A new aquatic plant section has been opened at Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden (AJCIBG), Shibpur, for housing rare plant species. Union environment and forest minister Bhupen...

Antra Bhargava is the former CEO of SuVitas, India's first Transition Care Hospital Chain, which recently merged with HCAH (HealthCare atHOME, India), where she is head of Expansion. She founded t...

The project to restore the 230-year-old Roxburgh House at the Indian Botanic Garden has been revived. Roxburgh International Trust (RIT), a charitable organisation, is driving the new initiative to r...

Flower lovers, cultivators and green enthusiasts will miss the popular flower shows organised by the Agri-Horticultural Society of India (AHSI) and the Indian Botanic Garden in Shibpur for the second ...

The carcasses of three fishing cats, allegedly poisoned to death, were found at a village in Bagnan, Howrah district, on Thursday afternoon. The carcasses were found dumped in an open area off a road...

Risky climb Sir — The pandemic led to an increase in the time we spent online and caused a spurt in young people following social media ‘trends’. While many of these trends are harm...

Two micro biodiversity hotspots have been identified at the Indian Botanic Garden in Shibpur by a community participation project for the regeneration of the garden. The project, undertaken by the Bo...

A team of professionals from fields like biodiversity specialists, botanists, landscape artists and urban developers is putting together a rejuvenation programme for the Indian Botanic Garden in Shibp...

The Indian Botanic Garden in Shibpur is bracing for Yaas. No sooner had it recovered from the body blow of Amphan exactly a year ago than the garden, crippled by inadequate staff and funds, was hurle...

Bengal on Friday recorded 19,216 new infections, 112 deaths and 17,780 recoveries. The number of active cases has risen to over 1.24 lakh. Of the 112 deaths, 28 were reported from Calcutta and 33 fro...