Now people of Burdwan and nearby districts will no more be sent to other districts or Kolkata for Corona Testing, as Burdwan University ties up with Burdwan Medical College in setting up COVID-19 Testing Laboratory. The tests will be done in ‘Real-Time PCR’ technology and
It is often said Swami Vivekananda and Sister Nivedita had taken a big role during the plague epidemic in Bengal by literally bringing out manifestos, working on cleaning of neighbourhoods and building awareness. No wonder Ramakrishna Mission following their footsteps, will rise to the Corona
Two 3rd year Engineering students of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Department of Jadavpur University, have come up with a sound-based device driven through Artificial Intelligence for early detection of COVID-19 patients in classrooms, work-places, movie theatres etc in a post Lockdown scenario. The device can
Burdwan in Bengal was once upon a time considered to be a very healthy place in the 1840s-50s and doctors prescribed patients to go there on holidays to revive their health. But that very Burdwan in the 1860s along with adjoining Hooghly district had turned
As we all know the COVID 19 strain has mutated several times and different forms have infected people of different nations. However, the nature of the dominant strain in the country is needed to be known as that will help the doctors to treat patients
She has always spent her vacation inventing one thing or the other, she has always been innovative in her approach, many of her inventions have already been patented. Digantika Basu of Memari hence utilized her Lockdown days to invent Air Providing and Virus Destroying Mask
Kaustav Bakshi, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur University Amrita Roychowdhury, Social Entrepreneur and Founder, Transcendent Knowledge Society Weary and exasperated with taking care of an adult, intellectually disabled daughter, the protagonist of Aparna Sen’s Paromita’r Ekdin (2000), Sanaka breaks down in an emotional outburst: “For 25
Oxford University’s researchers recently went for the human trials of COVID-19 vaccine and if found to be effective, the vaccine will probably be available by late autumn. But what many of us are not aware of is that a Kolkata girl, who completed her education
A group of students, researchers and alumni of Jadavpur University are manufacturing cost-effective, reusable, three-layered masks on the design provided by Centre for Appropriate Social Technologies (CAST), JU, to help people fight Covid-19. The scheme known as ‘People’s Initiative for Technology’ has engaged four tailors
As number of asymptomatic Corona patients are rising in India, West Bengal government has decided to start pool testing samples in low-risk zones which have reported 2% or lesser Covid-19 positive cases. This method will involve pooling in samples of five possible suspects, even though