They are known as the Jungle Crows, but do not confuse them with any birds hovering on the Maidan, the Lungs of Kolkata. Rather, they are our very boys who are led by a visionary Briton to play Rugby! Yes Rugby, and not Football. In
One of the biggest cyclones of the century --- Cyclone Amphaan might have ravaged the paddy fields and fisheries of Sundarbans, but could not take away the resilience of farmers and the scientific know-how of Bengal’s agriculturists who have decided to grow salt resistant paddy
As COVID-19 rages through India, doctors have often warned that just like patients with co-morbidity are in the high-risk group, so are the smokers whose lung capacity have been reduced thanks to smoking over the years. Infact the virus first attacks the respiratory system of
I had often wondered how the jackfruit tree of our garden had grown in a narrow alley just in the back lane of our house. None from our family had planted it. Rather it grew on its own, from a sapling that suddenly sprung one
A recent Calcutta High Court judgement passed by the division bench of Justice Harish Tandon and Justice Soumen Sen have directed the authorities to start Ayurveda treatment to boost immunity among children in several camps of migrant labourers, in children homes and orphanages across Bengal.
If you thought the time has finally arrived to save nature, in the backdrop of COVID 19 and Cyclone Amphan, then you are wrong. For we should have started doing it long ago, if only we had followed the teaching of visionary Rabindranath Tagore. We
"আজ মঙ্গলবার। পাড়ার জঙ্গল সাফ করবার দিন। সব ছেলেরা দঙ্গল বেঁধে যাবে। রঙ্গলালবাবুও এখনি আসবেন। আর আসবেন তাঁর দাদা বঙ্গবাবু। সিদ্ধি, তুমি দৌড়ে যাও তো। অনঙ্গদাদাকে ধরো, মোটরগাড়িতে তাঁদের আনবেন। সঙ্গে নিতে হবে কুড়ুল, কোদাল, ঝাঁটা, ঝুড়ি। আর নেব ভিঙ্গি মেথরকে। এবার পঙ্গপাল এসে বড়ো
Since last one month the Calcutta Medical College was making headlines for all the wrong reasons, from media reporting how patients have been ill-treated, how COVID patients were kept waiting in a queue to how many doctors and nurses were falling prey to the virus
To ensure the safety of doctors, nurses and medical staff, many of whom are getting affected by COVID-19 while treating Corona patients, AMRI Salt Lake has introduced a near contact-less checking and treatment of COVID-19 patients in their specially designed Corona wards. These robots are
Kolkata’s oldest citizen, the 270-year-old Great Banyan Tree of Indian Botanical Gardens at Shibpur has been ravaged by Cyclone Amfaan. The tree that successfully withstood two earlier super cyclones of the 19th century in 1864 and in 1867, could not do so this time. The