The Kali Puja in Kaliganj, adjacent to Murshidabad district, was established as a fair and festival during the reign of Nawab Alivardi Khan of Bengal, Bihar, and Odisha.
Indian tourists are rapidly emerging as a significant growth engine for global tourism, with a 12 per cent growth in the first half of this year, compared with the same period in 2019 before the pandemic, according to a report on Wednesday.
The pandemic claimed countless victims across India for several months now. It was expected, once the lethal effects of the Wuhan virus were known. Till such a time as a vaccine was discovered, all were helpless.
NITI Aayog on Wednesday released a new report that provides a blueprint of a rapid response system in the event of a public health emergency or pandemic.
As India aims to achieve $2 trillion exports by 2030, the country's trade with regions and regional groupings improved significantly in the post-pandemic times amid robust measures and policy reforms towards ease of doing business, a new report said on Wednesday.
At the global level, fintech investment reached $98 billion across 2,456 deals in H1'21 - far outpacing last year's annual total of $121.5 billion across 3,520 deals.
Initially, WHO was backing the Chinese and concluded that it was highly unlikely that covid-19 came from a laboratory in Wuhan, and it may have originated in bats and was subjected to severe criticism.
In short, it is a whole host of factors from which there is no turning back. India has stepped on the modernisation/westernisation escalator and going back is not an option.
Curiosity is the only thing that will drive you away from the hustle of the cities to broaden the horizon of inquisitiveness.
During early 2020, sometime around February, I distinctly remember sitting at a cafe enjoying my coffee while reading a lot of incoming news from the international borders regarding Covid-19.
