GetBengal has crossed shores and reached Europe. It came as a platform to talk about positive aspects of Bengal and to reach out to a wider diaspora across the world. It has, and will always try to instil a sense of pride in the community,
West Bengal might soon get the first HAM radio centre of India. HAM radios can be extremely handy during natural disasters and big events like Gangasagar Mela when other forms of communication are not readily available. Once the centre comes up at the state secretariat,
Recently, scientists discovered a unique way to get rid of mosquitoes by feeding them sweets! Manufacturers claim, this insecticide can eliminate the entire mosquito population of an area at a go. The repellant contains a chemical, that creates a sweet odour, attracting scourges of mosquitoes
Animation studies is fast catching up in India and rest of the world, and hundreds of jobs are being created each year in this sector. But an animation course in any standard private college is costly and usually out of bounds for students of lower
It was a peaceful Saturday morning with the Digha beach brimming with weekend tourists. Suddenly the peace was disturbed with two loud bangs. Blasts one after the other. The sounds were so deafening that tourists even left their hotels in Old Digha and came out
Munmun Mitra shares an experience of a private encounter with the head of Naga Sanyasis of Juna Akhara and questions why these religious gurus are so powerful in modern India? ‘Love is the only commodity, which increases while sharing
The fossil remains of a horned herbivorous reptile named as Shringasaurus Indicus has been unearthed by paleontologists and researchers from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. Belonging to the Triassic period, that preceded the Jurassic Age when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, this new reptile fossil
With judges of Supreme Court coming up recently with revolutionary verdicts one after another, the country surely looks up to them as a messiah. The highest court of India has now adopted an exclusive flag and plate which would be used for official purposes on
Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, took stock of the spiraling vegetable and flower prices ahead of the festive season and asked her officials to regularly monitor market prices. She has instructed them to check any price rise immediately. She took note from the florists, fishery
Astronauts cannot carry a lot of spare parts into space because every extra kilogram adds to the cost of fuel needed to escape the Earth’s gravity. For astronauts who are going to make journeys that span several years, scientists needed to find a way to