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Concerns from young ones
20 March 2019 9:02 PM ISTAbout 500 school girls from Assam have produced a ‘Children’s Agenda’ focusing on health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, education and...
Can we bank on seed banks alone?
23 Nov 2018 10:26 PM ISTWhile ex situ conservation demonstrates the remarkable capacity to secure genetic resources, priority should be conserving natural habitats
Soot in placenta
16 Nov 2018 10:25 PM ISTAugmenting evidence on the dangers of pollution to unborn babies, when pregnant women breathe polluted air, sooty particles reach the placenta through...
Dangers of dwindling Ganga
18 Sept 2018 10:04 PM ISTThe fast deteriorating Ganga could stall food security and prevent achieving SDGs
The future of plastic?
22 July 2018 11:32 PM ISTScientists explore bioplastic from sorghum, illustrates Sahana Ghosh.
Tales of communal harmony this Durga Puja
14 Sept 2017 4:07 PM ISTAccording to Indologist Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Hindu-Muslim integration during the Durga Puja was not uncommon in undivided Bengal.
Bengal transwomen on track to become paramedics
16 Aug 2017 11:05 AM ISTTwenty-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...
Pollution control to turn snappy
15 Aug 2014 4:38 AM ISTThe eco-friendly, cost effective ‘smart polymer’ technology is the brainchild of scientist R J Krupadam, who recently received the National Award for...
Technology, a boon for rural Maharashtra
1 Dec 2013 3:42 AM IST When the villagers were given the option to install a sophisticated water filtration plant, they welcomed it with open arms. Now the successful...
One Two Cha Cha cha
23 July 2013 10:59 PM ISTLet 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...
Dhaka’s rickshaw army
29 May 2013 1:08 AM ISTWith a hoot and a honk, meandering through Dhaka’s famed traffic snarls, the legion of psychedelic rickshaws that are an essential part of...
Shahbag movement lives on
23 May 2013 7:46 PM ISTDirected at channeling the ‘patriotic spirit’ of youngsters in Bangladesh to create a ‘secular youth force’, the Shahbag movement, that peaked in...