New Delhi: The national Committee set up under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister to oversee the celebrations of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in its first meeting considered a proposal to establish a prestigious International Award in the memory of the late poet.

The Government of India subsequently established the Tagore Award for pr...

Kolkata: ISI, Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for broad collaboration in the field of analytics for the Telecom vertical.

In this collaboration Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam will leverage their domain strengths and leadership along with ISI's academic brilliance in the field of Analytics to de...

Author: Sugata Bose
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane, Price: Rs. 699/-, pp-408, HB, Biography
Book Review by Santanu Ganguly

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose dedicated his life to the struggle to liberate his people from British rule. In pursuit of that goal he raised and led the Indian National Army against Allied Forces during World War II. This was a man whose patriotism was, as Mah...

Title: Folk Arts Of West Bengal And The Artist Community
Author: Tarapada Santra
Publisher: Niyogi Books, Price: Rs. 795/-, pp-264, Photographs 193, HB, Non-Fiction
Book Review by Santanu Ganguly

Rural Bengal has always been a treasure-trove of folk art in diverse forms, which found expression in almost every conceivable item of village life in earlier days, starting from...

New Delhi: The community-wise physical targets (for fresh cases only) for West Bengal under the Scheme of Pre-matric Scholarship for students belonging to the Minority communities for the current Financial Year 2011-12 have been revised and enhanced by the Ministry of Minority Affairs. As per the revised target the total physical target has been set at 3,77,926 scholarships. Of...

New Delhi: Confederation of Indian Industry, as part of its initiatives under the aegis of Manufacturing, Innovation & Technology Subcommittee, organized a Conference on Innovation with the theme "Creating an Innovation Ecosystem for a Challenging Future" here in Kolkata today.
 
The purpose of the conference was to deliberate on the latest in innovation and ...

Kolkata: The state of West Bengal is poised to make a new beginning and healthcare is clearly one of the focus areas of the Government of West Bengal. The recent growth of private players in healthcare in Kolkata is in itself a success story. The growth of state-of-the-art speciality hospitals and the sustained need for specialist skills and consultancy is now tangible.

Kolkata: The West Bengal government has decided to put a mandatory clause in every new project asking "What kind of manpower would be required for it" to ensure that by the time the project nears completion in two-three years' time the required quality and type of manpower is available for it within the region. This was announced by Minister in-charge of the state's Com...