Moushumi Basu

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Moushumi Basu is a Kolkata-based freelance journalist

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Development|Rural Development

नई चुनौतियों से निपटने के लिए पारंपरिक ज्ञान का इस्तेमाल कर रहे हैं ये मछुआरे

मछुआरों के काम आ रहे हैं मछली पकड़ने के परंपरागत उपकरण

Economy

Net Gain: A photo essay on riverine Assam

How and where fishing nets of diverse shapes and varying mesh sizes are used in riverine Assam

Wildlife & Biodiversity

How Maharashtra’s dam on ‘Human’ river threatens tigers

The dam proposed at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve threatens to submerge more than 90 per cent of a 7-km forest area

Health

A breakthrough for a rare genetic disorder

After 13 years of experiments and research, Indian scientist Surajit Sinha has developed a chemical formula to make medicine for Duchenne …

Agriculture|Farming

दुनिया भर में दी जाती है बोंडा घाटी की खेती की मिसाल, जानें क्या है वजह

बोंडा ओडिशा की आदिम जनजातियों में शामिल है। इस जनजाति क�…

Development|Rural Development

प्राकृतिक तरीके से जैविक कपड़े बनाती हैं ये महिलाएं

वर्धमान और नाडिया जिले की महिलाएं न केवल प्राकृतिक तरीक…

Science & Technology

IISF 2019: Festival concludes, with organisers claiming success

It narrowed the gap between scientists and commoners ever more, they say

Health

IISF 2019: Health conclave multitude of issues

Rampant use of antibiotics in focus

Science & Technology

IISF 2019: Experts talk about science through mass communication and research

While one event was about mass communication tools to take science to the masses, the other talked about how budding Indian science researchers …

Agriculture

IISF 2019: Experts advise sustainable, climate-smart, diverse farming

With reduced land holdings, increasing populations and climate change looming large, this was the solution to farmers’ problems, they said

Science & Technology

IISF 2019: Science should be inventive and innovative, says PM Modi

The four-day event began in Kolkata on November 5

Agriculture

This Odisha tribe grows 20 crop varieties without jeopardising biodiversity

The Bonda tribe practices a unique form of shifting cultivation that enables the growth of many crop varieties while ensuring that the …

Climate Change

Jamdani: How cotton gets niche and green

How the women of Burdwan and Nadia districts in West Bengal weave magic

Health

How West Bengal plans to counter a shift in dengue strain

Health and family welfare departmentt alerts district magistrates, focuses on slums as new serotype takes centre stage

Governance

From Kolkata police, with love

The Kolkata police is providing a social platform to over 15,000 senior citizens to help them cope with loneliness

Health

Can rosogolla be healthy?

A 100 g serving of rosogolla has 186-200 calories, depending on the sugar content, but a tulsi rosogolla made by a young breed of …

Agriculture

Agroforestry boosts rice and biodiversity in India

In West Bengal, the adoption of useful trees into paddy fields has boosted crop yields and crop diversity, and has also sparked a movement that …

Energy

"Solar power tariff will soon fall to Rs 1.50 per unit"

Bringing affordable solar power on the doorsteps of common citizens and enabling Universal Energy Access seem to be the guiding force behind the …

Climate Change

Plucking out problems

Tea estates in Darjeeling are embracing innovative techniques to combat the impacts of climate change

Agriculture

Indigenous appeal

Farmers in West Bengal are going back to indigenous rice varieties, with a little encouragement

Wildlife & Biodiversity

Bright and black

Female tigers at the Similipal reserve in Odisha are increasingly giving birth to black or melanistic breeds and catching rare worldwide attention

Wildlife & Biodiversity

Trouble in India’s rhino paradise

Poachers killed 18 rhinos in Kaziranga National Park in 2016 — most recently on December 22 — but experts still see many reasons for hope

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