Prankrishna Maity and his wife from Ramnagarabadh village in Patharpratima in the Sunderbans, South 24-Parganas, have raised a brick and mortar two-storey house. In the surrounding space, they grow bo...
Sunday lessons for a group of school students in Cooch Behar, some 700km away from Calcutta, were all about dragging their feet along the soggy fields, getting their hands muddy to sow paddy and learn...
A group of farmers in a pocket of Nadia, who went to a lake for retting jute, stumbled upon a crocodile a few days ago.
The crocodile, suspected to have come from the Hooghly which is less than 200m ...
A wild adult leopard cat, an endangered species, was mowed down by a mini truck in Hasimara of Alipurduar district on Tuesday morning.
Sources said that the mini truck was headed towards Assam along ...
The Blue Planet (2001)
Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, this BBC mini-series delves deep into the Earth’s marine ecology. Despite the fact that water covers two-third of the Earth&rs...
The monkeypox virus responsible for outbreaks in multiple countries over the past two months shows an excessive number of genetic mutations, indicating “accelerated evolution” and possible...
A 10-member team of the Nature and Trekkers’ Club of Jalpaiguri (NTCJ) will head for a mountain expedition in the Himalayas on next month to scale a peak that is at a height of 20,050 feet and i...
Arun Ganguly has been photographing his garden for some time. These are lush images of plants and flowers, captioned meticulously, sent to his friends and acquantances.
Ganguly, 83, has been well-kno...
Four fishermen spotted a Peacock Softshell Turtle, an endangered and protected species, in a water body near Sector V and saved it from being killed by villagers, resulting in its rescue by the forest...