Two men were assaulted and their vehicle torched over a suspicion of being cattle lifters by a group of villagers in the Maynaguri block of Jalpaiguri on Friday. According to sources, some local resi...

A 50-year-old primary schoolteacher who lost her job in September last year because children had stopped going to school, started taking embroidery training in January. With around 15 days left to co...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may be pooh-poohing the farmers’ movement but one fallout is apparent: it’s open season on anything to do with privatisation and Reliance. The purported &ldqu...

A shadow crossed the labourer’s face as he turned to look at his nine-year-old daughter, standing near him as he worked at the construction site. “She is too scared to sit at home. She st...

The Jharkhand government has decided to send teams of officials to flood-ravaged Chamoli district of Uttarakhand to facilitate the safe return of all those who are stranded there, officials said on Fr...

The theory that the flash flood was caused by a “glacial outburst” — offered on Sunday and dismissed on Monday in favour of an avalanche theory — received a shot in the arm on ...

Two people caught in an avalanche in Switzerland were rescued after their dogs barked for help, attracting the attention of nearby snow-shoers who were able to dig them out, air ambulance service Rega...

Three helmeted currasows, an endangered species of birds found in Columbia and Venezuela, and over a dozen pigeons of various varieties were rescued by a BSF team while they were being allegedly smugg...

More than 600 Indian softshell turtles, some of them dead, were seized from the courtyard of a fish trader’s house in Naihati, North 24-Parganas, on Tuesday morning. The trader’s son...

Nylon nets spread over ponds in the city and on the fringes to keep birds away are maiming and killing them, foresters, NGOs and residents who rescue them said. Metro had reported in November how a w...