As the mercury crosses 40 degree mark in the city and several south Bengal districts, the state health department directed government hospitals to set up heatstroke management units across the state.
Ullaskar suffered immensely after being caught by the British and was sent to the Cellular jail in the intractable Andamans.
Imagine curating a celluloid cruise, cherry-picking from the treasure trove of monochrome marvels straight out of the swinging ’60s silver screen! It might look like finding a needle in a haystack, but, fear not, because Srijit Mukherji is here to show us how it’s done.
The Uttam Kumar mania, or craze, has not waned even after forty-four years since his demise in 1980. Dubbed at one time the “Mahanayak”, his presence is still felt in the hearts of cinephiles in Bengal even in this new millennium. His film premiere, Oti Uttam, directed by Srijit Mukherji, was screened on Wednesday, 24 March.
The roots of some traditions are so deep, like the roots of ancient Banyan trees, that they have persevered despite the advent of modernism and its attempts to overshadow them.
At a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, former Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said that Mamata Banerjee
The Anti Terrorism Squad of Gujarat suspects that the East Burdwan youths picked up on charges of conspiring to commit anti-national activities were preparing a sleeper cell named 'Bengal Module' in the western state that was funded by Islamic State of Khorsan Province (ISKP) and not Al Qaida that the agency was inclined to think initially.
With just a year left for the Lok Sabha elections, Bengal BJP has decided to overhaul its district-level organisational network in West Bengal. The state party president and MP, Sukanta Majumdar, had already indicated this earlier.
Central representatives have made it clear that the explanations of the party leadership will not affect the party’s stand of treating BJP and TMC in the same manner
Our Republic is commemorating the 150th birth year of Sri Aurobindo Ghose, the 90th death anniversary of Bipin Chandra Pal, and the 103rd death anniversary of Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Long before 1905 the sharing of ideas and action plans between these three intellectual giants laid the foundations of our freedom struggle with clarity on the power of ‘Swaraj‘, boycott of foreign goods, nationalism, and Sanatana Dharma. Aurobindo Ghose, the youngest of this triumvirate, was clearly the most revolutionary and radical in his writings and activism
