Los Angeles (IANS) Stan Lee, the colourful Marvel Comics patriarch who helped usher in a new era of superhero storytelling, died at the age of 95, with a string of Hollywood personalities including Chris Hemsworth, Ryan Reynolds and Robert Downey Jr., … read more
Kolkata (IANS) Walking cautiously along the narrow lanes of Kumartuli, the traditional sculpting hub and potters’ lane in north Kolkata, one can easily locate the few women idol makers who have carved a niche for themselves in a world hitherto dominated … read more
Kolkata (IANS/Mongabay) They may be microscopic in size, but bacterioplankton steer major carbon cycling and food webs in aquatic ecosystems. Bacterioplankton are the bacterial component of plankton that live in water bodies, including oceans and lakes. Now, scientists at the … read more
As a child, Shubhangi Swarup, who has set off a whisper in the contemporary fiction space with her debut novel “Latitudes of Longing”, was fascinated by the history of landscapes. Her mother, a poet herself, would often tell her that … read more
By Azera Parveen Rahman Guwahati: In a small town called Pathsala, about 60 km from this principal town of Assam, a mission has been underway for more than half a century. The task at hand is not easy — revival of … read more