Zooming in on three prize-winners

A look at this year's award-winning documentaries: an educational film on the Silent Valley, a campaign film on the Tehri dam project and a third …

"People who own cars make life unpleasant"

John Whitelegg of the School of Built Environment at Liverpool's John Moores University spoke to Anish Gupta about Calcutta's transport …

"We lack information on the effects of pollution"

JUSTICE BHAGWATI PRASAD BANERJEE of the green bench of the Calcutta high court stirred more than a hornet's nest in April 1996, when he passed an …

Innocent victims

High on sugar

Diabetes on the rise in India

Indian camphorweed can cure amoebiasis

Pumpkin a day

Root therapy

Benzene in the air

Levels of carcinogenic pollutants are alarmingly high in Calcutta's air

Chemical in curry leaves can cure prostate cancer

NEWS SNIPPETS

Flowering of scientific research in nineteenth century Calcutta

Scorpion venom may cure blood cancer

Weak gene

A prick-free test for diabetes

Painkiller's ulcerous trail

Generators of Trouble

Soil detox from Kolkata wetlands

In Court

Compound in toad skin could cure liver cancer

Bile helps fight cholera

Eco-friendly printing ink from vegetable oil

Megacities get a Central boost

Fait accompli

Even a 'limited' Indo-Pak war would see three million deaths

Yellow metal can fight cancer