The Santoor Ashram, Kolkata, carried the fragrance of India’s rich cultural heritage to the United States with a spellbinding evening of Indian classical music at the Mandir, Arvine.

Kolkata: The curtain raiser of the upcoming London thought leadership summit IndiaSetu, hosted under the Global Collaboration Forum (GCF), brought together leaders from healthcare, technology, academia, and conservation on a Saturday evening to discuss India’s growth and the power of collaboration in shaping the future.

Author Saptarshi Mallick, an Assistant Professor at the Department of American Studies (Research Area for American Literary and Cultural History with a Focus on (Trans-) Nationality and Space), University of Graz, Austria, was the guest at An Author's Afternoon hosted by Prabha Khaitan Foundation at Taj Bengal, Kolkata on August 22. The author of Connecting Spaces - The Travelogues and Letters of Lady Abala Bose, Prof. Mallick spoke on the pioneering social reformer, educationist, and philanthropist in colonial Bengal in conversation with Kaberi Chatterjee. IBNS correspondent Souvik Ghosh brings excerpts of the conversation... 

The Rotary Club of Belur on Monday inaugurated advanced State-of-the-Art Endoscopic Surgical Equipment (Laparoscopy & Colposcopy) at the Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan (RKM-SP), Kolkata.

India Humanity Foundation (IHF) has officially launched its flagship literacy campaign, Padho Bharat 2025, with an ambitious and heart-warming goal: to inspire every Indian to donate books, building thousands of libraries across underserved communities by the end of 2025.

Kolkata:  A large-scale mega health check-up camp was successfully organized in the heart of Basanti Colony, Ultadanga — one of the most densely populated urban slums in Kolkata — delivering free medical services to over 230 underprivileged individuals.

On the occasion of the Commencement Day of Matagiri, the Sri Aurobindo Centre in the USA, the iconic collaborative production 'Music Meets Bells' will return to the stage after seven years, featuring two of India’s foremost classical artists — Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya, internationally acclaimed Santoor maestro, and Guru Sanchita Bhattacharya, renowned Odissi danseuse.

Bengaluru/Salem: When the GSLV-F16 lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on the evening of July 30, scores of researchers at the SonaSPEED laboratories in Salem and Bengaluru rejoiced, as the Simplex Permanent Magnet Stepper Motors developed and built by them had successfully powered the first ISRO–NASA Earth Observation Mission.