Dairy sector in India plays an important role in the national economy and in the socio- economic development of the country. It has a significant role in supplementary family income and generating employment in the rural areas, particularly among the landless, small, marginal farmers and farm women,...
School of Music, Art & Culture organised a unique one day Art Work Shop on April 27, 2018 at Salt Lake, Kolkata. It was one of the promotional activities of the school. It got a stupendous response from the children and guardians. 43 students from different schools of the city participated ...
ASSOCHAM organised ‘EduMeet 2018 & Education Excellence Awards’ for immense contribution in education sector, on July 12, 2018 at Hyatt Regency. Heritage InstituteofTechnology received “The Best Engineering College of the Year”. On receiving the award, H. K. Chaudhary, Chairman, He...
Fighting through the darkness‘Socially confined’ can be the right word for the residents of the red light areas (RLAs). A woman of an RLA is confined within her ‘profession’ by her trafficker / pimp / landlady through a mechanism of intimidation and violence. The children of RLAs carry marks...
Students have always been worried about being placed. But now, the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT) has launched a placement portal, ‘makautplacement.com’ that solves the placement worries of its students at least in Kolkata and its surrounding areas. The portal will con...
Every day, while commuting, I see little kids playing and loitering around under the Gariahat flyover. Families reside there, and they are raising their children amidst such poverty. Clad in extremely dirty clothes with dishevelled hair, even matted—you would find these kids roaming around the str...
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata is the foremost centre of learning of different branches of Science. There are seven campuses of IISER in India. Professor Sourav Pal, the director of the Institute in his exclusive interview with BE’s Kishore Kumar Biswas, talks ...
The hands that used to wash dishes once are now cutting the threads to be independent by getting hold of the ‛charkha’Baby Devi, Anamika Jha and Rani Devi, the ladies of Barhiya who were once confined to take care of their households are now taking up training for solar power based ‛chark...
The newly elected chief minister of Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy is by profession a film producer. His wife is a film actor. Film and politics, especially in the southern states, are very closely interlinked. The former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalitha, was a film actress. So was Andhra Prades...
A ‘photo-shopped’ picture of the prime minister’s mother riding an auto-rickshaw has created a furore in the media and among the opposition. Unfortunately, the Indian media almost goes unchecked in circulating such mischief frequently.Western researchers have developed organised efforts ...
