Ideology and friendship

When I had completed a year in government I got somewhat restless. Reaching the conclusion that official bondage was not my cup of tea, I left the ministry of finance and went out of the country on a United Nations assignment. Returning in January ...

Alipurduar, May 16: A leopard kept a small town in the Dooars on tenterhooks for over eight hours, attacking nine persons and playing a hide-and-seek chase with its captors. The animal died after capture in the afternoon. Three schools in Looksan ...

Students are cheating brazenly in college examinations and teachers say they are scared to act against them, the revelation coming amid a season of discontent on campuses over union elections being barred to restore discipline. Both Calcutta ...

Please Sign In or Register to like this blog. What is that "peculiar genetics of mathematics"? It's remarked upon twice, so I knew it: mathematical ability goes down from father-in-law to son-in-law Why? Males students of mathematics professors ...

A group of young hooligans vandalises the great Presidency College (university), sending shockwaves all around. The dastardly act deeply hurt every concerned citizen in India and outside. While the perpetrators may attempt to rationalise it as a ...

The culture of political violence in Bengal is not even sparing holy grounds such as Presidency College (now University) which were till now protected from acts of violence and hooliganism. Trinamool workers vandalised the Baker Laboratory which has seen ...

Vandals flaunting Trinamul flags raided Presidency University on Wednesday afternoon, roughing up students in front of police and ransacking the physics laboratory of the College Street landmark that Mamata Banerjee wants to turn into a world-class ...

In statistics, distances between observations are used to form clusters, to identify outliers, and to estimate distributions. Distances are used in spatial statistics and in other application areas. There are many ways to define the distance ...

KOLKATA: He is no filmstar, but every time he's in the city, he receives nothing less than a 'hero's welcome'. Indeed, former President and nuclear scientist APJ Abdul Kalam is no less than a hero for the youth. On Monday, as he walked to the centre ...