Strange as it may seem, Don Quixote was an environmentalist at heart. Why else would he declare war on the “thirty or forty hulking giants” with the aim of removing the “foul... brood from off t...

The eco-friendly initiative to dispose of bottles has gone for a toss at Tatanagar railway station.Two plastic bottle shredders — one near the entrance of the A-1 category station and the other on p...

Badulir kothupokothon (Rendezvous of bats), a short play by Assamese nature writer Girimallika Saikia and enacted by school students, is helping spread awareness about the environment and the novel co...

The National Democratic Alliance has formed the government for the second consecutive term. A large number of people in the northern mountains of India are thus remembering the promises that the Bhara...

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World Environment Day was first celebrated in 1973. Every year, the significance of such a day becomes more and more important. Why? Because we, as a community are in denial of the serious repercussio...

Sir — In our family, we have a custom of planting new seeds on important occasions such as birthdays or wedding anniversaries. It was, therefore, all the more heartening to learn that a civic body i...

Sir — It is unfortunate that the actors-turned-members of parliament, Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan, were trolled for their choice of attire after they posted pictures of their first day in Parl...

Assembly walkoutThe DMK and its allies on Tuesday staged a walkout from the Tamil Nadu Assembly over the Sterlite issue with chief minister K. Palaniswami blaming the Opposition for trooping out by co...

Greeted by a group of singing young activists and the massed ranks of the world's media, Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg arrived at the UN climate summit in Madrid on Friday, having taken a catamaran,...