Staff Reporter FESTIVAL TIME: A huge Durga idol being prepared for the Navarathri celebrations, organised by the Keral Banga Samskriti Sangha, in Kochi....
A Kansas State University geologist and graduate student are finding that the most important tools in their fieldwork on groundwater arsenic pollution are women and children armed with pamphlets and testing kits. "When going into a foreign land, you need the common...
In town to spend his Diwali holidays with fiancee Konkona Sensharma, Ranvir Shorey ended up playing a Director of Photography in Aparna Sens Iti Mrinalini. A t2 chat with Ranvir on the sets at Indrapuri Studio... What brings you to Calcutta? Are you a part of Iti...
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikha Hasina Wajed called Saturday for the United Nations to adopt Bengali as one of its official languages. "The language Bangla (Bengali) is spoken by...
;Sanjib Chakraborty BARRACKPORE, 21 SEPT: Here is an instance that would put the Bengaliculture to shame. The ancestral home of Trailokkonath Mukhopadhya, famous Bengali writer who wrote the Bengali encyclopedia Biswacosh, at Rahuta near Shyamnagar, North 24 Parganas,...
KOLKATA, 6 SEPT: Candidates appearing for Railway Recruitment Board examinations will now be able to write their answers in regional languages, said railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today. Miss Banerjee was speaking after attending an Iftar Party at Park Circus...
Uttam Kumar Uttam Kumar, one of the biggest film icons in the history of Bengalicinema, hypnotizes the viewers even today. On his 83th birth anniversary, well known actor Aly Zaker describes Uttam as an extra...
;Abhisek Roychowdhury NAMKHANA, 3 AUG: Hilsa, the favourite fish of the people of Bengal, has been in short supply this year in the aftermath of the cyclone Aila. The cyclone blew over large tracts of South 24-Parganas and the rivulets spread across the Sunderbans...
