Romano Prodi, the Prime Minister of Italy, is coming today to the city. His city trip being a business visit, he will be accompanied by a 200-member strong Italian business delegation that also includes Italian Minister of International Trade Emma Bonino. Both Prime Minister Prodi and International Trade Minister Bonino will address an economic forum […]
Branding of TV channels
‘Slugging’ for eyeballs! [Picture source: left; right]CAS (conditional access system) has brought smiles on the faces of TV viewers in metro cities. They pay only the minimum fee for cable connection, and they don’t pay for channels they don’t want to see. No prize for guessing which channels get maximum viewers. The TV channels are […]
Kolkata no longer a blip
Nandigram and Singur notwithstanding, there is no denying Kolkata’s rising graph on the radar screen of IT multinationals. Reports like city MBAs ranking way above their southern clan, and more than those originating from Delhi (or is it the now-fashionable NCR), with regard to employability (see TT news) add muscle to the belief that Kolkata […]
CAB flounders
Not long back there was an acrimonious change of guard at the helm of CAB (Cricket Association of Bengal). Incumbent Jagmohan Dalmiya was elbowed out of office by Prasun Mukherjee, backed by solid political patronage. Mukherjee happens to be the city police chief. One therefore thought India-Sri Lanka one-dayer yesterday would be a cracking of […]
All metal Chowringhee
JL Nehru Road, better known as Chowringhee Road, is fast emerging as the ‘metal’ address of Kolkata. Starting from Birla Planetarium up to the point where Park Street flyover begins, regional offices of at least 4 major steel manufacturers were hitherto located. To the august list now adds that of Nalco. First off, just opposite […]
Double-deck Dum Dum
So what if there’s no horizontal space to maneuver? What about going vertical! Yet this simple solution took a long time to appear in the collective wisdom of Eastern Railway’s engineers. But at last it has. The place in question is Dum Dum Junction, and the plan in pipeline is to construct an elevated pair […]
A visitor’s account of Kolkata
Calcutta? No thanks. This is the title of yesterday’s post in his blog, BigTripBlog (see the post), by globetrotter Kevin Allgood. He and his companion, Valerie Marshall from US evidently had a different image in mind about Kolkata, but on setting feet here, they did not like the city at all. In ‘our’ humble opinion, […]
TT changes…for better
When you regularly read a newspaper, you do not necessarily start from page one and proceed in page-wise sequence. I happen to do the same with my favorite paper, The Telegraph. Barely giving a glance to the main page (keeping it for later probing), I rather begin from last page (the BACKPAGE) and then flip […]
Branded PCs lead the charge
When my friend who supplied my desktops all these years put his gloves down 6 months back for want of order, I could see the writing on the wall. He is among the lucky few to have switched over in time to ‘servicing’ PCs instead of pure hawking. This development of branded PCs gradually eating […]
Facelifting Rabindra Sarobar
Kolkata’s powers-that-be are an ignorant lot when it comes to matters like environment and preservation of heritage. It is not a crime not to know everything. But it certainly is if you pretend you know everything, and worse still if you prevent others to do anything meaningful as if nobody knows better than you. This […]
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