West Bengal

Jharkhand’s Gaurav Anand left his 16-year-long corporate career to make unique handloom sarees by extracting fibre from water hyacinths, a type of freshwater weed, while helping 450 women earn a livelihood.

The advisory body to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre has made a recommendation to include Santiniketan, the West Bengal university town established by the Tagore family, on its list of World Heritage Sites.

An Irish teacher, after a meeting with Swami Vivekananda, donned the title of Sister Nivedita and spent her life caring for Calcutta’s poor during the plague and famine, and joined India in its freedom struggle.

Mamoon Akhtar set up Samaritan Mission School in West Bengal. Today, they provide affordable education to over 6,500 students regardless of religion or creed.

Cheap knock-offs are available all year round. But to get the authentic taste of Joynagar Moa - you have to visit this town in West Bengal.

Tuktuki Das, a 26-year-old MA English graduate, opened a tea shop in Habra railway station with the hope of turning it into a brand someday.

Soumitra Mandal from West Bengal has been termed the ‘Oxygen Man of Sundarbans’ for his contribution in making healthcare and oxygen available across nine islands amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lilabati Mahata, hailing from a drought-prone West Bengal's Jhargram, mobilised hundreds of village women to erect and lay water conservation structures.

Anshul Gupta was fated to become a chartered account when he gave it up to revive the art of Petit point and Gara embroidery in West Bengal. He speaks of the journey of the over 30-year-old Prastuti Designs.

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) recruitment 2021 is underway for 527 technical and non-technical apprenticeships from the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand and Assam.