A UN wildlife conference on Thursday accepted India’s proposals to include the Asian elephant, the Great Indian bustard and the Bengal florican in a list of migratory species targeted for enhanced t...
President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday said research at National Institute of Technology (NIT)-Patna should aim at resolving people’s problems.Kovind, addressing students at NIT-Patna’s eighth conv...
As many as 50,000 participants from India and abroad came for the two-day tribal International Sarna Mahadharam Convention, which started on Thursday at Lugu hills in rebel-hit Gomia of Bokaro, 70km f...
Thai authorities had registered a case in April against an attempt by private individuals to set up a floating house within the Andaman Sea. The Thai press reported officials saying that the activity ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced that India would raise its target for restoring degraded land from 21 million hectares to 26 million hectares by 2030.Speaking at the 14th session of t...
The Assam BJP has convened an important meeting of its office-bearers here on Friday to finalise the party’s strategy for the two-phase panchayat elections in December.The secretary of the state BJP...
The Koch Rajbongshi National Convention (KRNC) on Sunday questioned the government and the Bodoland Territorial Areas District administration on the fate of the Koch Rajbongshis who were excluded from...
Aung San Suu Kyi will appear before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to contest a case filed by Gambia accusing Myanmar of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority, her government said on...
Physical punishment in schools, unclean toilets, inappropriate touch and not getting three meals at home every day — these are some of the truths that a survey across eight districts of Bengal has r...
A dispute between Ukraine and Russia in which each accuses the other of violating laws of the sea escalated sharply on Sunday when the Ukrainian navy said the Russian military opened fire on several o...
By Andrew E. Kramer/ New York Times News Service
in Moscow