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.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will hold a meeting with the senior bureaucrats tomorrow to prepare a road for successfully holding the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS).
At Duburdih check post in Bengal – Jharkhand border of Asansol, police are stopping potato-laden trucks from entering Jharkhand.
Odisha witnessed large scale inter-state movement of elephants in the current winter season with jumbos from Jharkhand and West Bengal migrating to the state, according to the All Odisha Elephant Census-2024 census report released on Thursday.
Much acclaimed Rastar Master (teacher on the streets) Deep Narayan Nayak from Jamuria in West Burdwan connected rural Bengal with Finland when he presented his much acclaimed 'Three Generations Learning Model (3GLM)' at an international summit in Helsinki last week.
One of the renowned poets of Bengal, Arun Chakraborty, the composer of the famous poetic presentation Lal Pharir Deshe, suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away at his Chinsurah farm side road house.
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