British Indian spy Noor Inayat Khan honoured with new postage stamp in France
London, Nov 23: Noor Inayat Khan, a descendent of the 18th-century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan, has become the only Indian-origin woman to be honoured...
Indigenous chicken breed ‘Syiar Markasa’ set for official recognition
Guwahati, Nov 21: Syiar Markasa, an indigenous chicken breed named after Markasa village in Eastern West Khasi Hills, is set to get its first...
Cancer-fighting potential found in rare plant endemic to Meghalaya
Guwahati, Nov 10: The potent pharmacological potential of an endangered and endemic medicinal plant Goniothalamus simonsii Hook. f. Thoms., found only in select forest...
Legal aid not merely act of charity but moral duty: CJI Gavai
New Delhi, Nov 9: Chief Justice of India BR Gavai on Sunday said that legal aid is not merely an act of charity but...
Bengal: 2 young women defy norms to marry in Sundarbans temple, village rallies behind them
Kultali (WB) , Nov 8: In a quiet hamlet deep inside Sundarbans, where mangrove forests guard a maze of rivers and traditions run long...
Road, science hall sought to be named after Lapang
Shillong, Oct 25: The Hid Foundation Shillong has urged the state government to consider naming a prominent road in Shillong after late Dr DD...
Indian-origin historian Sunil Amrith wins British Academy Book Prize
London, Oct 23: 'The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years' by Indian-origin historian Sunil Amrith has been named the winner...
Education must be creative, not confined to theoretical learning: Assam Guv
Guwahati, Oct 19: Assam Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya has stressed on making education based on creative and critical thinking, and said it should not...
Study by USTM faculty member features in The Lancet
Shillong, Oct 14: A study conducted by Dr. Yugal Kishore Mohanta, faculty member in the Department of Applied Biology of the University of Science...
Woman in her 90s laments cutting of peepul tree she had planted 25 years ago; video goes viral
Khairagarh (Chhattisgarh), Oct 12: A video of an elderly woman's lament after a peepul tree she had planted 25 years ago was illegally cut...
The long distance to democracy: Migrant workers’ political passion meets harsh reality
By Toby Antony
Kochi, Oct 12: Bipesh Kumar Yadav fills a motorcycle's tank at a petrol pump in Alappuzha, but his mind is over a...
In space, it’s no longer about nationality but humanity: IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla
Panaji, Oct 10: IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who became the first Indian to reach the International Space Station (ISS), said on Friday that...
