From Theatre to Medicine: The story of RG Kar, the man who revolutionized medical education in BengalRadha Gobinda Kar, born in 1850, was a pioneering physician who founded the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. Initially pas...
25 Aug, 2024, 10.57 AM IST
Kolkata Rape-Murder Case: Who is Dr Sandip Ghosh? His rise to prominence and past controversiesDr. Sandip Ghosh, who resigned as principal of RG Kar Medical College after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor, has been repeatedly su...
20 Aug, 2024, 12.36 PM IST
Online deliveries in deep water after heavy rains as monsoon lashes northern IndiaHeavy rains in urban areas, including Delhi and the National Capital Region, have severely affected online deliveries. The flooding of road...
11 Jul, 2023, 06.15 AM IST
Portrait Of A Lady: At the age of 19, Anandi Gopal Joshi, the first female doctor of India, obtained an MD in USOn this National Doctor's Day, let us get to know India’s first female doctor Anandi Gopal Joshi. She was also the first Indian woman to ob...
01 Jul, 2023, 04.37 PM IST
Salesforce's Arundhati Bhattacharya on leadership, her journey in the corporate sector and moreIn her book, “Indomitable - A working woman’s notes on life, work and leadership” – Bhattacharya has chronicled a working woman’s experienc...
13 Nov, 2022, 06.11 AM IST
Arrested Trinamool Minister Partha Chatterjee reaches Bhubaneswar AIIMS by air ambulanceThe medical board, with four-member team of doctors, have been formed-at AIIMS Bhubaneswar which will conduct tests and monitor his health ...
25 Jul, 2022, 01.43 PM IST
Calcutta HC directs ED to take arrested Bengal minister to AIIMS BhubaneswarAfter hearing pleadings in a revision application moved by the ED challenging a lower court order sending Chatterjee to state-run SSKM Hosp...
24 Jul, 2022, 10.13 PM IST
Nigeria returnee tests positive for COVID in Bengal; samples collected for genome sequencingTwo more persons - one woman from the UK and another from Bangladesh, were kept in institutional quarantine after they were found infected ...
18 Dec, 2021, 09.37 PM IST
Cyclonic storm ‘Yaas’ to make landfall between Paradeep in Odisha and Sagar Island in West Bengal“East Midnapore and parts of South 24 Parganas will be affected due to the severe cyclone Yaas and gale speed of 155-165 kmph. After the la...
24 May, 2021, 08.15 PM IST
View: India needs more than curve-flattening curbsMigrant labourers and the homeless should be provided shelter and food in small groups in large convention halls, schools, parks, and stadi...
08 Apr, 2020, 11.21 PM IST
- Google Doodle honours India's first US-trained female doctor
Mumbai, March 31 (IANS) Google on Saturday created a special Doodle to mark the 153rd birth anniversary of Thane-born Anandi Gopal Joshi, r...
31 Mar, 2018, 02.02 PM IST
More adoption schemes at Alipore zoo soonThe Alipore zoo will announce new adoption schemes immediately after the Pujas.
10 Sep, 2014, 11.22 AM IST
West Bengal’s Maldaha hit by fatal Litchi syndromeMuzaffarpur district of Bihar, another major Litchi producing region had badly suffered with the same disease in 2012 during harvesting in ...
07 Jun, 2014, 06.09 PM IST
- Kolkata's FIEM setting up Future School of Architecture and Design
Kolkata's Future Institute of Engineering and Management (FIEM), formed by core academicians and professionals from IIM Calcutta, IIT Khara...
18 Mar, 2013, 05.43 PM IST
- IIM Calcutta’s 2012-14 batch has around 77% of students with previous work experience
IIM Calcutta’s 462-strong batch of 2012-14 has around 77% of students with previous work experience, as compared to 68% in the last batch.
07 Aug, 2012, 08.35 PM IST
- IIM Calcutta fulfills 27% OBC quota in admission
IIM Calcutta has met the union ministry of HRD’s directive to fulfil the 27% OBC quota in admissions with some 462 students.
26 Jul, 2011, 02.40 PM IST
- B-schools on top
As admissions across B-schools in the country have shown, intake of students has gone up. Recession, say industry experts, is bringing with...
12 Jan, 2009, 01.43 AM IST