Automobile emission, the primary reason behind air pollution in Calcutta, is on the rise. Here's the low-down on the role of the green watchdogs the environment department and the pollution control board (PCB), a statutory body under the department in tackling the menace...
Amazing spectacle from start to finish on cardsSince I first heard of this concept, the IPL and its proposed delivery, to the time when we are only a day away from the inaugural game, my excitement continues to grow.
Commerce meets cricket, at fine legThe girl screwed up her eyes against the sun and asked: “What’s the name of the game again?”
Brijesh Patel, swashbuckler of yore turned mover-shaker of the Karnataka Cricket Association, let out a sardonic little grunt and said: “Cricket, it’s called cricket.”
B...
Star’s song saves the dayCalcutta, April 20: Tonight was solely on the spur of a song four words long. Korbo, lorbo, jeetbo re… korbo, lorbo, jeetbo re….
Sourav Ganguly’s Knight Riders had very little going for them for the better part of their riposte to the Deccan Chargers’ modest 110...
Pitch-dark: old habits die hard Calcutta, April 20: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s old Calcutta tonight spoiled the introduction of Shah Rukh Khan’s Calcutta to new-age cricket.
A 31-minute floodlight failure, a dead scorecard and waterless toilets at the Eden reinforced the city’s reputation for mismanagem...
I’m the energy for this team: SRKThe Kolkata Knight Riders’ owner, Shah Rukh Khan, spoke to The Telegraph soon after his team’s five-wicket win over the rather highly rated Deccan Chargers of Hyderabad on Sunday.
The following are excerpts...
Thoughts on the Knight Riders’ second...
Knights ride David Hussey knock to tame ChargersThe city’s first tryst with Twenty20 cricket with an international flavour had all the elements to make it special — drama, tension, fireworks, character, glitz and glamour. To cap it all on a Super Sunday, the hosts emerged triumphant.
A 31-minute stoppage because...
Shocking pitch: LaxmanV.V.S. Laxman blamed the Eden Gardens wicket and the power failure for Sunday’s loss to Kolkata Knight Riders. The Deccan Chargers captain also said he was happy with the team’s performance.
The following are excerpts...
Are you happy with the way D...
My dream came true: HusseyDavid Hussey said he would have preferred a fast bouncy wicket at the Eden. Nevertheless he was happy that Kolkata Knight Riders players showed character to pull off a thrilling victory.
The following are excerpts...
The pitch
Not ideal for Twenty20 cric...
Kids test their abacus skillsLast Sunday was eventful for all abacus fans. Two contests were held in the city to spot the sharpest ones.
Armed with the abacus - either in hand or in the mind - 1,500 school kids raced against time at the St Xavier's College auditorium on Sunday April 20. They were ...
Ready for actionFor students of Mahadevi Birla, school days are a heady cocktail of work and play.
This is one school where sport is not just an extracurricular activity. At Mahadevi Birla Girls' Higher Secondary School, swimming and skating classes are compulsory. And these are just ...
Sree tells ‘scuffle’ storyApril 27: Kings XI Punjab cricketer S. Sreesanth has said Harbhajan Singh’s Mohali blow was more a “scuffle” than a “slap”, ahead of the disciplinary hearing in New Delhi tomorrow.
“I had gone to shake hands but it was really like hitting me. It was really ...
Cool Sreesanth takes things in strideThe body language was different. There were no frayed tempers and no tears shed on Sunday as Sreesanth shook hands with the Delhi DareDevils after Kings XI Punjab won convincingly.
The ceremonial handshakes, this time, were conducted well inside the boundary line. On Friday, a...
Our behaviour has to be exemplary: BuchananSourav Ganguly and Co. were, on Sunday, reminded that their behaviour had to be “exemplary” on and off the field during the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL).
Actually, all 365 days of the year.
The reminder came from the Kolkata Knight Riders’ coach, J...
Roadmap for budding scribesStudents of Calcutta University (CU) and NSHM Knowledge Campus organised an interaction between students of mass communication from the two institutions and James Richard Dickenson, a veteran correspondent and political editor of The Washington Post, USA, on April 24. The 75-y...
Special kids shake a legRehabilitation Centre For Children (RCFC) - a resource institute for children with or thopaedic disability - celebrated its 35th Foundation Day on April 24 in its first-floor auditorium.
To mark the special occasion, children danced to the popular tune Dhadina Natina w...
Green reliefThe Ramdhanu Park has become an integral part of the life of the people of the Golf Garden’s area of Prince Gulam Muhammad Shah Road. Built a few years ago, it has greatly affected the lifestyle of the residents of the locality. With a wide stretch of grass running around a sma...
Chetan’s 3 Mistakes The ‘biggest selling English language novelist in India's history’, according to The New York Times, Chetan Bhagat, was in the city on Sunday, to launch and promote his new novel, ‘The 3 mistakes of my life’. A chorus of questions was heard from the crowd waiting to gr...
There’s a great deal of patience and belief in what we’re doingWe have played four successive matches for four losses. The last three being against Mumbai Indians at home, Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur and finally being beaten in a close finish to Kings XI Punjab in Chandigarh — certainly not what we wanted at this point of the season, nor...
Salman Butt itching to make presence feltSalman Butt is in the Kolkata Knight Riders’ XIV for Thursday’s faceoff against the Bangalore Royal Challengers, but it’s to the XI that he’s itching to return.
“I guess the Indian Premier League (IPL) rule about fielding only four overseas players is working...
DareDevils have the advantageFive days after routing the Chennai Super Kings at the Chepauk, Virender Sehwag’s Delhi DareDevils are hoping for an encore when the two teams meet in the return match of the IPL at the Kotla Thursday.
With Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir back to familiar surround...
No way to walk!It was supposed to be a footpath, but has now become a mini bazar! The footpath along Garia Main Road, has now become a hotspot for roadside hawkers.
The road that stretches from Raja S.C. Mullick Road, towards Boral Main Road, is now covered with the roadside food sta...
Young, drunk and hipJojo Roy, a high school student returns home late, drunk and exhausted. He sneaks in through the back gate, fearing he might get caught. The excuse for this late coming, if his parents ask, would be visiting a pal's b'day party. He was in a city pub, all this while, fagging &...
The Ramakrishna PathagarUniqueness is the right word to describe the Ramakrishna Pathagar a unit of the Belur Math Ramakrishna Mission at Indrani Park on Prince Anwar Shah Road. With the initiation of the idea in 1958, and the acquiring of a suitable plot of land where a single-roomed structure was cons...
The further adventures of the fedora and whipBy MANOHLA DARGIS
Published in The New York Times of May 22, 2008
CANNES, France — “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is a movie for boomers of all ages, though you can bet the bank that plenty of tots will be tagging along with Mom and Dad, Granny and...
'War' of 'Words'?Scrabulous, the e-version of the word game "Scrabble" was developed by the Agarwalla brothers--Jayant and Rajat, the alumni of St. Xavier's College, Kolkata- keeping in mind the huge popularity of computer games in India.
When the game was first introduced on the socia...
The food zone down the road…Although, someday it might have housed just a bakery, today, it has many more options to offer. The shops lining the Lord's Bakery crossing in the Lake Gardens area of Prince Anwar Shah Road have an exclusive common feature—they cater indulgingly to the taste buds of the loc...
Grand revival plan for Chinatown legacyDeserted by 70 per cent of its inhabitants and left to rot by the civic authorities, the city’s decrepit Chinese quarter is suddenly getting the attention denied to it for four decades.
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) on Monday announced plans to preserve “200-odd...
Brush with successImagine getting so bored in the summer holidays that you do something a bit out of the ordinary. And before you know, that little something earns you a ticket to fame.
That is how life has panned out for Tirthanu Ghosh. “I had nothing to do. So I called up a phone number tel...
To guru with loveIt was Ashmita Mohanty’s big day. The child prodigy was chosen to present Guru Pranam at Gyan Manch on June 17, as part of a tribute to Padmabibhushana Kelucharan Mohapatra organised by Shinjan Nrityalaya.
Wearing a red and blue costume and heavy silver ornaments, Ashmita ...
To guru with loveIt was Ashmita Mohanty’s big day. The child prodigy was chosen to present Guru Pranam at Gyan Manch on June 17, as part of a tribute to Padmabibhushana Kelucharan Mohapatra organised by Shinjan Nrityalaya.
Wearing a red and blue costume and heavy silver ornaments, Ashmita ...
Learning science the mad wayA scientific principle can be taught as scores of black letters and a couple of diagrams. Or it could take the form of a discovery, leaping out of books through exciting experiments.
Instead of reading about a rocket, one could also build one that not only launches at count do...
School of rockFor the budding musicians of St James’ School, picking up trophies at prestigious rock competitions in the city is a fairly routine affair. With the guitar, drums, keyboard and the vocalist synchronising in a perfect crescendo, they are a hard team to beat in the fest circui...
Bye bye Bypass?The day was June 30. The time was past 11.15 am. I was still on the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, close to the newly inaugurated Mani Square shopping mall. I was a bundle of nerves, as I had to reach Belgharia for my university exams. At the moment, I had only one thought: “Will...
Locked in a war of wordsIt was a pitched battle as 16 students locked horns over the topic ‘The women’s reservation bill is a threat to male dominance’, at the eastern zonal finals of the ninth inter- institutional L N Birla Memorial debate, held at the Vidya Mandir auditorium.
A prelim...
Art for nature’s sakeYuksum is a five and half hour journey from Gangtok. The government senior school of Yuksum doesn’t have an auditorium. The only kind of theatre youngsters get to see are street plays. Yet the students were at the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, staging their play...
Exchange of knowledgeClassroom lessons for students of Calcutta International School (CIS) goes beyond the chalk-and-talk method. Working in collaboration with College Marx Dormoy in Paris, the two institutions publish French magazines every year and exchange it between themselves.
“We t...
Book world boundWith the Internet, television and video games claiming students’ short attention span, books are being relegated to the background. The Cambridge School, near Hazra, has come up with a novel concept for taking youngsters back to the written word.
Throughout July, the school ...
Mental math, the Vedic wayHave you ever tried to do not-so-simple calculations in your head? Chances are you had to either reach for a piece of paper or worse, a calculator. But there is a method that lets you develop high speed calculation skills — without external aid.
“Vedic mathematics gives yo...
Howrah boy bags goldThis boy is on the road to success. After securing second position in medicine in the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination, Subhrashis Guha Niyogi of Howrah has added yet another feather to his cap by winning gold at the 19th International Biology Olympiad (IBO, 2008).
“I ...
Helping hand for needyNinety students from three faculties of Jadavpur University (JU) joined hands to supply clothes and other items of daily use to pavement dwellers. The project that took off on July 5, was the initiative of the varsity’s National Service Scheme unit.
“Every year our student...
No child’s play, this!Diwali, the festival celebrated with lights, sound and mirth, is a time when the changing face of culture can be clearly noticed. It almost seems like the dawn of new India has extinguished the flames of Diwali to a great extent. With new, innovative firecrackers replacing the...
Echoes from SwitzerlandMy friend and I arrived in Geneva quite late at night on the 20th of June last year, and headed straight (the route literally was a long straight road) to the youth hostel where we’d booked a room for two. For me, it was the first time in a youth hostel, and surprised I was. No...
Multiple intelligence: Is your child a genius?I came upon the concept of multiple intelligence or MI during my research while writing
Roots and Wings – A Handbook for Parents. The theory had me completely stumped. Initially, the lines that jolted me were: ‘Which parents cannot see gleaming rays of genius in thei...
Christmas- A different viewChristmas is invariably portrayed in the backdrop of snow, even though Christmas and snow are not always concomitant. While it snows only in the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere, it is summer in most of the areas of the other half.
Snow nevertheless shows up as a do...
The school of loveDespite having strict norms in place, the co-ed schools see many love stories flourish on Valentine’s Day— under, perhaps, the indulging watchfulness of the teaching staff. That’s what schoolteacher Madhurima Mukhopadhyay guesses, as she walks down t...
Throwing the shoesThomas Bata has been famously described as one ‘born to shoe people’. So successfully did he, or rather the company founded by him, ‘shoe’ people that his four-letter surname became synonymous with shoes. Tagore’s poem on the discovery of shoes revealed how inconveni...
State of the NationLet us wait and pause for a second,
And give a thought as to where we as a Nation are heading.
The country which has a glorious past and royal history,
Is Today besieged by growing population and vicious circle of poverty.
A Nation takes pride in ...
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