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In a historic electoral upset, the BJP has secured its first-ever assembly election victory in West Bengal, unseating Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after 15 years. The results, reflecting a record 92.47% voter turnout, saw the BJP's "Bhoy out, Bharosa in" slogan resonate strongly, surpassing the TMC's "Maa maati manush" narrative.

Kolkata-based scientists are glad that Bengal remembered physicist satyendra nath bose when the world celebrated confirmation of Higgs boson particle.

Addressing the curtain-raiser ceremony of the commemoration of professor satyendra nath bose's 125th birth anniversary in Kolkata via video-conference, he said Bose was a "crusader" for teaching of science in vernacular languages and had started a Bengali science magazine.

Bose's rise to fame began in academia. Bose's enthusiasm in mathematics was stifled by his father, an accountant, who would create an arithmetic homework for him to answer each day before going for work. Bose began studying for a Bachelor of Science degree at Presidency College in Calcutta at the age of 15, and later received a Master's in Applied Mathematics at the University of Calcutta.

Though several Nobel Prizes have been awarded for research related to the concepts of the boson, Bose-Einstein statistics and Bose-Einstein condensate, Bose never got the award in his lifetime.

Everyone knows Higgs Bosons- thanks to the Large Hadron Collider experiment. Unfortunately, no one seems to care about, at least conveniently forgets, satyendra nath bose, the late Indian physicist whose last name bears the mark of a set of particles including the elusive Higgs Boson.

Indian scientist satyendra nath bose after whom the God particle is named remains in virtual oblivion. What is 'God particle' & what it does?

The police museum, which has shifted to Alipore Jail Museum from its previous Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Road address, was inaugurated by state urban development department minister Firhad Hakim on Saturday in presence of police commissioner Vineet Goyal and Hidco managing director Debashis Sen.

There is an intrinsic Indian connection to what is happening at CERN - satyendra nath bose. It is Bose after whom the sub-atomic particle 'boson' is named.

The first time Jamini Roy met Rabindranath Tagore, on a "magical evening in Allahabad", the young artist was left speechless - it seemed like 'Jesus standing outside the closed door'. This is one of the many anecdotes of the legendary painter revealed in a one-of-its-kind book that will be launched in August.

Kolkata has topped India's science and research landscape according to the Nature Index 2024, ranking 84th globally, followed by other Indian cities such as Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi. The city's strong performance reflects its historical legacy and the contributions of institutions like IACS and ISI. Meanwhile, China continues to dominate global research, with Beijing and Shanghai leading the way.

A major fire broke out at the chemistry department in the Baker building of Presidency University at 4:30 am on Friday morning, fire brigade sources said.

Mani Bhaumik, an India-born American physicist-philanthropist, donates one million US dollars to establish the prestigious IEEE Jagadish Chandra Bose Medal in Wireless Communications. The medal and honorarium will be awarded to promising young scientists starting from 2025. The medal aims to recognize the work of Jagadish Chandra Bose, the Indian scientist whose invention of the detector for wireless telegraphy was overlooked for years. Benghal-born Mani Bhaumik, who lives in Los Angeles, holds numerous patents and is considerably wealthy.

KOLKATA: Catapulted into news recently for its breakthrough research on cancer and home to legends like C.V. Raman, K.S. Krishnan and M.N. Saha, the oldest scientific body of the country, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), turned 125 on Sunday.

India is the intellectual capital of the world, and the people have intellectual talent, former Kuvempu University vice-chancellor Chidananda Gowda said here on Saturday.

January 1st marks significant historical moments, including the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912 and the World Trade Organization in 1995. The day also commemorates the birth anniversaries of influential figures like Mahatma Gandhi, satyendra nath bose, and Rahat Indori, alongside the death anniversaries of scientists Hemchand Dasgupta and Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, highlighting diverse contributions to global history.

A team of scientists is using artificial intelligence (AI) to run a complex experiment to create an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, replicating the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize. This technology can be used in areas like minerals extraction.

The University of Calcutta's PG admissions for various disciplines at the University College of Science and Technology (UCST) will close today. The provisional merit list will be published on October 1, and the first selection list will be announced on October 3. Interested candidates can apply on the official website by filling out the online application form and submitting the required documents. UCST is known for its programs in Science, Engineering and Technology, Agriculture, Fine Arts, Music, and Home Science. It has three main campuses and a student population of over 10,000.

It was a black day for Bengal and the country — Baker Lab whose fame extends beyond the country’s shores was vandalized by a bunch of Trinamool hooligans.

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, a 1953-batch alumnus of Presidency University, on Thursday set the ball rolling on the institutes’s bicentenary celebrations with an address that harped on the university’s secular credentials, a day before the ceremonial inauguration by chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

The education system in the country was a British legacy aimed at "subjugating Indian minds" and had led to "cultural pollution", BJP President Rajnath Singh said on Monday.

As part of today’s app quiz, participants will stand a chance to win a free OnePlus TV for free.

After months of renovation, the auditorium at Rammohun Library and Free Reading Room, a 119-year-old heritage building in the city, was inaugurated on Friday.