With over 3,000 species of plants, 26 interconnected lakes and the 250-year-old Great Banyan Tree -- the largest in the world -- the Indian Botanic Garden is a veritable treasure, discovers Payal......
Experts have voiced their concern that the decision to remove Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution from 10th-grade textbooks may help propagate superstitious beliefs and irrational practices among......
The fiercest cyclone to hit Bengal in 100 yrs destroyed mud houses and crops, and uprooted trees and electric poles.Windows buckled from the pressure of the storm, cars floated on water-logged......
Amphan was the fiercest Cyclone to hit West Bengal in the last 100 years.A large part of the state was without power as electricity poles have been blown away.Mobile and internet services were also......
'His contributions in setting up transparent precedents of governance are still basically intact despite the cynicism of several of his successors,' notes Jamini Bhagwati. Photograph: Homai......
When we reach his home in Kandukur village in Andhra Pradesh, 21-year-old Nukathoti Kondaiah serves us bottled mineral water, freshly cut fruit and cold drinks in plastic cups. That may not seem......
Either Harry Langton is having a bad hair day or he hasn't slept too well on his flight from London to Delhi. Or maybe he's just a poor traveller, having replaced his father, chairman Andrew......
The ageless voice of vocalist Prabha Atre floats off the speakers at the head office of Ninaad Records. The niche music label is in the process of putting together a two-series album comprising......
When a banyan tree's branches hit the ground, they start acting as roots, too. After a while, it is difficult to make out which is the tree's main source of nutrition -- the original roots, or the......
Dabur India Ltd has sued a Delhi school for allegedly infringing the company's registered trademark -- the banyan tree. The company has been using the tree as its logo for the last 100 years. Two......
With Hindi Medium and Angrezi Medium, the "English-medium" actor of independent movies shows she can easily fit into mainstream Hindi movies too. IMAGE: Tillotama Shome moved to Mumbai in 2011 to......