Shila, a Royal Bengal Tigress of the Bengal Safari Park on the outskirts of Siliguri, will deliver cubs in another fortnight’s time. Dharamdeo Rai, the park’s director, said Shila was aro...

Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton expressed concern and distress over the devastation caused in Assam's Kaziranga National Park by flood which has killed many animals and affected livelih...

Two slums adjacent to Lake Gardens and Jodhpur Park in south Calcutta have been completely sealed after more than 20 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the past few days. The slums, Gobindapur an...

The Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) in Katras converted a mountain of rock, earth, soil and sand, into a park studded with a wide variety of flowering, fruit, and ornamental plants, which was inaugu...

An adult makna (male without tusks) elephant that entered the Bamandanga-Tondu tea estate in Jalpaiguri was fatally electrocuted before daybreak on Wednesday. Foresters said it came in touch with a p...

Tierpark Berlin, a zoo in the German capital, has much to thank the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) of Darjeeling for. The hill zoo had gifted Berlin a pair of red pandas, Joel and Sh...

An 18-year-old scored 94.5 per cent in the ISC exams and is preparing for IIT and other engineering entrance tests. Nothing unusual for a boy of his age, except that he lives in a one-room house and h...

At a time when India and the world are battling both a pandemic and an economic slowdown, there is a thirst for news that uplifts the spirit. What could be better timed than the results of the latest ...

The mayor of Seoul, South Korea, the country’s most powerful official after the President, was found dead by the police, hours after his daughter reported him missing, the authorities said on Fr...

Two of the city’s happening places have started operating drive-in restaurants at a time when the Covid pandemic has reshaped the world. The 480-acre Eco Park in New Town and the 40-acre Nicco ...