Shree Vishudhanand Saraswati Marwari Hospital recently inaugurated a high dependency unit. It was created with the intention of allocating patients in post-intensive therapy period. The facility has been funded by the Bajoria family in memory of Late Ramji Dasji Bajoria who had a huge role in buildi...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has been working for child development in India since 1949. Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque, who had visited West Bengal recently after joining as the UNICEF Representative in India, has said the state is doing well on child development projects. This is a special ...
The illegal trafficking of drugs is part of the global black market, which deals with the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are prohibited by law. In the global scenario, there have been cases of death penalty to combat drug smugglers. Dilip Kumar Srivastava, Zonal Direct...
SREI foundation organised a seminar on Prevention of Crimes: Awareness, Rebuilding of lives, Rehabilitation on July 13, 2018 at Vivekananda Hall, Ballygunje in the presence of H.P. Kanoria, Chairman, SREI Foundation. Shitaram Sharma, honorary consul of Republic of Belarus, Chairman, WEBFUNA, and Pra...
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...
Ashoke Mitra was a rare breed among the Bengali intellectuals. Even weeks ago before he died on May 1 at the age of 90, he was writing articles for his magazine which he established in his late years.He was born in Dhaka, capital of present-day Bangladesh. In his early life he picked up ...
The world is in turmoil with the leakage of 50 million personal data from the social media giant, Facebook, through a London- based political strategist company, Cambridge Analytica. It is said the data was used to influence the American citizens to vote for the current President Donald Trump. In In...
There are some places, where, as you enter – a part of you knows, you are going to go back there. You know it is not a one time experience, but a haven you want to indulge in on a regular basis. Such was my experience with Agni, the Healing Ayurveda Village, neatly tucked in the green pockets of P...
Nobel Laureate and economist Paul Krugman has recently remarked that lack of employment poses the biggest risk to India even as he has remained optimistic about the growth story that will be driven by the world’s fastest-growing economy’s young population.With the fear that India is experi...
Rakhi (18), who hails from a village near Bakrahat, South 24 Paraganas, West Bengal was married off to Bhanu (31). It’s a matter of disgrace that Rakhi’s parents couldn’t afford her daughter’s education but could readily marry her off to a man who is 13 years elder than her and could readily...
