A shattered building with broken wooden windows and a creaking staircase. A boisterous crowd protesting agitatedly as loudspeakers blare their demands. A group of sat on a make-shift platform and protested through hunger strike. Such were the scenes outside the Kolkata head office of the Bharat Sanc...
God Calls O Children!All living beings are my manifestation.I am seated in the heart of all.There is no caste by birth, no lower or upper, all are divine.O Brahmins (scholars), be not proud of either knowledge or worship.Impart knowledge to all, allow worship to all, love all, hate none.O Warriors (...
Emami Agrotech entered the organised spice market with the launch of ‘Emami Healthy & Tasty Mantra’, a varied range of pure and blended powder spices and tastemakers. Aditya V. Agarwal, Director, Emami Group launched the range. Ananya Chatterjee, an acclaimed Bengali actor and endorser of th...
Bangladesh rises, but challenges remainBangladesh has crossed India in growth rate of GDP and on certain social indicators. A few days ago, Atiur Rahman, Professor of Economics, University of Dhaka and former Governor, Bangladesh Bank, said in Kolkata during an interactive session at the Merchant Ch...
Amidst widespread protests from doctors and medical bodies, the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, 2019, was signed into a law by President Ram Nath Kovind on August 8, 2019. However, it will only be clear in the future if the new legislation is successful in bridging the gaps that exist in the...
One is reminded of Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop as one steps into Russel Exchange, a 79-year-old auction house at Russell Street in Kolkata. Everything – clothes, furniture, sculptures, chandeliers, crockeries – is saleable in Russel Exchange. A garment auction is held here every Th...
Digitisation and automation have ushered in far reaching changes in leading industries in India. Engineering institutes are evolving new courses to equip their students for the new wave of digital industries. Guru Nanak Institute of Technology (GNIT) has been pioneering various courses in the domain...
Mesodinium chamaeleon, a strange green creature found in Denmark that lives at the bottom of the sea, is causing researchers to rethink traditional ways of classifying living organisms.Traditionally, there are differences between animals and plants:• Animals cannot produce their own energy and mus...
Infrastructure in a way is the essential “inners” of any development plan. Without it there is no progress; but with its right support you can achieve whatever you wish to build upon. However, infrastructure is expensive and eats away much of your ‘capital’.A country progresses with its inve...
Dear Readers,World Economy: Since April 2019, global investment banks including HSBC, Barclays, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale have cut almost 30,000 jobs due to falling interest rates, weak trading volumes and automation. Job cuts are not restricted to banks alone. Global slowdown is...