It has taken a pandemic-induced global lockdown to make visible to us the millions of invisible, desperate migrant labourers whose toil sustains us and the nation. In this context, appreciation is due...

Luck finally ran out on Roorh Ram, who was leading a comfortable life in Canada after migrating there in 1998 allegedly using fake documents to get a visa, as the CBI arrested him recently on his arri...

The critically endangered Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis), the last stronghold of which in the country is Manas National Park in Assam, is likely to be included in the global list for intern...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday went for the jugular on the National Population Register and dismissed the contentious additional questions as an ordinary administrative process.Replying to t...

Kashmiri political activists have moved court demanding a stay on the release of Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s film on the migration of Kashmiri Pandits, claiming that it would incite violence against Kashmi...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has termed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) as 'internal matters' of India but at the same time said the act was ...

Women’s migration is now increasingly perceived as a signal of development and women’s empowerment, as large numbers of single women move to work or study in other states. Internal migration of wo...

Mainul Haque, 40, was on the minds of many in Bahalnagar, a Murshidabad village of 3,000 people 230km from Calcutta, which was mourning five of its men on Wednesday. As a 20-year-old, Mainul had storm...

The prehistoric Homo sapiens spread out from their source to all continents, braving unimaginable odds, and created the possibility of humans becoming avant-garde in the process of the evolution of Li...

Elephants have started bidding adieu, albeit temporarily, to Dalma wildlife sanctuary as a part of their annual migration to neighbouring Bengal.A herd of over a dozen jumbos left for the jungles of W...