has taken over our lives, the definition of what is normal has changed almost daily. We all know that this will pass one day, as all clouds do. Meanwhile, what we still can do is to take small steps towards
The beginning of this story goes back nearly 135 years, to the year 1888. At Shimla, perhaps the most British of all Indian hill stations, Sir Mortimer Durand, the Foreign Secretary in charge of India from 1884-94, was recovering from illness. As he lay in
Within weeks of coming to power for a third term, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has officially inaugurated the second phase of the West Bengal government’s ‘Krishak Bandhu’ scheme, intended as a boost to the state’s agricultural sector. On Thursday itself, several farmers received the stipulated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXN7eoiG9CI Travellers to and from Sikkim have long been aware of the hardships involved in covering the last mile from West Bengal to Sikkim in particular, from Sevoke (or Sivok) onward. The entire burden of traffic is borne by a single road route, which sometimes becomes
OWhen was India’s National Anthem first sung in British India? Rabindranath Tagore’s poem/song “Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka” was sung publicly at the 26th annual national convention of Indian National Congress, held in Calcutta between December 26 and 28, 1911. The song became mired in controversy
The West Bengal Government has drawn up a Rs 120-crore East Kolkata Wetland Management Plan to save the “lungs and kidney” of the city, said Mr. Vivek Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Forest and Environment, Government of West Bengal, at a programme organized by
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZA1XDtdWZ4 U nder the inspiration of Hon'ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a statewide Covid-19 vaccination programme for tourism and hospitality sector professionals was inaugurated at the Park Hotel in Kolkata today, in the presence of Shri Indranil Sen, Minister, Tourism and Information and Cultural Affairs, along with
“Other than dessert, I don’t think there is anything you can’t do with ilish,” declares Subhajit Bhattacharya who, along with his business partner Amit Ghosh Dastidar, has founded an initiative called ‘Lost & Rare Recipes – Kitchen Tales’. As the title suggests, theirs is an