Kolkata has always been the melting pot of modernism and tradition. Thus, we have the fast moving metro and have the hand pulled rickshaw, there are swanky malls as well as the British built Hogg Market, teeming with people. Any trip to this heritage market,
There are many ghats in Kolkata along the bank of river Ganges. One of them is Maayer Ghat at Baghbazar. I went to Maayer Ghat many times. This ghat was named after holy mother Sarada Devi. Ma Sarada used to come here to take bath
Often media reports make for a beeline, on how police from Bengal landed up in Noida or Faridabad, rescuing trafficked children from some village of North Bengal or Murshidabad. Only recently, police teams from West Bengal made trips to Delhi and adjoining areas to recover
About two years ago satellite pictures of the city was released and analyzed. The result was extremely grim. The city’s green cover had dipped to an extremely unhealthy 4.79 percent, an indicator to the damage that was gradually going out of hands. And now to
The Alipore Zoo is all set to have new inmates this winter. Four grey kangaroos, known to be the fastest kangaroos in the world have arrived at the Alipore Zoo from Japan’s Yokohama Zoo. A pair of jaguars, Asiatic Lions and mouse deer will also
The news of finding a vast fossil forest at Ilambazar in Birbhum has garnered enough interest both among geologists and tourists. State Forest Department is developing 10 hectares around Amkhoi-Jambooni, as a tourist spot where the main attraction would be a fossil park. Previously paleontologists
Almost 374 crore was approved by the state level committee looking after green projects for beautification and protecting Bengal’s flora and fauna. The Green Cities Mission will involve setting up underground cable in select towns, green zones in towns and Kolkata, replacing old street lights
Environmentalists of West Bengal Pollution Control Board feels this year the air pollution over Kolkata might be less compared to other years. But that is not because of awareness of the people, it is because of a different climatic condition that is reigning over Kolkata
Uma Rajan, Senior co-ordinator of Birla High School, Calcutta, pens down her feelings for the ‘City of Joy.’ As a four-month-old baby, I came to Calcutta. My father worked in Dunlop which was on Free School Street. I grew up in the city and the city