Before the Covid-19 pandemic became part of our lives, some of you may have chanced upon a small café near Charuchandra College on Lake Road in south Kolkata called Sip n Bite. If yes, you would have immediately spotted what makes it stand out. Of
India observes National Vaccination Day every year on 16th March. But this year surely the Day holds a far deeper impact with the roll out of COVID-19 mass vaccination in India in full swing. The Pandemic that has been raging throughout the world since last
Back in 1985, American child psychiatrist Richard Gardner came up with a term to describe extreme but seemingly unreasonable fear, disrespect or hostility displayed towards one parent by a child (or children), influenced by the other parent, particularly in cases where the parents were estranged.
You can call them ‘Pad Crusaders’ or ‘Pad Revolutionaries’. Unravelling the truth behind men-struation in remote Bengal, creating awareness about reproduction and menstruation, hygiene and environmental concerns connected with disposal of sanitary pads to distributing free sanitary pads, that’s what they do. There is an
Recently researchers involved in cancer research have found an alarming trend in India -- the average age of Indian women being diagnosed with cancer is growing younger by the day compared to developed countries. Not many are familiar with UK-born Indian clinical-scientist, Dr Asima Mukhopadhyay.
As West Bengal prepares to roll out the Covid-19 vaccination programme today, the recently released report of the National Family Health Survey 2019-20 (NFHS-5) indicates that for planners and citizens alike, the success of the state’s mass immunisation programme may make the logistics of the
Immunization --- the golden word doing rounds in every nook and corner of the world. This year it is all about COVID-19 vaccine. With dry run for COVID vaccines completed in four states of India and India planning to inoculate 30 crore people in the
The year that has just ended will perhaps forever be known as ‘the Covid year’. Rightly so, because the world talked about little else for 12 solid months. The good news is, 2020 taught us to survive, to set priorities, to conquer fear, and to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNY7wpuTtMQ Food adulteration has been a constant cause for the rising cancer cases in India. Over the last decade the country has seen almost a 60 per cent jump in cancer patients and other than pollution, the second most important reason for cancer seems to be
The flagship outreach programme of Bengal government on doorstep delivery of its welfare schemes, ‘Duare Sarkar’, crossed the 1 crore registration mark in 15 days from its rollout date. Within four days into the Phase II of the two-month-old programme where government officials are holding multiple