As the country gets ready to celebrate its 75th Independence Day next week, the occasion has made business brisk for National Flag-maker Raju Haldar, 46, whose family has been churning out millions of Tricolours since 1947 from their home at Unsani in Howrah.
Read MoreFriendship Day is here and it is time to rejoice and celebrate your bond with your buddies. Relive the childhood days or the time when you became friends with a nice outing, dinner or lunch, break into a dance, laugh at the funny memories but before that do not forget to wish your friend...
Read More6-year-old tortured by parents to ‘drive away evil spirit’, dies
Read MoreA group of miscreants, disguised as patients, shot at a rival gang member, Totan Biswas, at Chinsurah Imambara Hospital, where he was taken for routine test on Saturday.
Read MorePhilanthropy runs in the family of this young businessman. According to Saket Mohta, managing director of Merlin Group, it’s from his father that he got inspiration to do welfare activities. He says, “It is our responsibility to contribute to the society and environment where we live in. So, we rechristened the name of our...
Read MoreISRO has recognized Gujarat Council on Science & Technology as ‘space tutor’ to carry out space education among students and citizens in the state.
Read MoreThe state registered 225 fresh Covid cases and one death in the last 24 hours. With this, the state’s Covid toll has increased to 12,285.
Read MoreFive Bagdogra-bound flights were diverted to Kolkata due to bad weather in North Bengal. Among the flights diverted was an Air Asia flight from Delhi and a SpiceJet flight from Mumbai.
Read MoreThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert – probability of heavy to very heavy rainfall – for Kolhapur and Satara districts till Tuesday.
Read MoreAfter a gap of about a decade, the state government has allowed government primary schools to hire music teachers. The education department recently gave its permission to district education and district primary education officers to hire a total of 1,753 music teachers on honorarium basis.
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