Talents born and nurtured in Bengal have been flocking to Mumbai and Bangalore to advance their careers. It's time to end this long history, Bikash Sinha, Homi Bhabha Professor at the department o...

Scientists have provided the strongest evidence yet for what American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had declared 184 years ago — that “music is the universal language of mankind”. ...

A power cut in laboratories has led to loss of research material accumulated over at least 10 years, scientists of Calcutta University have said.Some of the materials that need to be refrigerated at l...

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The lockdown has tested life, thrown up challenges and some enduring takeaways like the group of Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology students who have been feeding stray dogs on the...

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh is stable and his condition has improved, even as he tested negative for Covid-19, hospital sources said on Monday.Singh (87) was admitted to the AIIMS on Sunday e...

The Covid-19 pandemic is a test for everything and everyone — healthcare infrastructure, disaster management ability, response and responsibility of governments as well as of citizens as individuals...

The state government has requested at least three state-aided universities and a central research institute in Bengal to lend Covid-19 test equipment for setting up more testing laboratories.The vice...

A month after the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) shut down its OPD services and curtailed all elective surgeries in its effort to redirect its resources to control the Covid-19 outbre...

Covid is an orphan virus and is using one strategy till such time comes when human beings, its only target so far, acquire an immune response strong enough to repel or keep it at bay.It has united a d...