As the world watched the terrorist attack of serial stabbing on London Bridge last week with several injured and two killed, probably Calcuttans did not know that the Scotland Yard officer who led the counter-terrorism operations in this attack and nabbed the criminal saving further
Here is some good news for patients and their families who so long had to stand in long queues in government run medical colleges to collect test reports. It was really an ordeal for many of them come from various districts and spend almost the
Remember the iconic Billy Ocean’s song -- When the going gets tough/ The tough get going/ When the going gets rough/ The tough get rough. Every time you glance at the shy but determined face of Pintu Mahato, this song invariably comes to mind. The innocence
The state government is giving away low-cost flats to the low-income group so that everyone has a decent home that they can call their own. Since 2011 under government schemes around 1 lakh 75,000 flats were made out of which 60-70% were given to the
Yes, you heard it right. A species of mollusks found in the creeks of Sundarbans, might be an answer to the future of cancer therapy. A group of scientists from Bengal has developed an extract derived from these snails, that can act as an alternate
Amidst the Benaras Hindu University controversy, Bengal has successfully upheld the secular fabric of the nation by appointing a Muslim Professor to teach Sanskrit. Unlike the BHU brethren, Ramkrishna Mission Vidymandira at Belur Math has appointed Ramzan Ali as a member of the Sanskrit faculty
Now aspiring engineers from Bengali medium will also get a chance to write their JEE (Main) examinations in Bengali. To be effective from January 2021, the HRD ministry has directed the National Testing Agency to prepare for conducting the examination in 11 vernacular languages including
Remember Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay? The genius doctor who despite creating world’s 2nd test Tube baby while experimenting here in Kolkata, was heckled by his colleagues and repeatedly transferred? None recognised his feat in those days and Dr Mukhopadhyay was forced to commit suicide. In memory
It’s true that some of the very best ideas in human history were imagined by visionaries and it is often their giant stature that overshadows everything and everyone around them. Take for instance, the case of Dr Ronald Ross, the British physician who received the
It was indeed a terrible saga in the political history of West Bengal, much macabre than the pangs of partition that Bengal had seen in 1947. Nearly 1,700 refugees from East Pakistan were massacred by police and communist cadres during Jyoti Basu’s rule in Bengal.