In a surprising turn, rival football clubs Mohun Bagan and East Bengal united to protest a crime in Kolkata. Hilsa fish, a Bengali favorite...

Juvenile hilsa weighing 50-200 g is causing damage to the hilsa ecosystem in the Ganga estuary. Trawlers are bringing in mainly small hilsa...

Few people know about the Dungi caves of Mumbai that have now made way for the New Navi Mumbai Airport coming up at Panvel. In fact, most M...

The study also brought out the fact that most of the dense mangrove forest will degrade into less dense, open mangrove forest by the turn o...

Six years after cyclone Aila, the existential threat faced by the people and fauna in one of the world’s largest mangroves has reached alar...

The production has dwindled from 80,000 tonne in 2001 to nearly 15,000 tonne in 2013 largely due to over-fishing in the Bay of Bengal.

The production has dwindled from 80,000 tonne in 2001 to nearly 15,000 tonne in 2013 largely due to over-fishing in the Bay of Bengal.

Going by the present trend of poor hilsa availability, millions of Bengalis and others may have to settle for 'chakori' this season.

The Ganges river dolphins are one of the four living species of dolphin that reside in freshwater rivers and estuaries. There were 4,000-5,...