The Mid Day meal scheme has been a grand success in Bengal compared to the rest of India, for its successful implementation. But to give it a hygienic angle, primary schools in Burdwan will soon get machine cooked midday meals. Keeping the nutrition intact, these
Travelling to Bangladesh will now turn easier with recently launched Benapole Express. People from West Bengal can cross the Petrapole border and avail the intercity train, Benapole Express connecting Dhaka with Benapole. Passengers will have to pay 10 percent extra more than the original rent
Normally, sanitary napkins are made of imported cotton or wood cellulose. But now they will be made of jute! These low-cost jute based sanitary napkins have been developed by Indian Jute Industries Research Association (IJIRA) at Kolkata and now on the verge of commercial production,
It was a different morning at Santiniketan. It was July 25, 1941, when Rabindranath Tagore left his abode of peace for the last time, never to return again. He also left behind fond memories of seventy long years. That day he was dressed up and
The flowing Ichhamati always had a romantic appeal. No wonder it has featured in many iconic movies, literature and even played a crucial role in uniting the two sides of Bengal. But that very river is dying, a slow and painful death and when India
He loved playing with toy rockets as a child and would often sit to assemble its parts to make a new one. Probably that child’s play had a bigger inspiration in store for Souresh Pal of Katwa. Son of a physics teacher of a semi-urban
We have so long heard of Monica Batra, India’s reigning queen of Table Tennis. But the Commonwealth Table Tennis saw a new rising star, Bengal’s Aihika Mukherjee who went on to become the first Indian woman to win a gold in singles event. The games
Are you looking for a government job? Utkarsh Bangla, is a state government programme which is here to convert your dream into reality. The state government will soon be appointing people in their multiple vacant posts on the basis of a one-year contract. However, this
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
Remember the Birdman of India, Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, popularly known as Salim Ali? Well, Bengal’s Krishnanagar has its own Salim Ali, in 82-year-old Amaresh Kumar Mitra. Mitra is a trader who deals in eggs of various birds and even exotic ones and has no