Yahoo! expands language base with launch of Bengali service
February 8th, 2012 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) Yahoo! India and Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) Wednesday announced a partnership to deliver premium digital content in Bengali to the Indian Internet audience.The co-branded property ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Indian newspapers love politics and business
March 27th, 2011 - 1:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) Guess what hogs the news? In a country plagued by rural problems and social ills, it's politics and business that find the maximum coverage ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Kolkata dailies laud Mamata’s budget, CPI-M critical
February 26th, 2011 - 6:56 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) People of West Bengal Saturday woke up to banner headlines in language newspapers that have sung paeans to Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for showering goodies on the ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Eminent litterateur and scribe Moti Nandi dead (Lead)
January 3rd, 2010 - 10:45 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) Sahitya Akademi Award winning litterateur and eminent sports journalist Moti Nandi died at a city hospital Sunday after a prolonged illness, family sources said.
Nandi, 79, was a diabetic ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
Litterateur-journalist Moti Nandi is dead
January 3rd, 2010 - 3:03 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) Sahitya Akademi award winner and eminent sports journalist Moti Nandi died at a city hospital Sunday after a prolonged illness, his family said. He was 79.
Nandi was a ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Line drawing master Samir Biswas captures city on move
October 21st, 2008 - 5:16 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Line drawings of cityscapes and old buildings in water colours are now the stuff of school history texts. The ink and water colour series of Kolkata-based master ... Read more...
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Hoax call sets alarm in Kolkata
September 25th, 2008 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 25 (IANS) A hoax phone call about a possible bomb planted at the Calcutta High Court Thursday set the police on alert."The city police control room received an anonymous phone ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Bengali mega-show casts spell on Toronto
July 5th, 2008 - 1:54 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, July 5 (IANS) The heart of Toronto city turned into a mini-Bengal as more than 50,000 Bengalis from North America and India descended on the Metro Toronto Convention Centre ... Read more...
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Veteran journalist Barun Sengupta dead
June 19th, 2008 - 9:48 pm ICT by IANS
KolKata, June 19 (IANS) Senior journalist and founder-Editor of Bengali daily 'Bartaman' Barun Sengupta died after a prolonged illness at a city nursing home here Thursday, sources in the daily said. Sengupta ... Read more...
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