West Bengal

Pranati Nayak went to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia for the Asian Gymnastics Championships, relieved in the knowledge that she had successfully accomplished two of her four targets for 2019: build a house for her family and take half the responsibility of her elder sister’s wedding. Her father, a state

This is the first post on the web site, which boasts of giving only positive news, that can be said is related to politics. However, the edit team gave serious consideration and thought it fit to post here as this is a motivational piece to see that elections are fair, the right candidate is elected

“I will not get my daughter married before she reaches the age of 18. She will not be a school dropout. I will educate her and after she attains the age of 18, I will arrange for her marriage.” This is the text of an undertaking for parents of girl students at a school in West Bengal, near the

Sobhan Mukherjee of Bansdroni has been breaking many stereotypes. Since last year, the postgraduate student of geography at Asutosh College been spending over Rs 11,000 a month to stock up sanitary napkins at public toilets to promote menstrual hygiene. Till now, he has stocked up 30 toilets with

Fifteen-year-old Abhay Gupta did not have a study table or enough space in his one-room home to keep his books. The teen prepared for his ICSE exams under streetlights, perched on a packing case a few yards away from his father’s bookstall on a Park Street pavement. Yet, the braveheart — a student

Blood, they say, flows thicker than water. But a little girl with an extremely rare blood type who suffers from a congenital cardiac ailment received a gift of life thanks to the combined effort and generosity of complete strangers across Odisha, Jharkhand and Bengal. Iteeshree, now 4, was born in

“Lachit, atro agachchhatu. Griham atithayoh agoto bontoh (Come here, Lachit, we have guests),” Moumita Bar told her son as we entered the two-bedroom flat in a middle class locality in Basirhat town near the Bengal-Bangladesh border, about 75 km from Kolkata. Before the four-and-a-half-year old boy

Almost every afternoon over the last three months, the buzz around Maddox Square Park in Kolkata’s Ballygunge has been all about them. For two hours, they would take turns to slip into the driver’s seat of the autorickshaw, slowly gaining respect and confidence with every drive. Very soon, one of

The National Mission for Clean Ganga has sanctioned and completed 24 Ghats and Crematoria projects in West Bengal at a cost of Rs 180.16 Crores. The above infrastructure was created in Kolkata, Bansberia, Howrah, Seerampore, Khardah, Naihati, Chandanagar, Baidyabati, Panihati, Kamarhati, Bally

A mountaineer from Kolkata completed the rare feat of scaling nine peaks, including the Seven Summits (the highest peaks of each of the seven continents), on Saturday. Software engineer Satyarup Siddhanta, 34, climbed Mt Vinson in Antarctica shortly after 9am (local time) - his ninth summit since

A novel research by scientists at IIT-Kharagpur has shown the way to generate electricity from onion peel. Eateries saddled with bags of the waste product can now turn them into a power source - the skin of a single onion can light up 12 green LEDs. The researchers have applied for a patent on the

West Bengal Chief Minister has announced that all pilgrims coming to Gangasagar for the 'mela' next year will be covered by a life insurance cover of five lakh Rupees each. The entire premium amount for this insurance cover will be borne by the state government. This is for the first time that such