However, the tank balcony poses a challenge that the leafy trees don’t: the scorching sun in Sambalpur where, with the monsoon playing hide and seek, temperatures are nudging 40 degrees. &ldquo...

Teachers of Jadavpur University’s science faculty have suggested separate criteria for admission to undergraduate courses for students from the Bengal board and those from the CBSE board and the...

Infections and deaths from the new coronavirus continue to spread worldwide, and the World Health Organization has officially declared the outbreak a pandemic. Many people are starting to talk about s...

There is a misconception that it was the Muslims who dominated the tanning industry, he says. It is difficult to tell his age from either appearance or agility, but from time to time Tapan Nandi scrat...

John West, 80, who showed that academics of small towns could leave a mark in the country’s education system, breathed his last at his home in Darjeeling early on Wednesday morning.“John suffered ...

The Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, has featured in the “Top 50 young universities in chemistry” in 2019, according to Nature Index, a science journal. IIT Guwahati is ranked 20th in the...

I have chosen to study biology and chemistry in Class XII. I am thinking about taking up pharmacy after the Class XII board examinations. What are the career prospects for a graduate in pharmacy (BPh...

A 77-year-old Scottish Nobel laureate flew down from Chicago to Calcutta to play the role of the groom’s father for one of his students from Northwestern University on Wednesday.Sir James Fraser Sto...

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries.The Nobel Committee said: “Lithium-ion...

Look at the picture of this man, look at it carefully and imagine what or who he could be. Doesn’t strain the imagination, or does it? A farmer. Right, but there might be more. A horticulturist. Rig...