India and France have inked a roadmap to enhance their bilateral exchanges on the blue economy and forge a common vision of ocean governance based on the rule of law and cooperate on sustainable and resilient coastal and waterways infrastructure.
Purryag is scheduled to visit Wajitpur village in Punpun block of Patna district to get a feel of the place that his ancestors had left behind to sail to Mauritius decades ago.
Heads of foreign governments continue to discover their roots in Bihar . After the Prime Ministers of Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago, it is now the turn of Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purryag to visit the land of his forefathers in the state.
A discovery which led to a new surgical technique for a rare and extremely serious birth defect in urinary system has found a place in an international multi-volume textbook of plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgery.
The team of doctors led by head of pediatric surgery department of KGMU, Prof SN Kureel, and comprising Dr Archika Gupta and Dr Sunil Kanoujia is credited with the discovery.
The achievement in the field of exstrophy-epispadias has been included in ‘Thieme Medical Publisher’ —an American German medical and science publisher.
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.
I am deeply honoured that the Sahitya Akademi have decided to acknowledge my efforts to translate the fiction of Mahasweta Devi.
I want to begin by thanking Mahasweta Devi for writing such spectacular prose. I want to thank my parents, Pares Chandra Chakravorty and Sivani Chakravorty for bringing me up in a household that was acutely conscious of the riches of Bangla. My father was a doctor. But we children were always reminded that my father’s Bangla essay for his matriculation examination had been praised by Tagore himself.
Senior Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal Minister Sadhan Pande passed away on February 20. He was 71 and was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Mumbai.
Mr. Pande was a nine-time MLA from north Kolkata. For the first six terms, he represented Burtola Assembly segment as a Congress representative. Since 2011, he represented Manicktala Assembly segment as a Trinamool Congress MLA.
Mr. Pande was Minister of Consumer Affairs in the West Bengal government.
Bihar’s 22-year-old batter Sakibul Gani etched his name on the history books by breaking the record for the highest individual score by a cricketer on first-class debut.
Becoming the first batter to score a triple hundred on first-class debut, Gani amassed 341 runs off just 405 balls with the help of 56 fours and 2 sixes in a Ranji Trophy Plate Group match against Mizoram at Jadavpur University Campus 2nd Ground in Kolkata on Friday. He maintained a strike rate of 84.20.
Having visited over 70 countries and authored ten books on his travels, Omani mountaineer and adventurer Khalid Said al Anqudi has yet another literary work detailing picturesque India and its colourful traditions.
Titled Al Mahraja (The King), the book covers majestic mountains, customs and traditions and details of Anqudi’s adventures in India.
Speaking to Muscat Daily, Anqudi said, “I wrote the book in 2021. It will be launched at the 26th Muscat International Book Fair starting on February 24.”
Bappi Lahiri delivered popular songs in several films of the late 1970s-80s.
Rare sculptures with unique iconographical features dating back to the 8th century AD were found at Bhattugudem village of Peddavura mandal in Nalgonda district.
According to E. Sivanagireddy, archaeologist and CEO of Pleach India Foundation, sculptures of Brahma and Bhairava in front of the Kameswara temple of the village were found.
IndiGo on Friday tested a flight with 10% blend of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Its brand new A320 Neo flew from Toulouse in France on Thursday and landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Friday powered by a blend of SAF.