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How Migratory Fish Navigate India's Rivers During the Monsoon Using a Biological Compass Science Is Still Mapping

The fish that reads the river like a mapThe Hilsa, Tenualosa ilisha, can detect a change in water salinity of less than 0.1 parts per thousand. That sensitivity is not incidental. It is the opening move in one of the most precise navigational performances in freshwater biology. Every monsoon, adult…

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The Hilsa Fish: Bengal's Beloved Ilish and the Ecology Behind India's Overfishing Crisis

A Fish That Lives Two LivesThe hilsa, Tenualosa ilisha, is an anadromous species: it spends most of its adult life in the Bay of Bengal and the coastal sea, then swims hundreds of kilometres upstream into freshwater rivers to spawn. This is the same biological strategy used by salmon, and…

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What Happened When Ramakrishna Followed Every Religion?

The Man Who Ran the Experiment Between roughly 1861 and 1874, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa did something no theologian had proposed and no institution had sanctioned. He practiced, in sequence and with full commitment, the sadhana of traditions that were supposed to be mutually exclusive. He spent months in Tantric discipline under…

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TMC leader Shakir Ali gets conditional bail in Ram Navami violence case

A special court has granted conditional bail to TMC leader Shakir Ali, husband of former MP Aparupa Poddar, in connection with the 2023 Hooghly Ram Navami rally violence. Ali, a former Rishra municipality councillor, was arrested earlier this week. The court mandated his appearance before the NIA fortnightly and prohibited…

The Economic Times

Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee claims BJP supporters attacked, injured him outside Chanditala police station

Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee claimed head injuries after a mob incident in West Bengal's Hooghly district. He was demonstrating outside Chanditala police station. Banerjee alleged BJP supporters are responsible for the attack. This follows a similar incident involving Abhishek Banerjee. Police and central forces were deployed. The BJP denied…

The Economic Times

After Abhishek Banerjee, TMC's Kalyan Banerjee allegedly attacked in Hooghly

TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee was reportedly attacked near Chanditala Police Station in West Bengal's Hooghly district while submitting a deputation on post-poll violence. This follows a similar alleged attack on Abhishek Banerjee in South 24 Parganas, where protesters reportedly hurled stones and eggs. Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of orchestrating…

The Economic Times

Jute industry seeks new Bengal govt's intervention to tide over raw material crisis

West Bengal’s jute industry is staring at a major crisis as raw jute shortages and soaring prices disrupt operations across mills in the Hooghly industrial belt. Around 14 mills have either suspended work or cut production, while nearly 75,000 workers face job losses or irregular employment, industry bodies said.

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Four labourers killed as truck hits van in West Bengal

KOLKATA: A van transporting construction workers was struck by a truck in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Wednesday, resulting in the death of four labourers.

The Times of India

Kumbh Mela at Tribeni: inventing tradition in West Bengal

Kumbh Mela at Tribeni: inventing tradition in West Bengal; The transformation of a local custom of a ritualistic bath into a Kumbh Mela is part of an ongoing political project

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