Tag: Bengal
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Bengal to form Scheduled Caste Advisory Council soon
The West Bengal government will soon set up a Scheduled Caste Advisory Council, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced here on Monday. Briefing newspersons after a meeting of the Tribal Development Council, Banerjee said the new body would be set up for development of the Scheduled Caste population in the state and function on the lines …
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March 27, 2017 -
Bengal health panel to start functioning within week
The West Bengal Health Regulatory Commission, set up to monitor private hospitals, will start functioning within a week and a website will be in place for lodging online complaints, one of its members said on Friday. "It will start working in a week. We will also consider online complaints," panel member M.L. Saha said. Senior …
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March 24, 2017 -
Delights of nature
Last year, we planned a trip to Lava, Lolegaon, Rishyap and the surrounding areas, which have gained much popularity in the last few years as tourist spots. Our first destination was Lava. It is situated at an elevation of 7,700 feet, and needless to say, it was too cold. The two noteworthy spots for site-seeing …
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March 20, 2017 -
Delights of nature
Last year, we planned a trip to Lava, Lolegaon, Rishyap and the surrounding areas, which have gained much popularity in the last few years as tourist spots. Our first destination was Lava. It is situated at an elevation of 7,700 feet, and needless to say, it was too cold. The two noteworthy spots for site-seeing …
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March 20, 2017 -
Bengal to teach prisoners basic literacy through computers
With the aim to achieve 100 per cent literacy among prison inmates of West Bengal, the state has launched a Computer Based Fundamental Literacy Programme (CBFL), it was announced on Monday. Christened 'Project Sandeepan', the initiative was launched on February 1 by the Department of Correctional Administration and has Tata Consultancy Services as its knowledge …
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February 20, 2017 -
Theatre of the soil
Theatre in Bengal — or anywhere else for that matter — has seldom seen such commitment. There are no high stakes, no big advertisements, not even a regular stage for the kind of theatre that Partha Gupta has converted into a mission. The graduate from the drama department of Visva Bharati University had a brief …
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February 3, 2017 -
BJP Bengal vice president sent to jail
The BJP's West Bengal unit Vice President Jayprakash Majumdar, arrested for allegedly taking money from School Service Commission candidates by promising them jobs, was on Saturday sent to jail till February 3. Majumdar spent six days in police custody after his arrest on January 14. The judge at Bidhannagar court also rejected a bail plea …
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January 21, 2017 -
Rare tiger sighting in north Bengal prompts deployment of camera traps
In a rare sighting, a tiger was spotted in the Neora Valley National Park in the hills of north Bengal at an elevation of 6,000 to 8,000 feet, prompting the forest department to install camera traps in the region. This was the first photographic evidence of the big cat in the hills in more than …
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January 20, 2017 -
Passing through
The pleasantly familiar smell of deep-fried onion rings wafted in through the crack under the kitchen door. Slowly, he felt the veil of drowsiness begin to lift. He needed a cuppa and a few of those rings to clear the cobwebs. Still jet lagged? the tired-looking man with a weeks stubble, staring at him from the …
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January 10, 2017 -
Fitting tribute
Very few of us know that Sitara Devi had a very close connection with Bengal. She was born and brought up in Kolkata was very fluent in Bengali. At a tender age she got the chance to perform in front of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in Shantiniketan. After watching her perform Tagore offered her some gifts …
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December 30, 2016 -
Fitting tribute to an educator
Relatively little is known about the life and work of Gopal Krishna Gokhale compared to other popular Indian patriots. He was born in the village of Kothluk, Ratnagiri, Bombay Presidency on 9 May 1866 and was one of the first Indians to receive an English education, graduating from Elphinston College in 1884. In the early …
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November 22, 2016 -
Demonetisation turns bitter for Bengal’s famed sweet shops
Bengal’s sweet tooth is set to turn bitter as makers of the popular rosogolla (rasgulla) and sandesh have been left battered by the central government’s decision to ban Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 currency notes in a bid to weed out black money. From small roadside outlets who do not have the option of accepting debit cards …
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November 19, 2016 -
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