Bihar jail prepares hanging ropes purportedly for execution of Nirbhaya rapists and killers
Dec 16, 2019, at 07:38 pm
Buxar, Bihar/UNI: The prisoners in Buxar Central jail are preparing ten hanging ropes popular as “Manila Ropes”, for execution of capital punishments.
EDII trains over 550 Bijoypur silk artisans in West Bengal’s Murshidabad under SFURTI
Dec 16, 2019, at 05:26 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), an acknowledged National Resource Institute for Entrepreneurship Education, Research, Training and Institution Building, will be training over 550 Bijoypur Silk artisans in the aspirational district of Murshidabad, West Bengal.
Enjoy special festive desserts at Kolkata's Fabcafe by Fabindia
Dec 16, 2019, at 12:15 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Fabcafe by Fabindia is ready to add momentum to Kolkata's Christmas and New Year celebrations with a range of organic desserts.
HUL brings global mayonnaise brand Hellmann’s to Indian market
Dec 16, 2019, at 12:09 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Hindustan Unilever Ltd chose Kolkata as the launch pad for introducing the popular global mayonnaise brand Hellmann’s in India.
Sixth Shoppers Stop outlet opens in Kolkata, store layout designed for customer ease
Dec 16, 2019, at 12:05 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Shoppers Stop, a popular Indian lifestyle brand, heads to the eastern part of Kolkata, opening its sixth store in Mani Square Mall.
Dust Under Her Feet is a result of my American and Bengali identities: Author Sharbari Ahmed
Dec 13, 2019, at 03:59 pm
On a winter evening in Kolkata, author Sharbari Ahmed was the guest at An Author's Afternoon presented by Shree Cement Ltd and organised by the Prabha Khaitan Foundation in association with Taj Bengal Kolkata. IBNS correspondent Souvik Ghosh brings excerpts of her extensive conversation on her book Dust Under Her Feet , a tale of wartime Calcutta in 1940s
Monkey Bar turns a Jolly Good Fellow with an early start to the year end celebrations
Dec 12, 2019, at 10:11 pm
Kolkata: Monkey Bar, a popular multi-city gastropub, is ringing in the festive season with a special spread, which aims to turn the lights on the Anglo-Indian community, a community which played a significant role in building India.
Ohayo Gozaimasu Japan – here come India’s skilled workers
Dec 12, 2019, at 09:55 pm
Tokyo/IBNS: Twenty-three-year-old S. Silambarasan is excited about working in Nagoya Japan. The engineering graduate from Tamil Nadu seems to have none of the trepidation associated with adapting to a different culture, food and language.
Dec 12, 2019, at 09:20 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: New Delhi based Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts is holding a special exhibition until January 10, 2020, on the works of Haku Shah (1934 – 2019), the reticent artist who grew up in an environment inspired by Gandhian thoughts and philosophy.
Dapper presents Sushant Abrol's Beyond the Clouds collection in a special edit on Friday
Dec 12, 2019, at 09:16 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: If you are looking for some desginer clothing for this festive season, then do not miss Sushant Abrol’s ‘Beyond the Clouds’ edit in Kolkata on Friday.
Calcutta's oldest cricket club CC&FC keeps itself young with lights and celebrations
Dec 12, 2019, at 02:23 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Kolkata's iconic Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (CCFC) recently kicked off the festive and sports season by lighting its sports ground that will remain illuminated till Dec 31.
Dec 11, 2019, at 06:38 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: TikTok, a short video platform, conducted an NGO training program in Kolkata in collaboration with leading social enterprises, Josh Talks and MASH Project Foundation.
Dec 11, 2019, at 11:32 am
Kolkata/IBNS: I want my audience to cry as you read the novel, said Novoneel Chakraborty, one of India's bestselling fiction writers of the romantic thriller genre as he launched his latest, Roses are Blood Red, where he "presents a lover who would make readers wonder if such a man exists".
Dec 11, 2019, at 02:10 am
Oslo/IBNS: Indian social welfare activist and cultural patron Sundeep Bhutoria on Tuesday met Ethiopian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2019 Dr Abiy Ahmed Ali at the Nobel Peace Prize 2019 Award Ceremony in the Norwegian capital of Oslo.
KASHISH 2020 poster contest is now inviting entries, Wendell Rodricks will select winner
Dec 10, 2019, at 07:24 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: The 11th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival returns to Mumbai in May 2020.
Skulpt Kolkata offers a month long special fitness session for the brides and grooms
Dec 10, 2019, at 06:43 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Skulpt, one of the largest gymnasiums with state of the art amenities in Kolkata, has an answer to all those who are worried if they will be fit and picture perfect on their wedding day after all the pre-wedding running around.
IIT Kharagpur announces scholarship for Australian Doctoral students
Dec 10, 2019, at 06:39 pm
Kolkata, Dec 10 (UNI) In a significant boost to its ongoing academic exchange programme with Australian institutions, IIT Kharagpur has instituted competitive high-value scholarships for students from the University of Melbourne, Australia enrolled under the Dual Doctoral Programme jointly conducted by the two institutions.
Dec 10, 2019, at 03:39 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: On the occasion of the State Visit by King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden, Team Sweden, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, FICCI Ladies organization and Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog recently organized the Tekla Festival in Mumbai.
Pepsi announces Salman Khan as brand ambassador
Dec 10, 2019, at 03:31 pm
Kolkata / New Delhi/IBNS: Pepsi India has named Bollywood superstar Salman Khan as their brand ambassador.
Avik Chanda’s book Dara Shukoh The Man Who Would Be King launched in Kolkata
Dec 10, 2019, at 03:17 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Kolkata’s leading bookstore chain Starmark, in association with HarperCollins India, hosted the launch of entrepreneur-writer Avik Chanda’s book ‘Dara Shukoh The Man Who Would Be King’ at its South City Mall outlet recently.
Vadodara-based Gallery Ark to showcase senior ceramic artists' creations
Dec 09, 2019, at 10:34 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Works of senior artists like Jyotsna Bhatt, Ira Chaudhuri and Savia Mahajan will be on display at the Vadodara-based Gallery Ark's upcoming exhibition 'Elements in Mythology', focussing on ceramics and pottery.
Retail store Kamala inaugurates Christmas Bazaar
Dec 09, 2019, at 08:13 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The Christmas Bazaar of Kamala- the retail store of the Craft Council of India- was inaugurated on Dec 7.
Vintage Kolkata club CCFC invites winter celebrations with special Paul John whisky tasting session
Dec 09, 2019, at 08:03 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: With winter knocking at the door and Kolkata getting ready for grand parties, the Calcutta Cricket & Football Club (CC&FC), one of the oldest in the city, recently arranged for a whisky tasting session in collaboration with Paul John Whisky, a premier Indian brand.
Dec 09, 2019, at 07:18 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Not many people know that the US Consulate General in Kolkata enjoys a preeminent place in the history of American diplomacy as one of the oldest American Consulates anywhere in the world, and the oldest in India.
Dec 09, 2019, at 04:37 pm
Jaipur/IBNS: The Government of Rajasthan and Piramal School of Leadership (PSL), an initiative of Piramal Foundation, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to transform Jhunjhunu district into an ‘Innovation Hub for Excellence in School Education’, over a period of 5 years.
The Voice Company re-invents the Picture Dictionary for street children
Dec 08, 2019, at 12:29 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Five-year old Lata, a little girl growing up in one of Mumbai’s overcrowded slums, won’t be learning the alphabet the same way as her peers sitting in nursery classes. Yes, the ABCs will be the same, but what they stand for are very different - drawing upon her own life experiences so that she can relate better to the words.
Bengal's flautist cop enthralls audience at ICCR recital
Dec 08, 2019, at 11:47 am
Kolkata/IBNS: It is not very often that a police officer entertains city’s elite music aficionados. But Indrajit Basu, Additional Superintendent of Police (Zonal) Baruipur Police district, recently enthralled the audience with his flute recital at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). He was accompanied by Soumen Sarkar on tabla.
Dec 07, 2019, at 10:27 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Every child has a story to tell and adults need to hear these stories, said veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee while attending a programme organised by CRY – Child Rights and You, to celebrate four decades of the Indian non-profit organisation’s journey.
STEPapp gamifies learning for K-12 students; Amitabh Bachchan urge students to be self-reliant
Dec 07, 2019, at 04:51 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Apna kal khud banao’ (‘you should build your own future’) was veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan’s message to students during the recent unveiling of the gamified learning ed-tech app, called STEP-app, in Mumbai.
An estimated 1 in 4 children and young people have problematic smartphone usage: Study
Dec 04, 2019, at 09:48 am
London/IBNS: A study by researchers at King’s College London has estimated that one in four children and young people use their smartphones in a way that is consistent with a behavioural addiction. The research was published today in BMC Psychiatry.