Best left in the drawer?
A government report that spends more than a decade in a drawer tells a story regardless of what is written on its pages.
A government report that spends more than a decade in a drawer tells a story regardless of what is written on its pages.
The second day of the 60th Garment Buyers & Sellers Meet & B2B Expo, organised by the West Bengal Garment Manufacturers & Dealers Association (WBGMDA) at Science City, witnessed an overwhelming response from buyers, retailers, distributors, wholesalers, and industry stakeholders from across India and overseas.
Political history is too important to be left either to political memory or to political mythology. Its first obligation is historical explanation.
In O. Henry’s The Last Leaf, ailing Johnsy clings to life because one painted leaf refuses to fall. Such is the power of optimism; it does not need to be certain to be effective.
Having studied, in the sixties, at two of Bengal’s iconic institutions, and having observed the paths these have traversed, some thoughts crossed my mind for consideration of the new government.
Concerned over repeated incidents of tigers entering Bengal from Odisha, chief minister Mamata Banerjee today asked the government in Odisha to rescue its tigers entering the Bengal border repeatedly.
Union Minister of Textiles Giriraj Singh will inaugurate the new permanent campus of the Indian Institute of Handloom Technology (IIHT) Fulia in West Bengal on Saturday.
Three-year-old tigress Zeenat, that kept forest personnel of three states on the toes for almost three weeks after unleashing terror in forest-side human habitations, was bought back to the Similipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district on Wednesday in a joint endeavour of authorities of the three states, an official said.
Tigress Zeenat has caught all the forest officials on the wrong foot as she has shifted to nearby Manbazar from Raika Hills in Bandwan, the forest minister of Odisha, Ganesh Ram Singhkhuntia has said that all efforts will be taken to bring back the Big Cat in Similipal Tiger Reserve.
The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has agreed to release irrigation water for five South Bengal districts, which will commence on 5 January for Rabi and 26 January for Boro cultivation in the first phase.
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