A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Myanmar, causing damage and casualties across the country and in neighbouring ...

Throughout the history of Homo sapiens we see violence brutally inflicted by the powerful as against the powerless. History also exposes the greed and dominating nature of humans that shows no ...

Fort William has been designated Vijay Durg by the BJP-led central government in celebration of India’s greatest military ...

Balochistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) do share some commonalities, such as being part of larger political entities – ...

He has lowered the status of the Leader of Opposition by saying that he will throw out the Muslim MLAs from the State Assembly if the BJP comes to power in Bengal. If he comes to beat us are we ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach and menaces U.S. allies.

India's bristle worms are often overlooked. But they are crucial to the health of the country's wetlands – which is why local women are working to catch the poachers decimating their population ...

Kolkata: West Bengal topped the list in MSME manufacturing industries and also recorded the highest percentage of women-headed establishments in the country, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on ...

Threatened, ostracised and pushed to the edge, a group of about 130 Dalit families in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman ... "Currently India is a secular nation and the Constitution has erased all ...

He says, “Do you know that it was Bengal’s rivers that triggered the advent of the railways?” In the mid-19th century, the British, greedy and keen to exploit Bengal’s resources, built extensive rail ...

To the East India Company and the British Raj that followed it, mapping was an obsession. The empires that came before them, such as the Mughal and the Marathas, did not engage in cartography in ...