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.
The erstwhile state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the ruling Trinamul Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal of targeting Hindu pilgrims with an "unauthorised tax" during one of the state’s largest religious festivals.
Mamata Banerjee, Trinamul Congress chairperson today instructed the Trinamul MPs to raise the issue on the attack of the Bengali speaking migrant labourers in the BJP-ruled states and foil the saffron party’s attempt to equate Bengali as Bangladeshi language.
Traders and consumers are struggling to cope with soaring prices of aromatic rice in the retail market – even at its birthplace in East Burdwan, Bengal’s rice bowl.
Trinamool Congress, on Sunday, highlighted another incident of a migrant worker from West Bengal being killed in a BJP-ruled state.
July accounted for 82 per cent of the total monsoon precipitation this year in East Burdwan — one of Bengal’s key agricultural districts.
