A Study in Scarlet, the first adventure of Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world’s most famous fictional detective, appeared in 1887. The same year, R. Reid, a sleuth in real life, wrote Every Man His...

Gale winds at 60kmph and pounding hailstones flattened more than a dozen illumination models at the landmark Jubilee Park that was getting ready for the March 3 Founder’s Day celebrations.The damage...

The public swimming pools in Salt Lake have closed down. So has the pool in New Town Business Club. In Salt Lake, the two swimming pools run by the civic body, in Central Park and in CJ Block, are clo...

Union minister of state for food processing Rameswar Teli said at Margherita in Tinsukia district of Upper Assam on Friday that he would explore avenues to generate jobs in the Northeast.The Dibrugarh...

For most tourists, Baripada is nothing more than a gateway to the Simlipal National Park, famous for its tigers and elephants, in Odisha. That there could be tucked deep within the small town an iride...

India’s lone orangutan, 41-year-old Binny, died at Nandankanan Zoo on Wednesday night. She was suffering from old-age complications, respiratory infection and a wound in her throat.Orangutans are th...

An eight-year-old girl living in a border village thinks she has found a solution to the continuous crossfire by staying awake all night. The girl’s story was narrated in Nooreh, a 22-minute film on...

Namdapha National Park in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh is facing a massive deforestation threat because of felling of trees by the timber smugglers. Namdapha National Park is 1,985km (766 s...

Park Circus Maidan, where a women-led protest against the new citizenship regime has been on since January 7, witnessed scenes of camaraderie with people celebrating Holi.On Tuesday, the women on vigi...

It takes a brave man to want to venture towards Simlipal in April. We took a 320-km drive — a torturous one — to the national park in the Mayurbhanj district in Odisha. Patches of bad road, red du...