About 500 school girls from Assam have produced a ‘Children’s Agenda’ focusing on health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, education and...

While ex situ conservation demonstrates the remarkable capacity to secure genetic resources, priority should be conserving natural habitats

Augmenting evidence on the dangers of pollution to unborn babies, when pregnant women breathe polluted air, sooty particles reach the placenta through...

The fast deteriorating Ganga could stall food security and prevent achieving SDGs

Scientists explore bioplastic from sorghum, illustrates Sahana Ghosh.

According to Indologist Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Hindu-Muslim integration during the Durga Puja was not uncommon in undivided Bengal.

Twenty-four-year-old Jiya was once forced to dance at gunpoint. Now the plucky transwoman from West Bengal is blazing a trail of success as a trainee...

The eco-friendly, cost effective ‘smart polymer’ technology is the brainchild of scientist R J Krupadam, who recently received the National Award for...

 When the villagers were given the option to install a sophisticated water filtration plant, they welcomed it with open arms. Now the successful...

Let the hip-shaking zumba and the energising rhythm of the conga jazz it up for you. Thanks to a clutch of Kolkata musicians and dancers, Latin music...

With a hoot and a honk, meandering through Dhaka’s famed traffic snarls, the legion of psychedelic rickshaws that are an essential part of...

Directed at channeling the ‘patriotic spirit’ of youngsters in Bangladesh to create a ‘secular youth force’, the Shahbag movement, that peaked in...