Since the beginning of the Covid-19 second wave in India from mid-February this year, about 800 doctors have died of the virus. This terrible piece of data was announced by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) in the build-up to National Doctors’ Day, which is observed
The West Bengal government has launched ‘Lakshmi Bhandar’, an initiative by the Hon'ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, is a scheme to provide financial assistance to women heads of families during the Covid-19 pandemic, when livelihoods have shrunk, particularly in rural areas. The new scheme is
“West Bengal has topped the list of Indian states in terms of skill development. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made this announcement at a press conference in Nabanna earlier this week. She also announced that six of the country’s top 10 Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) are
“It was a sunny summer afternoon and a little after five o’clock we were at our destination: a sprawling villa in Stadtbergen, a suburb of the city of Augsburg in Bavaria, southern Germany. In the entrance hall we were greeted by Anita and the family.
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
A recent letter stirred the hornet’s nest, not above the world’s highest peak, but down below in the world of mountaineering. Kalyan Chakraborty, Secretary of the Radhanath Sikdar Himalayan Museum, wrote a letter to the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) Principal that said: ‘At the order
In the world’s largest democracy, gender equality is still a distant dream. A patriarchal mindset is still evident, and derogatory comments about women in politics are rife on social media, Sexist remarks are regularly directed at women who contest elections, whether about their appearance, clothing
Our world as we knew it changed drastically in January 2020, when Covid-19 made its global appearance. This may seem like stating the obvious, but life in Covid times has become so normalised that perhaps we need to step back a little occasionally, just so
With the BJP being confined to less than 1o0 seats in the recent Assembly elections, Mamata Banerjee’s stock has risen in the eyes of the nation, particularly among democratic-minded citizens. As we all know, nature abhors a vacuum. The more inadequate the Congress proves in
On May 16, the day the Government of West Bengal announced a preliminary 15-day semi-lockdown, the number of new Covid-19 cases as reported by the Health & Family Welfare Department was 19,117. That brought the total number of active cases in the state up until