There are places which resist definition. They do not yield their secrets easily, nor can they be made to turn on a pithy phrase or a charming paragraph. Writing about them often feels like an ...

An adult Royal Bengal Tiger, which had strayed into a village in Kultali area of South 24 Parganas district, was trapped inside a cage on Tuesday night after eluding forest personnel and villagers for ...

At least two men have died in tiger attacks this month in the Sunderbans while they were out fishing, forest officials said. The actual number could be more. Accounts by residents and members of the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Sunderbans forests, locally known as Badabon, are one of the richest biodiversity hotspots in India. This UNESCO World Heritage site is known for ...

Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has asked the people to cast their votes for the right cause in the 2011 elections. No, it’s not the Assembly polls, though he is sure to have that in mind too.

We exchanged the bus for a boat to continue with our onward journey into the heartlands of the Sunderbans National Park but were surprised to find that we were not far from human habitations. Our ...

The Sunderbans has seen the maximum number of incidents of tigers straying out of the reserved forest in 2021 after a decline to nearly zero in the past few years, raising fears of increased ...

The Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, and home to the Royal Bengal Tiger, is gradually losing its very dense tree cover, data released by the Forest Survey of India on Thursday has ...

The cyclonic storm developing in the Bay of Bengal will primarily impact the Sunderbans spread over West Bengal and Bangladesh, the Met Department said on Sunday. Cars bump into each other, heavy rain ...

Sunderbans delta in eastern India is the land of man-eating tigers where dozens of people are killed every year by the big cats. Image caption, Sunderbans is a cluster of 54 tiny islands located in ...