Anjan Bose

Tollywood shooting has been suspended following actor Rahul Arunoday Banerjee's death on Talsari beach due to safety concerns. An FIR has been filed against five members of the production house for negligence and misrepresentation of facts, as alleged by the actor's wife.

In a historic first for Bengali cinema, the trailer and poster for Adamya were unveiled at Rajpur Vidyanidhi High School, coinciding with poet Sukanta Bhattacharya's birth centenary. Directed by Ranjan Ghosh, the film's launch at the 1869-established school, attended by industry stalwarts, celebrated resilience and the human spirit.

The film 'Kalkokkho', directed by Rajdeep Paul and Sarmistha Maiti, recently won the National Award for Best Bengali Feature Film, presented to producer Anjan Bose by President Droupadi Murmu. The story, reflecting the COVID-19 pandemic's despair, revolves around a doctor's transformative experience when kidnapped by a paranoid woman. With a cast led by Sreelekha Mukherji and Janardan Ghosh, the film premiered at the Busan International Film Festival, hindered by pandemic-related travel restrictions.

NATHEALTH vouches for subsidy on medical equipment import

IIT Alumni Industry Interaction Centre, Chennai has already helped identify 50 global institutions and Indian academics for building long-lasting relations with Indian institutes that may include some top professors teaching a full course or a whole semester in India, officials said.

NATHEALTH, a unique forum comprising of both healthcare providers and medical technology companies, have strongly opposed inclusion of cardiac stents in the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM).

Cost of services and the uneven distribution of human resources are the biggest challenges faced by the government sector in delivery of health services, said Tamil Nadu health secretary Dr J Radhakrishnan on Friday.

Mental health is a huge contributor to economic burden of non-communicable diseases in India. Its prevalence is very high as 1 in every 5 Indians is suffering from some form of mental disorder.

Seventy per cent of India's population have no health insurance and the country is short by two million beds compared with the global benchmark.

The National Association of Software and Services (Nasscom) and Healthcare Federation of India (Nathealth) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Wednesday to introduce a new paradigm of health service.

As promised by chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the Kolkata International Film Festival, the preview theatre of Chalachchitra Shatabarsha Bhawan opened for public screening on Friday. All 152 tickets, priced at Rs 30 each, were sold for the first show of Dev-Rukmini’s ‘Kishmish’ at 1pm. Dev, who was present at the 1 pm screening, now intends to request the chief minister to implement this model in all the district towns of the state to encourage people to return to the theatres to watch Bengali cinema.

KOLKATA: IIT Kharagpur is all set to introduce six new academic programmes from this session. The institute would also focus on new areas of research like biomedical technology.

A Siliguri crime branch team arrested Union Bank of India branch manager Ashutosh Kumar from Pataliputra Colony police station area in Patna on Saturday for alleged involvement in fraudulent disbursal of Rs3.95 crore loan from Sevoke Road branch of the bank at Siliguri in Darjeeling district of West Bengal.

The films narrates the story of a madly-in-love inter-faith couple run away from the villagefearing persecution and finds shelter on the open pavements of the city streets. As they get accustomed to the harsh life on the streets their minds are enchanted by a throne like “Seat of Power” inside an exquisite furniture showroom which they want to gift to and and share with each other as a token of their love.

Keeping up with prime minister Narendra Modi’s endeavor to go digital, the Healthcare Federation of India (NATHEALTH) and NASSCOM have formed a Joint Council (NNJC) to use digital technology for innovative healthcare solutions.

ICCR’s Forum for Film Studies and Allied Arts along with Kalpanirjhar Foundation organised Memories Abound: Goutam Ghose on the Documentary Trail at the former’s address recently

The first ever standoff between the Haldia Petrochemicals management and the Citu-affiliated employees' union over the absorption of the 183 contract labourers showed signs of a solution.

KHARAGPUR: More than 350 well-placed IIT alumni in the US are ready to send aid to their institute and this could run into a few hundred million dollars. But there is a problem.

Seventy-five years ago, on this day, jubilation had filled the air, as people took to the streets to celebrate the newfound Independence, with some taking out rallies, some others exchanging greetings and then there were those who had queued up outside cinema halls. Movie theatres, which Indians had limited access to under British rule, showcased back-to-back patriotic films after Independence, amid cheers and applauses.

Tuesday’s announcement by the Film Federation of India (FFI) selecting Pan Nalin’s Gujarati film, ‘The Chhello Show’, as India’s Oscars entry for the Best International Feature Film has become a discussion point in the film corridors.

The 17th National Power Systems Conference organized at the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University concluded on Friday.