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Bring justice to your own people, DidiThe Sandeshkhali incident in West Bengal reveals the failure of the Mamata Banerjee government to take strong action against the perpetrato...
Indian-origin climate protester who disrupted US Open charged with criminal trespassAccording to the New York Police Department, two men were charged after their protest at the US Open disrupted a tennis match held at the A...
This Communist student leader turned down Novartis, worked on Covid, joined Bengal’s poll skirmishShuvam Banerjee, the CPI’s young candidate in the Sonarpur assembly constituency, sticks to the basics in his campaign. He believes the tid...
View: Lockdown and covid woes, then add cyclonic destructionAt some point the questions give way to explanations that involve the gods, or fate, or happenstance, or coincidence, or chaos. Answers bec...
View: Islam’s contribution to agricultureFrom the 8th to the 15th century, the ‘Islamic corridor’ between Europe and Asia improved agricultural practices across Spain, North Africa...
View: India creates its own border crisisThis is a needless crisis. What will India do with the two million people left off the register?
Clean energy crosses 62 GW mark; solar over 16W, wind 32.7GWThe minister informed the House that the power generated from these sources is fed into the grid and then utilised by distribution companie...
- Global concern for Sunderbans
The World Heritage Committee has expressed alarm over a massive oil spill in the Bangladeshi side of the Sunderbans — a world heritage site...
Oil spill alarm in Sundarban mangrovesBiswajit Roy Chowdhury, state wildlife advisory board member, is also worried about Olive Ridley turtles that migrate around this time and ...
- Oil spill alarm in Sundarban mangroves
Marine scientists, wildlife activists and forest officers from Indian Sunderbans have gone on alert following the oil spill in Bangladesh.
Industrial waste polluting ecosystem of Sundarbans: ReportIndustries located along the Gangetic delta in Haldia, Kolkata and its outskirts are polluting the fragile ecosystem of Sundarbans.
Industrial waste polluting Sundarbans ecosystem: ReportIndustries located along the Gangetic delta in Haldia, Kolkata and its outskirts are polluting the fragile ecosystem of Sundarbans.
Poke Me: Why India needs freer immigrationImmigrants work harder. Plots cultivated by native West Bengal peasants are less productive than those run by their cross-border brethren.
- Dolphin poaching goes unabated
Despite Gangetic dolphins being an endangered species, they are being killed at an alarming rate in Bihar.
- Red menace grows in Sunderbans
Maoists have begun to make inroads into Sunderbans and other locations.
- On the edge of the tide
In the wake of Hurricane Aila, everyone has heard of the devastation in the evergreen mangrove glades of Sundarbans.
- Sundarbans: On the edge of the tide
Sundarban literally the beautiful forest in Bengali is the worlds largest delta formed by the mighty trio of rivers, the Ganges, Meghna and...
- Solution to arsenic poisoning in India found
British scientists claim to have found a solution to the world's worst case of poisoning through exposure to arsenic in rice and water in e...
- Hilsa a great seasonal draw, if fished judiciously
There is nothing so close to the heart of the Bengali as ilish maach, especially when the monsoon clouds hang low.
- Industrious revolution and Indian agriculture
Indian agricultural policy over the last few decades has shifted focus away from productivity, trade and markets to subsidising low product...