How tall can a Christmas tree get? Well, in October of this year, the world’s tallest natural Christmas tree was set up in the city of Enid in Oklahoma, USA. Standing 140 feet (42.6 m) tall, the towering tree was transported neary 2,000 miles from
June 16, 1756. The day Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah of Murshidabad launched his brief but devastating siege against the ‘British settlement’ of Calcutta. Three days later, he had control over the township. How the British shook him off and eventually wrested not only Calcutta, but the whole
The plant species bearing the intimidating name Aeschynomene is much more familiar to us as the humble 'shola', the dried milky-white plant matter that craftsmen from Bengal have long pressed and shaped into exquisite objects of art. Beneath its hard outer bark, the plant's inner
The world has gone through immense amounts of grief and pain in the past two years. The Covid crisis has perhaps changed us forever. Amidst all the turmoil, we ought to be thankful that some things remain constant, big or small. One of those is
In the eleventh and penultimate episode of ‘The Anita Dialogues’, the discussion revolves around the many books and films about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The Anita Dialogues is a series of monthly conversations with Netaji’s daughter Dr Anita Bose Pfaff, aired on YouTube and conducted
On July 29, 2019, India released the much-awaited and fairly delayed Tiger Census report 2018, which disclosed that the country had 2,967 Royal Bengal Tigers in the wild, though the census for the following four years is currently underway across various states, and the final
Representative Image Siachen Glacier, located near the Indo-Pak Line of Control, is known to be the highest battlefield in the world. It is the longest glacier in the Karakoram Range, running 78 km long and the second largest in the world. Can you imagine how the
Happy days are here again for tourists who have been counting months and days on their fingertips, waiting for governments to lift regulations imposed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic since last year, and tear up the miles once again. The tourism sector in North Bengal
This is the incredible story of Ratna Chakraborty, a 70-plus, forgotten soldier of the Bangladesh War of Liberation (Muktijuddho), and how a sustained campaign by one Bangladeshi news portal has helped restore her honour and dignity. And on Bijay Dibas today, the day when Pakistan
The first ‘Sundarban Dibas’ (Sundarban Day) was conceptualised in 2002 and scheduled for August, but the date was later shifted to December 11 and 12 to coincide with the dates when the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) declared most of the Indian