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Topic: Sundarbans

Kolkata puja pandal bringing Durga & Bonbibi together. A sense of Sundarbans in the city

At the pandal, one would get to know the stories of faceless delta dwellers like Krishnapada Mandal and Mohammad Jolil Borkondas.

Sundarbans under threat from heavy toxic metals & acidity in air, finds IIT Kanpur study

Researchers from IIT-Kanpur & Bose Institute compiled the peer-reviewed study & list 10 recommendations to stop degradation of Sundarbans, world's largest mangrove forest.

Bengali cinema is in a Kolkata rut. Can Sundarbans goddess Bonbibi pull it out?

Bengali film ‘Bonbibi’, slated for release on 8 March, marks a departure from Kolkata-centric stories. Producer Rana Sarkar says it could be West Bengal’s answer to ‘Kantara’.

India’s oldest Royal Bengal tiger in captivity leaves a legacy of fight, might and survival

While Raja’s tale of survival was 'marvelous', it stressed the role of the forest department in protecting the animals in their natural habitat.

‘Didn’t want others to know I had miscarried’—Women in Sundarbans struggle for healthcare

All of 22 and already worn down by health problems for over three to four years, as Meenu Sardar stepped out to fetch water...

Why the Mughals stayed away from the Sundarbans

In ‘Pandemic’, Sonia Shah writes that the Sundarbans remained largely untouched till the 17th century. Then the East India Company came.

Plastic tents on shaky dykes — Bengal’s Amphan-hit villages are waiting for help 60 days on

Amid corruption charges over the relief package in West Bengal after Cyclone Amphan, villagers in the Sundarbans area are still living without water and electricity.

How villagers in Sundarbans are rebuilding lives after Amphan — the ‘scariest storm’ so far

In West Bengal's South 24 Parganas, which faced maximum brunt of Cyclone Amphan, electricity poles are uprooted. Sundarbans fishermen are affected. Those into farming have lost crops.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.