Plastic is a versatile, lightweight, flexible and highly durable material and is used across almost every sector, but it pollutes too being non-biodegradable! Around the world, one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute, while 5 trillion single-use plastic bags are used worldwide every
PHe has long been involved in researching the connection between the immune system in the human body and various diseases, from cancer to sepsis to diabetes and more. He has a deep interest in deciphering the complexities of transcriptional regulation—the ways by which a cell
Social reformer and freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale had once remarked, “What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow.” This was enough to invoke Bengalis’ pride and since then, they have been swearing by it. A century ago, Bengal was in the forefront in every sphere
Hasimara Air Force Station in Alipurduar, North Bengal is all set to house Rafale fighter jets which are expected to arrive here by mid-April. The Indian Air Force (IAF) will raise its second squadron of the ‘game changing’ Rafale combat aircraft in Hasimara air base.
Say it with your heart and not with your head! Often said but not always followed, for even today despite a big leap in medical science, everything about the heart is still not written, and many mysteries are still not solved. The heart is one of the
Left : Professor Sourav Chatterjee and Right : Professor Arindam Ghosh Six eminent scientists, including those from MIT, Harvard and Stanford universities, were awarded the prestigious Infosys Prize 2020 on 2nd December for their outstanding contributions to research and innovation. The annual award includes a pure
‘Frequency’ is a 2000 American science fiction thriller film featuring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. A rare atmospheric phenomenon leads to an accidental cross-time radio link that connects a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via HAM
Kharagpur IIT alumni and researcher/ Professor Chinmay Chakraborty, a native of Sabang, a remote village in the Kharagpur subdivision of West Midnapore district, has made it to Stanford University's list of world's best scientists. He has made it to the list and bagged the title of excellence for
The horrifying incident recently at one of the premier institutions of India and Kolkata yet again opened our eyes to the social disease called ragging. Swapnadeep Kundu, a 17-year-old boy, who became a victim of ragging and lost his life after just 3 days of
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is India's highest science award given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental in seven scientific disciplines — biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, medicine, engineering