The West Bengal government, under the guidance of the Hon'ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has officially launched the West Bengal Student Credit Card Scheme, through which students will be provided loans for higher education. The decision to launch the scheme was taken at a state
After the scorching heat of the summer months, monsoon is a harbinger of relief. But it is also the season when vector-borne diseases including malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis, scrub typhus, yellow fever and lymphatic filariasis thrive. Vector-borne diseases account for more than 17 per
It was a rainy August evening in the village of Panchal in Bankura. Farmer Bhairab Saini, famous for his rare lost variety of Bengal paddy cultivation in Bankura clusters, was returning from a hard day of work in the fields. He was accompanied by his
This year, Durga Puja falls in the second week of October. And Howrah Municipal Corporation intends to vaccinate all puja organisers, idol makers, priests, and labourers by the end of September. This was decided at a meeting held earlier this week between the district's health
“How many roads can you travel to be called a traveller? How far can you stay away from your home? We only think of the people who are sufferers, the road is our destination” --- that’s what Kakali Ghosh, IC Baruipur Women’s Police Station, has
As India grapples to come out of the dangerous 2nd wave of COVID-19, that literally left the country ravaged and exposed its unpreparedness, the possibility of a 3rd wave is looming large. Several doctors including AIIMS director have warned the countrymen and government that a
Probably that’s called dedication and a will to win the war against COVID-19. When most medical practitioners and doctors across the world are stressing upon vaccination being the only weapon to beat COVID-19, West Bengal government has set a precedence. Not only is it the
As many as 32,000 primary and upper primary teachers to get jobs by this year in West Bengal. This is indeed good news in the times of Pandemic when across India many are losing jobs. Here in Bengal on the contrary they are getting jobs.
One of West Bengal's oldest settlements has become one of the first to successfully implement the state government's 'Duare Vaccine' programme announced by Hon'ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. We are talking about Chandannagar assembly constituency, where MLA and minister Shri Indranil Sen has taken the
The beginning of this story goes back nearly 135 years, to the year 1888. At Shimla, perhaps the most British of all Indian hill stations, Sir Mortimer Durand, the Foreign Secretary in charge of India from 1884-94, was recovering from illness. As he lay in