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Concerns from young ones

20 March 2019 9:02 PM IST
About 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 IST
While 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 IST
Augmenting 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 IST
The fast deteriorating Ganga could stall food security and prevent achieving SDGs

The future of plastic?

22 July 2018 11:32 PM IST
Scientists explore bioplastic from sorghum, illustrates Sahana Ghosh.

Tales of communal harmony this Durga Puja

14 Sept 2017 4:07 PM IST
According 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 IST
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...

Pollution control to turn snappy

15 Aug 2014 4:38 AM IST
The 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 IST
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...

Dhaka’s rickshaw army

29 May 2013 1:08 AM IST
With 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 IST
Directed at channeling the ‘patriotic spirit’ of youngsters in Bangladesh to create a ‘secular youth force’, the Shahbag movement, that peaked in...
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