Around one lakh street food vendors in and around Kolkata will now have to register with KMC’s compulsory scheme. The move aims at ensuring hygiene of the food being sold in the open as per FSSAI (Food Safety & Standards Authority of India) norms. KMC officials
Kolkata will see its first hi-tech bar-coded car parking system in place during the Fifa Under-17 World Cup. The Bidhannagar Police have laid an elaborate plan to ease the parking problems. There will be a provision of 3000 vehicles to get bar-coded stickers. The stadium
Remember the short-lived poet Sukanto Bhattacharya, who was one of the best neo-Bengali protest poets? He was inspired by his teacher to take up his pen and write poems in school. While he was studying in Beleghata High School, Sukanto came across his mentor-teacher, Nabadwip
H.G. Wells and his Time Machine, not just highlighted shortcomings of human learning, but was an iconic science fiction that predicted how education in the wrong perspective can lead humans to turn robots. Wells met Nobel Laureate and great thinker, Rabindranath Tagore,in Geneva in June,
The Bengal government is pitching for a $4 billion (around 25,000 crores) Saudi investment in oil refinery and port projects. Saudi officials who met Bengal’s chief minister feel Bengal coast is a potential site for one of the two oil refineries they wish to set
The education department wants to start an English medium section in the Bengali medium government schools from primary section or Class I. Selected schools will start the English section soon and one class will be added every year. It is definitely a welcome move, and will
Bengal’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate a grand conference hall adjoining Nabanna today. The hall has a seating capacity of around 900 people. It has been built at a cost of 6.5 crores on a plot adjoining Nabanna bus stand. There is also a huge
Next time you go to Buxa Tiger Reserve in North Bengal, be prepared to stay outside the forest. And that’s for the good of the tigers. Too many hotels that were allowed to mushroom within the premises of the reserve had played havoc with the
A Rs 88 crore power generation plant that was under trial in Kolkata airport will soon be connected to the CESC grid and will become the largest source of alternative energy in the country. Setting up huge solar panel installations in the middle of a
Rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan made his foray in Bollywood with the MSG franchise, and if things had gone according to plan, he was looking to enter the Bengali film industry next. He was all set to launch a movie on Netaji Subhash