Bengal school jobs scam: CBI questions two TMC councillorsThe probe agency had conducted search operations at Chakraborty's residence and offices in November last year. Several leaders of the rulin...
25 Jan, 2024, 04.33 PM IST
The Advertising Club names BCCL’s Partha Sinha as presidentThe club also elected other office bearers: Rana Barua (vice president), Shashi Sinha (secretary), Mitrajit Bhattacharya (joint secretary) ...
04 Sep, 2021, 09.16 AM IST
BJP urges EC to scan 'Mamata audio clip' on rally with Cooch Behar victims' bodiesThe TMC has already described the audio clip as "bogus" and said no such conversation took place.
17 Apr, 2021, 02.16 PM IST
Earth Overshoot Day: The day the annual budget of nature’s resources are used upSince the 1950s, and more so in recent decades, humanity has prospered immensely but this has had an overwhelming impact on biodiversity.
22 Aug, 2020, 05.49 PM IST
Earth Overshoot Day: A reminder that our demand outstrips the planet’s ability to supplyThis time, the estimated annual consumption of nature’s resources, which started on January 1, was stretched by an extra three weeks to Aug...
21 Aug, 2020, 11.51 PM IST
Ministries pooling data to account for environmental damage in GDPThe work has just started on the system which can eventually yield benchmarks such as sustainability index and biodiversity index.
20 Aug, 2016, 07.15 AM IST
'Distribution of relief materials in flood-hit districts top priority now'Mamata accorded 'top priority' to distribution of relief materials and reconstruction work in flood-affected districts even as the oppositi...
18 Aug, 2015, 10.30 PM IST
Kolkata scientist duo on the verge of cancer breakthrough using dopamineThe two researchers say it also starves cancerous tumours of blood, causing them to shrink and eventually vanish.
05 Aug, 2015, 02.39 PM IST
Amartya Sen, Raghuram Rajan, Arundhati Roy among 5 Indians in the running for top world thinker titleThe 2014 list has four Indian economists — Amartya Sen, Kaushik Basu, Partha Dasgupta and Raghuram Rajan. The other entry from India Arundh...
28 Mar, 2014, 10.27 AM IST
13 more parliamentary secretaries appointed in BengalWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today appointed 13 parliamentary secretaries.
03 Jan, 2014, 04.04 PM IST
- Group formed to foster India, Cambridge collaboration
A select group of 24 senior Indian business leaders, government figures and educationists has been created to guide and assist the extensiv...
04 Sep, 2013, 09.23 PM IST
- West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan to visit Presidency university today
The Governor, also the Chancellor, would visit the university in the afternoon, Raj Bhavan sources said.
12 Apr, 2013, 02.23 PM IST
Govt planning to shift focus from measuring GDP to economy's productive capacityPartha Dasgupta proposes broader measure of economic progress based on economy's prodctive capacity.
06 Apr, 2013, 06.48 AM IST
Partha Dasgupta panel shuns GDP based model of growthThe panel has provided a roadmap with timelines for a system of evaluating economic progress that includes the value of the stock of countr...
06 Apr, 2013, 04.06 AM IST
- Wealth should be basis for evaluating economic growth: Government panel
The current system of national accounts focused on the gross domestic product suffers from extreme narrowness as it doesn’t take into accou...
04 Apr, 2013, 06.18 PM IST
- India among top 5 countries in creating inclusive wealth: Report
Inclusive Wealth Report 2012, published recently by the United Nations, finds India among the top 5 countries in creating inclusive wealth.
07 Jul, 2012, 05.17 AM IST
- 18.3 per cent polling in first two hours of voting in WB
An electorate of 1.44 cr would decide the fate of 479 candidates including CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and 11 ministers in this phase.
27 Apr, 2011, 11.13 AM IST