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.
Miss Banerjee clarified that local trains can be started only after 50 per cent of the population in the city-adjoining districts of North and South 24 Parganas, Nadia, Howrah and Hooghly are vaccinated.
It would be a politically adversarial path to Trinamul in West Bengal while the Tripura leadership will chalk out its own game plan. The strategies for the two states are as different from each other as chalk is to cheese. Moreover, it gives rise to more questions than it answers.
As per Union Ministry of Home Affairs data, the total number of infiltration attempts at the Indo-Bangladesh border in 2021, up to 30 June, is 441.
The BJP MPs from West Bengal requested the union health minister to start vaccination for the common man at central government health facilities in the state. Almost all the BJP MPs except S.S. Ahluwalia and Babul Supriyo attended the meeting.
To prevent corruption, the department has come up with an SMS system for the beneficiaries.
