Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) has decided to widen its footprint in West Bengal ahead of next year's assembly election. The party has launched a phone number to ...

There are a good 10 famine areas where that has been declared, where people have no food, where people are dying of hunger. Out of the 10, we only have access to four. So six we, at this point in ...

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is ...

Instead, he cites reams of evidence to show that famine is not imminent. He also points out that Malthus became less pessimistic after a few years and cheekily observes that “Malthus was not a ...

Scientists found that the wild mushroom kurkure chhatu (Astraeus asiaticus), commonly found in Birbhum and Bankura, contains compounds that can fight cervical, lung, and breast cancers. Human ...

Dr Swapan Kumar Ghosh, a researcher from Bengal, has discovered a cancer-fighting compound in the Astraeus asiaticus mushroom found in Bankura and Birbhum forests. His study, published in Nature's ...

His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans.

While Hili is a border town in West Bengal, Mahendraganj is a border town in Meghalaya's Garo Hills region. Both areas share the border with Bangladesh. Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said ...

Netflix on Wednesday unveiled the trailer ofKhakee: The Bengal Chapter, the latest installment in the Khakee franchise. Produced by Friday Storytellers and created by Neeraj Pandey, and directed ...

East Bengal FC will look to overcome its recent failure on the domestic stage with a good performance internationally when it meets Turkmenistan’s FK Arkadag in the first leg of the AFC Challenge ...