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Police To Assist Candidates To File Nominations: Kolkata High Court

Kolkata, June 14: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday issued an order to the State Election Commission asking it to direct all police authorities in the districts across the state to “assist” candidates who are not able to file nominations. Thursday is the last day for filing nominations for the…


IISER-K Conducts Mass Covid Test; 35 Students Positive

Mohanpur, Dec. 17: 35 students were detected positive during a mass RT-PCR test for Covid 19 conducted by the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata among its students living on the campus in Nadia’s Mohanpur near Kalyani early this week. While all the affected students have been…


CBSE Challenges High Court Order On Affiliation For Garden High School-IISER

Kolkata/Mohanpur, Aug. 17: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has filed an appeal before a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging an interim order passed by an earlier bench that had directed the issuance of provisional affiliation to the Garden High School-IISER, located on the IISER-Kolkata’s Mohanpur…


IISER-Kolkata Ranked 59th Among 100 Top Rising Institutions In The World

Mohanpur, May 19: The prestigious Nature index annual table 2020 rated the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – Kolkata (IISER-K) as one of the 100 topmost institutions across the globe, for its high quality, scientific research works. The Nature index ranked the IISER-K 59th in the category of top 100…


Protest March By IISER-K Students Against Brutality at JNU Campus

Around three hundred students attached Indian Institute of Science Education and Research -Kolkata {IISER K} walked along with students of some other premier institutions in Kalyani on Wednesday condemning the attack on students at the New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus. The students came out of their campus and…


“We Learn From Mistakes”, NASA Flight Engineer Ann Devereaux Said

Mohanpur, Sept. 25: The failures make the learning experience and help to overcome the mistakes. Ann Devereaux, a spacecraft system engineer at NASA and the lead flight system engineer of its Mars 2020 mission said this on Wednesday while delivering a public lecture at the Center of Excellence in Space…


IISER Kolkata To Introduce Study And Research Scopes On ‘Humanities’

Mohanpur: The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Kolkata (IISER-K) is all set to introduce “Humanities” as a independent department at its Mohanpur campus so that students can properly study different subjects under it as their elective subjects while undergoing their BS-MS dual degree course at the institute. The senate…


ISKCON To Launch Kolkata-Mayapur Cruise Service For Gaud Purnima Festival

Mayapur, Feb. 25: To help devotees interested to visit its temples in Mayapur on the occasion of ensuing Gaud Purnima festival set to begin this week, the Iskcon authorities will operate direct cruise services from Kolkata to Mayapur Ghat from February 28. The special cruise, titled as ‘Jaladuta1’ will run…


2 IISER-Kolkata Scientists Get Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize

Kalyani, Sept. 26: Two scientists from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Kolkata’s (IISER-K) Chemical Science department – Swadhin K Mandal and Rahul Banerjee – have been awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest science award in the country annually given by the Council of Scientific and Industrial…


কলকাতার বাঘবাড়ি : একটি বিস্মৃত অধ্যায়

সঞ্জিত দত্ত ২৯ জুলাই ‘বিশ্ব বাঘ দিবস (World Tiger Day)। নেট দুনিয়ার দৌলতে এবিষয়ে অনেকেই আজ কমবেশী অবগত আছেন।  লুপ্তপ্রায় বন্যপ্রাণী ‘ব্যাঘ্র’ সংরক্ষণ বিষয়ে সচেতনতা বাড়াতে ২০১০ সালে সেন্ট পিটারসবাগ সম্মেলনের প্রস্তাব মেনে সারা বিশ্বে দিবসটি পালন করা হয়। একসময় রাজা মহারাজাদের শখের শিকার এবং পরবর্তী যুগে চোরাশিকারীদের চোরা শিকারের…