Every year Skoch Foundation, one of the leading thinktanks of the country honours the best innovative projects of different state governments across the country. This year Bengal has bagged the top six awards in different categories from economic to agriculture. Most innovative projects showcased by
He often has to fly down from Max Hospital in Delhi to Kolkata, to perform complex transplant surgeries in the city. But renowned transplant surgeon Subhash Gupta feels Bengal’s state run hospitals have also made a giant leap in providing transplant surgery facilities, though there
The Bengal government is spending a whooping 27 crore to buy just 1.2 acre of private plot in Burdwan, to build an approach road to a four-lane cable suspension bridge over railway tracks, that will connect the GT road to Katwa and Kalna. This is
Can a lost genre of folk music mourning the mysterious disappearance of men in ‘RangoomRangeela’ or Myanmar, relate to the recent human disaster of the Rohingya tribe? Since centuries, Chittagong, a part of undivided Bengal under British rule, had witnessed their men leaving for Burma
Out of 125 towns and cities across Bengal, 76 have achieved Open Defecation Free (ODF) status. All towns in North 24 Parganas, Nadia, Hooghly, Burdwan and East Midnapore were declared ODF zones. Nadia was the first district to attain ODF status in 2015. The figures
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation will take down the museum of Town Hall that was opened in 2002 to highlight the city’s history, culture and heritage. Last year, restoration of Town Hall started after experts expressed concerns over its structural stability. For restoration KMC is taking help
Cycles have already made a come-back in major First World cities across the globe as a preferred means of communication, because they are zero-pollutants. According to suggestions given by IIT Kharagpur, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority has taken a positive move to use this
Haldia dock complex is set to get a new liquid terminal with a capacity of 2.5 million tonne annually. It will handle liquid cargo products, like edible oils, LPG and paraxylene. Expected completion and operation to start in 2020. This is indeed a great news as
Vistara, the joint venture of Tata Group and Singapore Airlines, is opening a sales office in Kolkata. The airline will also add a third daily direct flight between Delhi and Kolkata, taking the number of flights from Kolkata to five. The new flight will cater to
This is a tree, that has witnessed many global events since 1926, from the signing of the Berlin Treaty to Rishi Aurobindo’s retirement from revolutionary activities. The 91-year-old X-Mas tree on the city’s R. G. Kar Hospital campus has seen history unfold for almost a