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

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

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

प्रसाद होकर भी उपेक्षित पनियाला

छठ पर्व में प्रसाद के रूप में पनियाला का अपना महत्व है। औ…

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  

Why are tea plantation workers dying of hunger?

Lack of oversight by state governments, along with low wages and tough working conditions, is causing starvation deaths, says a fact finding team

प्राकृतिक तरीके से जैविक कपड़े बनाती हैं ये महिलाएं

वर्धमान और नाडिया जिले की महिलाएं न केवल प्राकृतिक तरीक…

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

Kolkata's smog is a challenge of complex chemistry and action

The city needs to build up on its strengths to tackle smog episodes

The Gharials of the Gandak: A conservation success story

Two recent surveys indicate that the Gandak, a trans-boundary river between Nepal and India, houses 210 gharials in the Indian section, the second-…