OLX is a popular platform for buying and selling services and goods such as electronics, fashion items, furniture, household goods, properties, cars, and motorbikes. The OLX group spoke to BE’s Ellora De. Q. How is OLX different from comparable app-based competitors?A. What clearly diff...
English is taught as a second language in most government and government-aided schools in India.It has been observed by educationists that when students from non-English medium schools compete with students from English medium schools, they lag behind due to their non-proficiency in communicative En...
Article 21 of the Indian Constitution states that the right to health is integral to the right to life and the government has a constitutional obligation to provide health facilities. Governmental authorities have initiated technology-oriented medical facilities but in many cases, they are yet to be...
Dr. Akumar Maity, an independent researcher, has been pursuing his father’s unfinished research regarding an anticancer drug since 1992. His father, Jaykrishna Maity was an ayurvedic doctor and Maity has carried forward his research in the family laboratory in Shyampur, Howrah, West Bengal.The res...
The infrastructure sector holds promise as a focus area for the newly formed second National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. The election manifesto of the Bharitya Janata Party (BJP) for the 2019 elections had pledged to make a capital investment of 100 lakh crore by 2024 in this sector.The ke...
Giving children the kind of inputs and experiences they need has positive effects not only on their academic performance but also on a range of socio-economic outcomes. The responsibility of the school education system in the process of nation-building is enormous.According to the Annual Status of E...
Bilateral relations between Bangladesh and India have become a model of positive bilateral relations between neighbouring countries. The World Bank has projected that both countries will be among the fastest growing five countries in the world. A similar assessment has also been made by the Asian De...
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Kanta Chakraborty, a primary school teacher based in Kolkata, West Bengal, has lived this phrase. She is the mentor, guardian and teacher of 20 underprivileged girls between the ages of five and eighteen. Chakraborty wants respectable lives for these girls. S...
Looking at the current political climate of polarisation in India, it is time for Indians to rise above communalism and embrace humanism. This ideal is reflected in numerous literary works of Rabindranath Tagore.Rabindranath built Visva Bharati University at Shantiniketan, Birbhum, West Bengal, Indi...