9th August 1975. People in Kolkata woke up to a headline: “Television comes to the grand old city.” And thus started the journey of Doordarshan Kendra Kolkata. As we celebrate the Foundation Day of Doordarshan Kolkata today, a missing cassette of Doordarshan Kendra Kolkata’s rare
His voice had a touch of boundless energy, youthful euphoria and a depth of pathos, that none in the centuries to come will probably ever have. And that too without formal grooming in music. Kishore Kumar arrived on the stage of Bollywood at an age
As India’s ace archer Deepika Kumari kept shouting and inspiring her husband from the stands of Tokyo Olympics this morning, India’s No. 1 Archer Atanu Das went on to cause a massive upset in the history of Olympic archery. He defeated 4-time Olympic medalist, Korea’s
A recent survey released by the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) shows that West Bengal is the only major state in India where girls students have exceeded the number of boys. Only three other states --- Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya have
West Bengal was the state that produced the first Indian ICS (Indian Civil Service) officers during the British era, later known as IAS (Indian Administrative Service). Unfortunately, for the past several decades, the number of IAS aspirants from West Bengal has been dwindling steadily. The
After the scorching heat of the summer months, monsoon is a harbinger of relief. But it is also the season when vector-borne diseases including malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis, scrub typhus, yellow fever and lymphatic filariasis thrive. Vector-borne diseases account for more than 17 per
His stories and movies were all about layered drama that weaved a magic and madness lifting them to the podium of world cinema. The only Indian director to get a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, Satyajit Ray, is still superbly relevant even on the online platform. Else
Probably that’s called dedication and a will to win the war against COVID-19. When most medical practitioners and doctors across the world are stressing upon vaccination being the only weapon to beat COVID-19, West Bengal government has set a precedence. Not only is it the
A few days ago, India was shocked and horrified to learn that nearly 100 unidentified bodies, many of them decomposed and bloated, had been found floating in the river Ganga, causing panic among residents of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh living near the river, because they
When any crisis strikes, what reigns supreme is how the community rises to the occasion, how humanity unfolds. A growing number of home chefs, cooks, helpful neighbours are coming together in West Bengal offering to feed COVID-19 patients and their caregivers in home isolation as