With large number of elephants often getting injured or killed by running train in different districts of North Bengal, the pachyderm-human conflict has reached dangerous heights. Since most railway lines in Jalpaiguri, Coochbehar and Alipurduar run through forests, that are considered as major elephant corridors,
There was a time when they chopped trees illegally in the forests of North Bengal. And why did they do so? Simply because they had no other employment. Well, we are talking about the hundreds of youths of Buxa-Jayanti belt, where illegal timber logging was
Bengal is indebted to Sayani Das, not because she crossed Australia’s Rottnest Channel in end February, as the first ever Bengali to achieve this feat, but because she has shown enough grit and courage against the usual pang of debts and lack of funding, to
Dr Samuel Rai, Director of Cinchona Plantation, made great efforts to trace the Scottish doctor’s family who had set up the rare medicinal plantation. GB speaks to him After my joining Cinchona Plantation as Director in November 2013, I wanted to know who started the Cinchona
He lives in Siliguri’s Salbari and has always been interested in anything and everything ancient. One can say Bipul Sarkar has a passion for anything old, so much so that he often travels to Kolkata to view a letter written by Rabindranath Tagore or Netaji
An entire body of nearly lost dialects and scripts belonging to the various tribal communities of Bengal is all set to be resurrected through a massive archive. A team of scholars from the English department of Vidyasagar University has travelled for months through one tribal
Dr Samuel Rai, Director of Cinchona Directorate, Mungpoo, shares with GB tales of Cinchona plantation from the days of the British Raj Cinchona is harvested in a traditional method during November-February, for which the entire plant is cut and the bark is removed right from main
The use of sanitary pad during menstruation is first and foremost for women’s health and hygiene. But most girls of the country still use unhygienic clothes in place of ‘use and throw’ sanitary pads, not just due to lack of awareness, but also because they
The work at the Panchayat level that was allocated for a tenure of three years has been completed within one year. The World Bank is so impressed by the efficiency of the state’s Panchayat system and achievements that it has decided to allocate once more
An innovative approach to save a waterbody in Kolkata! The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state power department will come up with a 300KW floating solar power plant on Bikramgarh Jheel, located behind South City Mall. This will be the first floating solar power