Gobhir Mallika --- Imagine a gigantic black hole having a poetic name and that too in Bengali! But this imagination will soon come to be true with black hole - Sagittarius A being renamed as known as Gobhir Mallika. Astronomers around the world will soon
Amidst the disaster that extreme cyclonic storm Fani is causing to Orissa and Bengal, here comes a new alert for another impending disaster, that of a probable earthquake to hit any part of India, or even Himalayas, that is already prone to Earthquakes. A US
Most of us get so caught in the web of life and forget to care about the rest of the world. In search of greener pastures, we often leave our roots and never look back. But PranabeshMaiti, is a true son of the soil- who
One of the most precious member of the Botanical Gardens is the 300-year-old Great Banyan Tree. Keeping in mind the havoc that two cyclones of 1864 and 1867 left on this huge tree, the botanists have been extra-cautious this time to save the tree from
Mosquito menace at Kolkata Airport! Well, if you thought this is the cover name of a detective novel, be in for a surprise. Just like many media houses are trying to execute sting operations to unearth various tales of probable corruptions, Dumdum Airport has a
If you have been to Santiniketan in Spring or during Basanta Utsav, you must have watched hordes of urbanites crowding the scene with ornaments of Palash flowers adorning them. Once upon a time Rabindranath Tagore himself had encouraged girls and women ashramites to wear these
Dol- the Festival of Colours, popularly known as Basanta Utsav, is just a few days away. A group of specially-abled young boys and girls from Uluberia are truly making a difference in the festival of hues in their own way by making a fragrant herbal
The day doesn’t seem to start without that warm cuppa of tea every morning for any Bengali. Having the tea gardens of Dooars and Darjeeling so close by, no wonder tea is a must-have beverage of Bengal. But the usual tea varieties are undergoing a
We often tend to undermine our stray dogs, popularly named as ‘Neri’ in Bengal and most dog lovers have been seen going got foreign fancy breed of dogs. When it comes to class, we do not feel the need to consider our home-grown dogs important
Reetwika Banerjee is a Cyber Security Expert by profession, an avid traveller, a shutterbug and a nature explorer. A private garden can get the status of wildlife sanctuary was unbelievable to me till the time I visited this piece of green splash in the heart of