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KMC launches clean-up drive to remove 'garbage black spots'

Kolkata, May 23 -- The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is launching a comprehensive one-week solid waste management drive from May 28 to June 3, aimed at addressing the city's growing concern over... Read More


France sees immigration shift as more educated Africans arrive than Europeans

France, May 23 -- More immigrants coming to France have degrees- and most now come from Africa rather than the rest of Europe, new figures from the country's statistics bureau show. Insee, France's n... Read More


A horticulturist bids adieu to the magnificent trees of TIFR

India, May 23 -- For over three decades, Rajendra Gumaste has tended to the acres of greenery in a pocket at the southern tip of Mumbai set up by scientist extraordinaire Homi Bhabha. Now, as he prepa... Read More


Career counselling videos to guide Class XI students launched

Kolkata, May 23 -- The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) has launched career counselling videos to guide Class XI students in choosing subjects. However, the initiative comes ... Read More


Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters wins richest book prize in Aotearoa

India, May 23 -- Professor Damien Wilkins, who leads Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington's IIML, has won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for his novel Delirious, published by ... Read More


Mongolian ambassador meets Speaker in Assembly

Kolkata, May 23 -- Mongolia ambassador Ganbold Dambajav met Speaker Biman Banerjee at the Assembly on Friday. Terming the meet as a courtesy call, Speaker Banerjee said that its main purpose would be ... Read More


Maharaja Cossimbazar Polytechnic Institute gets new computer lab

Kolkata, May 23 -- A state-of-the art computer lab was inaugurated on Friday at Maharaja Cossimbazar Polytechnic Institute, a heritage Higher Secondary educational institution in Bagbazar. The initia... Read More


'For female representation in judiciary': SC reinstates Rajasthan judicial officer

New Delhi, May 23 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday held that greater representation of women in judiciary will improve quality of judicial decision-making as it directed reinstatement of a lady judici... Read More


WBSSC jobs protest: HC directs protesting teachers to shift venue

Kolkata, May 23 -- The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the protesting teachers and non-teaching staff, who lost their jobs in the wake of a Supreme Court order in the WBSSC recruitment corrupti... Read More


Pune dowry death case: 3 police teams formed, more if needed, to track accused, says Ajit Pawar

India, May 23 -- Amid mounting outrage over Vaishnavi Hagawane's alleged death by suicide over dowry harassment, Maharashtra deputy chief minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Ajit Pawar... Read More