Several doctors and health workers, at the forefront of the battle against the coronavirus, are reporting an alarming trend: a large number of them are being abused and assaulted by mobs. Ironically t...

An apocryphal tale dating back to the Soviet era suggests that the dreary speeches of members of the Politburo were usually greeted with thunderous applause. The applause was the audience’s way of e...

A term greatly beloved of the Narendra Modi government is ‘surgical strike’. It was first invoked in September 2016, after a cross-border raid undertaken by the Indian army on camps in Pakistan. N...

The state forest department has decided to attach collars fitted with GPS tracking devices to wild elephants to monitor the movement of herds in north Bengal.The project, sources said, would be carrie...

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has identified 60 polluted river stretches based on biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) in different northeastern states, a study published by Delhi-based Centre...

A woman on the dais of a physics seminar is a rarity, Parnika Das of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) told Metro, speaking about gender play in the world of physics. “And even if there is...

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...

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...

The science and technology ministry will this November host the fifth India International Science Festival in Calcutta where hundreds of students will seek to simultaneously repeat Jagadis Chandra Bos...

Sir — The 20-year-old engineering student, Monjita Baruah, was recently given the opportunity to head the British diplomatic mission in Calcutta for a day. This was part of an initiative by the Bri...