All stories by Saptarshi Banerjee
'Nowhere to go': Dream Sikkim tour turns nightmare for tourists
Rediff.com5 Oct 2023138 members of Bharat Scouts and Guides from West Bengal, mostly aged between 10 and 15 years, braved their way back to New Jalpaiguri railway station from Sikkim before heading home to Barrackpore near Kolkata to narrate their harrowing experience.
Aditya-L1 to study how Earth's climate will change in upcoming centuries
Rediff.com31 Aug 2023Scientists expect to get new information about the past, present and future of the Sun after analysing the data that will be collected by India's first solar mission Aditya-L1, scheduled to be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on September 2.
Manipur violence: Heart-wrenching scenes at Imphal airport
Rediff.com9 May 2023Close to 2,000 passengers are stranded at the premises of the airport, the terminal building of which can handle only 750 passengers -- 250 for arrival and 500 for departure -- at a time.
Bengal Cong chief doesn't want ISF as ally in future
Rediff.com10 May 2021Following a debacle in the West Bengal assembly election, state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has said he does not want to contest any future election in an alliance which has the Indian Secular Front (ISF) as a partner.