A fresh row surrounding Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s death has started recently after the film Gumnaami is set to release soon. In the middle of all this, to put an end to the controversy, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s daughter Anita Bose Pfaff wrote a letter
She has fought gender bias at every step and today 66-year-old Chandrima Shaha becomes the first Indian woman to hold the post of President-elect of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). What is even more inspiring is that Shaha was also the vice-captain of West
Lady Diana had a different take on life, despite being born into royalty and married to one of the most popular and sought after royal families of Europe, she was the ‘People’s Princess.’ In the later years of her life, she had dedicated her time
India’s Chandrayaan II is finally up! In another few weeks it will land on moon and India will be the first nation to have sent the satellite to moon’s southern hemisphere. In all probability it will reach the moon’s southern hemisphere by September. The team
She usually uses the code 006 beside her usernames --- yes, you got it correct, a similar code 007 was used by James Bond, known for his steely grit. Tanisha Dutta Roy is known for her courage too. Originally from West Bengal, she made Bengaluru
She comes from Bengal’s land of red soil, often branded as the less developed district of Purulia. Yet Abhinanda Ghosh, who is a student in Class IX of a local English Medium Purulia school has proved if you can dream, you can achieve. Leaving behind
Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL) housed at ICCR, Kolkata, initiated a pathbreaking enterprise of foregrounding Bangla Dalit Literature on the evening of 10th Au-gust, 2019. With the lighting of the lamp of knowledge as a witness to the inaugural session, Sri Gautam De, Regional
Here is some good news for innumerable snake bite victims of Bengal and India. Professor Subhamoy Panda of Asansol’s Gupta College of Technological Sciences has successfully isolated anti-venom from oranges. He has also been awarded at the state science congress for his path-breaking discovery. He has
All over the world Parsi New Year celebrations of Nowruz or Navroz starts on the day of the vernal equinox that is the moment the sun crosses the celestial equator and equalizes night and day. That is as per Iranian calendar around March 21. However,
It was in 2008 that Moumita was reading about India’s first lunar probe, Chandrayaan 1, sitting in her hometown, Kolkata. This was a news that had indeed inspired her as she wanted to be a part of such missions someday. Today, Moumita Dutta is a