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.
Indian development Economist Jayati Ghosh is among 20 prominent personalities ap-pointed by the United Nations to a high-level advisory board that will provide recom-mendations for the U.N. Secretary-General to respond to the current and future socio-economic challenges in the post-COVID-19 world. Ghosh aged 65 is a
US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday named Indian-American and Bengali born Sumona Guha as senior director for South Asia. Guha was co-chair of the South Asia foreign policy working group on the Biden-Harris campaign, and serves on the transition’s State Department Agency Review Team. Currently
How does it feel when suddenly books and classes and teachers all go online and virtual? Online mode of imparting education has become the future learning instrument in the days of COVID19 pandemic, particularly in India, where it was not as popular as in the
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 cruel year that was 2020 caused us several losses, among them one of Indian football's greatest legends. Born on January 15, 1938, Subimal 'Chuni' Goswami passed away last April. However, though it is birthday today, September is perhaps the month when we should be
“We stand in an unprecedented time, so does our youth, considered as the country’s future. With education evolving in the last few months and turning completely online, life has changed for many, especially the youth. Their lives now revolve around laptops, smart phones and computers,
Thousands and thousands of tattered books floating on muddy waters, devastated shop owners trying desperately to salvage whatever they could from the wreckage, an entire commercial ecosystem on the verge of ruin. These were the images Kolkata woke up to on the morning of May
Board Examination dates announced! Students rush to get hold of those fat ABTA question banks. Night oils burnt over those black and white pages having thousands of probable questions that might sail you through your board examination. Well, this is a picture that has been doing