A few questions to begin with

Mari Marcel Thekaekara has worked with indigenous people in the Nilgiri mountains for thirty years, and researched and written about dalits and …

Goolar ka chokha

Poi saagdal

How the GST has affected traditional weavers in West Bengal

Orders from wholesalers have dried up, affecting the weavers' income

Climate-smart agriculture in Cooch Behar, West Bengal

The National Innovations on Climate-resilient Agriculture was launched by the central government in 2011. It covers 121 villages in the country. …

James Bong

A scourge called arsenic

Alloy of 8: Non-descript Pukhuria keeps making bowls the same way for 150 years

Village in Bengal's Bankura district now sends its craftwork to as far as Australia

Why is there a witch-hunt against doctors in India?

So asks a doctor as he narrates the plight of his tribe, which he feels, is being increasingly targeted in the country

NHRC raps Mamata govt on silicosis rehabilitation

At least 250 people from Minakhan block in Sunderbans contracted the disease when they left home to work as labourers in stone and mineral …

Tense Bengal breathes in relief as Cyclone Fani exits without much damage

Cyclonic storm turned into deep depression in Bangladesh. No major damage in West Bengal

The sheer folly of Indian GIs

States are competing to pile up Geographical Indication tags without studying the benefit to producers

Nipped in the bud

Clay mines kill

Little chance of Kolkata getting CNG soon; land acquisition hiccups halt supply

The land acquisition process for the pipeline in West Bengal is slow, says GAIL, the Union government’s nodal agency for supplying CNG

Toxic punch: heavy use of pesticides depleting local fish and bird populations

Study from West Bengal documents 94 brands of pesticides, farmers most influenced by local dealers

जहां थी पहले नदी, वहां बिछाई जा रही है मेट्रो लाइन?

कोलकाता के बहूबाजार में मेट्रो की सुरंग बनाते वक्त निकला पानी, आसपास के घरों में आई दरार, हादसे के डर से 700 लोगों को हटाया

Researchers produce power from wet clothes

IIT Kharagpur researchers generated power in natural ambience using the intrinsic surface energy of the fabric

Trawlers push small fisherfolk out of business

Bottom trawling has spelt doom for small-scale fishermen in Bengal's East Midnapore district. Faced with a bleak future due to reduced fish catch,…

New aquaculture project

Drenched by doubts

Officials dismiss green rain in Bengal village as bee droppings, but experts find flaws in the theory

Eating the banana (tree)

Virtually every part of the banana tree finds use in kitchens across south, east and northeastern India. Here are a few recipes from Bengal

Website review: http://www.indiastat.com

From the minutest details of India's administrative set-up to statistics on villages, this A - Z compendium is a treasure house for academics, …

Stop replication

Viral genome reveals the way to check attacks on tassar

Homoeopathy goes nano

Anti-cancer potential of yellow jessamine can be enhanced