Delegates attend the 139th annual general meeting of Indian Tea Association (ITA) in Kolkata. Tea Board India’s chairman, Saurav Pahari, addressed the gathering. After the meeting, Pahari informed reporters that the board has asked for an assistance of Rs 1,000 crore in the budget submitted to the commerce industry
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Birla Industrial & Technological Museum (BITM), Kolkata, a Unit of National Council of Science Museums, commemorates International Science Centre and Science Museum Day (ISCSMD). Every year, ISCSMD is organised globally to highlight the impact of science centres and science museums. The aim is to highlight the way in which these institutions are instrumental in generating mass awareness about critical issues like climate change, human health, energy, waste, water shortages, gender, oceans and other global issues
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A priest offers prayers (above) as men haul a ‘chhot’ boat, that was rebuilt on the banks of the Rupnarayan in Howrah, during its inauguration. The once lost sea-faring wooden boat of Bengal was recreated using century-old technology by veteran boat-maker Panchanan Mondal and his team of artisans in an initiative by anthropologist Swarup Bhattacharyya, funded by British Museum’s Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
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Dr Atiur Rahman, honorary professor of the Department of Development Studies, Dhaka University and currently Bangabandhu Chair Professor at the Department of History, Dhaka University, addresses attendees of a conference titled ‘Indo-Bangla Ties: Role of Education, Healthcare in Bridging Social Infrastructural Gap.’ He was the chief guest of the event which was organised at Kolkata Press Club on Thursday
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