West Bengal

Many gripping true crime stories have been presented every Sunday morning since July by the Kolkata Police on their Facebook page. True-crime aficionados are hooked. The department accepted the request of followers of the FB page to provide information about old and sensational cases and decided to

After school, 15-year-old Soni Khatun starts knocking on doors at the “EJC basti” in Kolkata, looking for children like her, speaking to them, asking whether they go to school or if their families are planning to get them married. Armed with an old notebook, she carefully notes down the replies

One teacher of a school in Mathurapur in 24-Paragnas in West Bengal recently was able to stop the marriage of a class X student of his school. According to the teacher this is the fifth child marriage, of his students, that he has been able to stop. In the last 3 years he has helped in all 10 school

Lobsang Jamyang escaped from Tibet and arrived in Dharamsala in 1997. This monk, whose official status in India is that of a refugee, set up Tong Len Charitable Trust, which runs a residential set-up in Sarah village, some 15 km from Mcleodganj, with financial backing from the Dalai Lama. Today

This is a story that we all should be proud of. Realising the importance of education a family of three, mother, father and the son attended the same class together to appear for class XII examinations. When the results came, the mother and the son could succeed while the father could not succeed

MV V. V. Giri, a vessel of the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) began a landmark pilot movement on April 23rd 2017 from Kolaghat in East Midnapore district of West Bengal to Bhagalpur in Bihar with a cement consignment of 240 tonnes. The vessel's journey commenced from Kolaghat on

A Kolkata-based company has designed a bus that will run on biogas produced from cow dung. The first bus flagged off on Friday will run between Ultadanga in the north and Garia in the south in Kolkata. At just Re 1 for the 17.5 km stretch, the bus will be the cheapest mode of transport for a

If one is determined, age is no bar. And this story is not of one, but two together. This is the story of one Balaram Mondal and his wife Kalyani Mondal who made history of sorts on Wednesday when they walked in, with their son Biplab Mondal, to appear in the 12th standard examination at Bahirgachhi

This is the story of one Karimul Haque, a tea garden worker in his early 50s, who ferries the ill, the poor and the fragile to and from the district hospital on his bike. In rural India the road conditions are pretty bad and so is the medical facilities. If, in a remote village, there is a medical

At a time when instances of religious intolerance are reported from different parts of the country, a 66-year-old Muslim is championing the cause of communal harmony by leading a movement to preserve temples. This is the story of retired school peon Yasin Pathan who started the ‘Save the Temples’

IIT Kharagpur starts courses on "Happiness". The initial batch will be of 60 to 70 students. This course will be for both graduate and post graduate level. It will teach the science of happiness, stress management etc. App to measure happiness and calmness will also be developed. Read more in the IE

The Gau-Vikash Prakastha of the BJP is ready to go all out to ensure Mudra Bank loans to cattle owners. The group is using this route to prevent cattle smuggling and cow slaughtering in Bengal. The move comes at a time when incidents of Gau-rakshaks attacking Dalits and Muslims are being reported