Commuting will now be easier in the city of joy. The West Bengal government has recently initiated the Pathadisha app aimed to infuse a smart and transparent public transport service.As one of the most densely populated cities, Kolkata faces a huge challenge in providing a safe, efficient and ...
Societies respond to changes in two major ways, either passively adjusting to change or taking conscious charge of the situation. The nationalist movement and Nehru’s India were periods when the country and its leadership were imagining and giving shape to society, economy, culture and polit...
In India, as in other democratic countries, immigration and citizenship are quite contentious issues. When our Home Minister Rajnath Singh introduced the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, in the Lok Sabha, it was a conscious and well-planned political decision to grant citizenship to Bangladeshi Hi...
Vikash Sharma has assumed office as the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vedanta Group controlled Bharat Aluminum Company Ltd. He is expected to steer the company and focus on future growth and ensure continuous development.Sharma was well-received and warmly welcomed by senior BALCO...
New Zealand sits on top of a previously unknown continent. The continent is mostly submerged beneath the South Pacific and scientists are in favour of naming it Zealandia.Scientists from GNS Science, a New Zealand-based scientific research body, has informed recently that Zealandia was once a part o...
“The Government of India predicted that in 2016-17 India’s economic growth will reduce to 7·1% due to demonetisation. … The rate of growth in our state also may be restricted to 9.27% due to this demonetisation” - was how the West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra had begun his macro econo...
The snow-capped mountains have always attracted tourists to Kashmir. Although the last six months of the year 2016 remained mostly dry, the new year saw a spate of snowfall across Kashmir. This has boosted winter tourism in the valley. Enthusiastic over the snowfall in tourist destinations like Gulm...
Trump’s immigration policy raises the red flagUS President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 27, 2017, temporarily banning individuals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US. Countries like Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen have been barred...
The New Korba Super Speciality Hospital, Korba, Chhattisgarh has achieved the distinction of being the first cashless hospital in Chhattisgarh. In a programme organised by the hospital, the director of the hospital Dr. S Chandani informed about the hospital’s policy to go cashless and enumerated t...
Dr. Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History and Professor of International Relations at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. In 2013-14, he was the Edward Said Chair at the American University of Beirut. He has authored over seventeen books including The Darke...
