On July 8, 2016, Hon'ble Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee launched the 'Safe Drive Save Life' campaign, intended to make our roads less prone to accidents. Relentless campaigning by the administration and police has had a great impact on the number of road
The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War II. The virus’ namesake, the Sun’s corona is far more formidable and menacing than the living organism. And now Kolkata’s International award-winning acclaimed
A group of Bengali scientists of IIT Kharagpur has been conferred the prestigious ‘Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards 2020’ last week for developing a mechanism for generating electricity from wet clothes left under sunlight to dry. This path-breaking innovation will address the problem of energy
India’s largest floating Solar Power Plant is coming up in West Bengal’s Sagardighi. This 5MW grid-connected floating solar project at Sagardighi Thermal Power Project (SgTPP) in Murshidabad is a new feather to Bengal’s cap. This floating solar plant with 5MW capacity will be the largest
This is indeed a moment of pride for the whole of Bengal as Bengali scientists literally swept the prestigious Bhatnagar Awards this year, that happen to be the Highest Award in Science in India. Six Bengali scientists have won this year. Out of them two
Veteran atomic scientist and former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Dr Sekhar Basu succumbed to COVID-19 early on Thursday at a private hospital in Kolkata, a health department official said. ‘Dr Basu was suffering from COVID-19 and other kidney ailments. He died at 4.50
Coronavirus was for the first time identified in 1960 as a cause of common cold. By now we all know it is an enveloped RNA virus, single-stranded with a pleomorphic or spherical shape having projections of glycoprotein. It has various subtypes such as alpha, beta,
In a major breakthrough, a global team of scientists led by Dr Kanak Saha, Associate Professor of Astronomy at Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) has discovered one of the earliest galaxies in extreme ultraviolet light. AstroSat, India’s first multi-wavelength satellite that has
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have uncovered a novel drug target, a protein called PPP1R1B, that stops the deadly spread or metastatic growth of pancreatic cancer. Published recently in Gastroenterology, the findings are a first step towards a potential treatment for one
August 12 was first designated International Youth Day by the UN General Assembly in 1999, and serves as an annual celebration of the role of young women and men as essential partners in change, and an opportunity to raise awareness of challenges and problems facing