Son of an alcoholic auto-driver, brother to school dropouts, Ansar Shaikh cracked IAS exam at the age of 21, after working in tea-stalls. Now as the SDO of Dinhata, Ansar plans to help youths of rural Bengal to follow their dreams and achieve the unachievable!
She was the founder of the first women’s organisation of India. Sarala Devi was an exceptional woman and her Bharat Stree Mahamandal was nothing short of a feminist movement that we saw across the globe during different decades. Born on 9th September 1872 to a
Lovely clay dolls, king and queen, or just an elephant or a domestic cow. Remembering those putuls we played with as kids? Well, these clay dolls are different as they have plant seeds within them that will be spread and grow into trees when the
West Bengal government has put a total ban on the manufacture, storage, distribution and sale of gutka and pan masala in the state for a year with effect from November 7. The decision was taken keeping in mind the harmful effects of tobacco and nicotine-based
Researchers Pratik Mukherjee and Jitendra Malik create Artificial Intelligence to accurately detect even the most complex brain haemorrhage cases to save lives within seconds. The AI system has been developed by the duo and their teams from UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley. The AI
Like any other suburban girl, Sarmistha Chakraborty who was brought up in Midnapore, did not get much chance to showcase her talents in a beauty pageant till she got married. But she always had the dream to win a beauty queen. And her dreams came
Bay of Bengal is rising at an alarming rate, 3.6 times faster than Arabian Sea. Low lying areas like Behala and Salt Lake will face prolonged flooding each year! There will be influx of climate refugees! Well, these are not pages out of an Apocalyptic Movie
Somendra Mohan Ghosh is an environmentalist and green technologist based in Kolkata New research report released yesterday sends an alarming data. Kolkata and its suburbs will be affected by regular annual flooding by 2050 affecting millions of people who will lose their homes and livelihood. Already
The virtual end of an era of British groomed Indian Civil Service (ICS) officers of India came to an end with the death of the last ICS of 1944 batch, Monishi Sen. He died just 51 days short of his 100th birthday. The ICS officers
Well, some tales seem like fairy tales. Those that never were supposed to happen. But they did and human success stories like that of Santiniketan’s Pushparani are not just business models, but tales of inspiration indeed. She is 78 years if age and always loved