B.N.Bose এর পুরো নাম ভোলানাথ বসু। ১৮২৪ সালে (মতান্তরে ১৮২৫ সালে) ভোলানাথ বসু চানক মৌজার তালপুকুর গ্রামে জন্মেছিলেন। এই চাণক-ই পরবর্তী সময়ে ব্যারাকপুর নামে পরিচিত হয়ে ওঠে। তাঁর বাবার নাম ছিল রামজয় বসু। তাঁদের বাগানবাড়ির বিস্তীর্ণ জমি ৫০ বছর আগেও বোসবাগান নামে পরিচিত ছিল। পরে কৃষ্ণনাথ মুখোপাধ্যায় তা কিনে নিয়েছিলেন। এই জমিতেই আজ জিমন্যাশিয়ামের বিশাল মাঠ।
প্রথমে তিনি গ্রামের পাঠশালায় পড়াশুনা করলেও পরে তিনি লর্ড অকল্যাণ্ড প্রতিষ্ঠিত ব্যারাকপুর বিদ্যালয়ে (আজকের ব্যারাকপুর গর্ভমেণ্ট স্কুল) ভর্তি হয়েছিলেন। লর্ড অকল্যাণ্ড এবং তাঁর বোন এমিলি ইডেন মূলত চারপাশের লোকালয়ের বাঙ্গালী ছেলেদের জন্যই এই স্কুলটি স্থাপন করেন। তারা মাঝে মাঝে সেই বিদ্যালয়টি পরিদর্শন করতেন এবং পড়াশুনার ব্যাপারে ছাত্রদের উৎসাহ দিতেন। ১৮৪০ সালে লর্ড অকল্যাণ্ডই ভোলানাথকে কলকাতা মেডিক্যাল কলেজে ভর্তি করিয়ে দিয়েছিলেন। শুধু তাই নয়, তিনি ভোলানাথ বসুর জন্য মাসিক দশ টাকা বৃত্তির ব্যবস্থাও করে দিয়েছিলেন।
It can be assumed that the immigrant Chinese had no exact word for their place of worship and community meeting place - they started calling them as church as the British called their own place of worship. Though these Taoist temples have no link of Christianity.
Just like Kolkata's old China Town is more than the Chinese Breakfast, these Taoist temples are more than religious centers.
Toong On Church is the first Chinese temple you will find if you are coming from the Central Metro station.
Though I have written about Old China Town previously on my blog, this one is distinct cover up on the Old China Town of Kolkata.
Introduction: Old Chinatown of Kolkata - Teriti Bazar
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| Lion Dance in Territi Bazar - Celebration of Chinese New Year 2023 |
Private 5G networks are the latest excitement to the industry, as it would support Indian enterprises preparing for the Industry 4.0 revolution.
Home grown smaller IT infrastructure and digital solutions providers are working to bring their own private 5G solutions. In October 2022, Chennai based Netcon Technologies (https://netcontechnologies.com) has launched Private 5G solutions in collaboration with Italy based Athonet (https://athonet.com). The solutions were unveiled at the recently concluded India Mobile Congress 2022 in New Delhi.
As NavIC is available for civilian use over L5 band (and S band for military use), it is now offering regional coverage covering India and a region extending 1,500km around it. While American GPS, Russian GLONASS, European Union's Galileo, China's BeiDou have global coverage, i.e. all these 4 satnav services are Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). NavIC presently using only 7 satellites to cover a region centering India. As 4 out of 7 satellites are geosynchronous and remaining 3 are geostationary - as a result the satellites are always in line with Indian territories - that makes geolocation highly precise.
History of NavIC began in 1999, when US denied specific GPS data to India during Kargil war. The project of Indian GPS or IRNSS was approved in 2006, and planned to go operational by 2011. But it got delayed, eventually NavIC was launched in 2018.
ব্যারাকপুরে বেশ কিছু ঐতিহাসিক 'Hidden Gem' আছে। তার মধ্যে বেশিরভাগই আর্মি বা পুলিশের জায়গাতে অবস্থিত বলে সাধারণের নাগালের বাইরে। আজকে যেটা নিয়ে কথা বলব সেটা কিন্তু সবার নাগালের মধ্যেই - কিন্তু Cantonment এরিয়ার ঠিক বাইরে আর রাস্তা থেকে একটু ভিতরে থেকে বলে বেশিরভাগ মানুষই এর ব্যাপারে জানেন না। ছোটবেলায় এই সব এরিয়াতে সাইকেল চালিয়ে অনেক ঘুরেছি, আমিও জানতাম না এর ব্যাপারে। এটি হল ব্যারাকপুরের খ্রিস্টান কবরস্থান বা Commonwealth War Graves। ২০১৯ সালে West Bengal Heritage Commission এই জায়গাটিকে 'হেরিটেজ সাইট' হিসেবে নথিভুক্ত করেন - গেটে লাগানো হয় ব্লু প্লেক (Blue Plaque)।
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| ব্যারাকপুরের খ্রীষ্টান কবরস্থান - Commonwealth War Graves |
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George Orwell said, “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
Biriyani came from the Persian word, 'Beryan' which means 'fried before cooking'.
For the uninitiated, Alliance Broadband has became the top broadband player in West Bengal for last 7-10 years, beating the state-owned BSNL. Technically Alliance was offering cable broadband while BSNL relied on ADSL technology initially, but both now have moved to Fiber in most of the areas. Fiber offers faster data than cable or ADSL, and maintenance charge is also low. For last some years the cost of rolling out fiber has been declining due to huge deployment across the globe.
At present I have both Jio Fiber and Alliance Fiber connection at my home. Downtime is rare with Jio, while Alliance has some 30hr+ downtime in my area, thanks to local operator. Also during thunderstorm Jio never goes off - making it seamless internet experience.
Jio owns 51% of the JV, while SES holds the remaining 49%. SES is already an established player in satcom business and newly formed entity will use multi-orbit space networks that is a combination of geostationary (GEO) and medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite constellations capable of delivering multi-gigabit links (upto 100Gbps) and capacity to enterprises, mobile backhaul and retail customers across the length and breadth of India and neighbouring regions.
Tata Motors
has launched their upgraded Nexon EV as Nexon EV Max, and will roll out Tiago
EV soon. They already have another EV - Tigor EV. That would make Tata Motors
with maximum EV offerings in India - 4 EV cars. At a point Tata Motors can be India's answer to Tesla.
Other EV
cars in India are - MG ZS EV (from Rs 20.88 L), Hyundai Kona Electric (from Rs.23.71
lakh), Mahindra e-Verito, Mahindra e2oPlus.
And those
are already in the list to be launched are, Mahindra e-KUV100, Nissan Leaf,
Mahindra XUV300 EV, and Tata Tiago EV.
Interestingly top automaker in India, Maruti Suzuki is yet to be join the EV race. As per reports, Maruti Suzuki is working with Toyota for a mid-sized EV SUV, codenamed YY8.
Back in December 2019, Jio announced Canada-based Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP and its institutional partners (including Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC) would bought Jio's telecom assets through some complex deal. The valuation was Rs 25,215 cr. In September 2020 DoT cleared the transaction.
Summit Digitel Infrastructure, which is the new name of the tower arm of Jio Infratel under new ownership, currently has 1,51,000+ operational telecom sites.
Website of Summit Digitel: https://www.summitdigitel.com/
Facebook page of Summit Digitel: https://www.facebook.com/SummitDigitel/
In March 2022, BSNL has inked a pact to use Summit's passive infrastructure assests, while in April Airtel did similar agreement with it.
In December 2020, Summit Digitel joins Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA).
TAIPA has members like: Indus Towers Limited, ATC Group Companies, Tower Vision, Ascend Telecom Infrastructure, Sterlite Technologies, Space World, Coslight, Suyog Telematics, Applied Solar Technologies, iBus Networks and Summit Digitel Infrastructure.
The article is a part of tracking Reliance Jio.
This article is made to list the issues faced with Windows 11. Back in 2005, I was on Windows XP on my first desktop, when many computer users were still stuck to Windows 98. Windows got smarter but I skipped next generations of Windows, and again back to Windows with Win 7 with new laptop in 2008. Win7 is stable experience on the oldie. But had to move on to a new laptop, as I have transition to Windows 11 in 2022.
Noting down my experiences on Win11, as follows.
America's drug controller FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has approved these two anti-COVID oral antivirals as Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) - Molnupiravir and Paxlovid.
