New Jalpaiguri Jan. 12: In a unique initiative to promote science among schoolchildren, a mobile exhibition on train is on for over two months and being taken to 57 cities across the country. Recently it reached the north Bengal.

The science exhibition uses video presentation and interactive sessions on train as the medium to generate curiosity and motivate individuals. It disseminates information about achievements in the ongoing science projects of India and Germany.

Science Express is a mobile exhibition on rails with German assistance and planned by Ahmedabad-based Vikram A Sarabhai Community Science Centre (VASCSC) in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Railways.

Kolkata, Jan11: The Kolkata High Court has asked the West Bengal Government to file an affidavit into the violence and death at Nandigram in November, within eight weeks.

Kolkata, Jan.

Purulia (WB), Jan 2: A CPI-M leader was gunned down by a gang of ten suspected Maoists at Besra village in West Bengal’s Purulia District late on Tuesday night.

Ballia (UP)/ Bikramganj (Bihar), Balagarh (W Bengal), Dec 29 : Counting of votes for the three Lok Sabha seats - Ballia in Uttar Pradesh, Bikramganj in Bihar and Balagarh in West Bengal have begun this morning, amidst tight security.

The poll that witnessed an 80 per cent turnout in Balagarh on December 29, are expected to decide the fate of candidates from the Trinamool Congress, the Congress and the BJP.

Kolkata, Dec 29: A Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI) militant was arrested by the Crimi