The bond between jute and Bengali culture grows stronger with evidence of anti-oxidant properties in jute leaves. Jute saag  mops up arsenic toxicity that plagues hundreds living in the Gangetic delta of West Bengal and Bangladesh, claimed a joint research team from West Bengal and Assam.

The  Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii blared a warning to countries around the Pacific Ocean on February 27, minutes after the 8.8 quake hit Chile.

Publishing houses have thrived on the wickedness of oilmen and their mucky trade.

As a child, I often attempted to recite the tongue twister: she sells seashells on the seashore.

Floods, volcanoes and earthquakes are part of the human condition.

The news service Radio Free Europe collected evidence that proves an anti- AIDS campaigner in Uzbekistan was sentenced to seven years after authorities deemed his brochure incompatible with local traditions. Twenty-eight-year-old Maksim Popov, who heads the nonprofit Izis, was arrested in January 2009 and sentenced in September.

Brazil’s Catholic Church is suing Hollywood for using unauthorized images of one of Rio de Janeiro’s famous landmarks: the statue of Christ, the Redeemer. The city’s archdiocese is demanding unspecified damages from Columbia Pictures for showing the statue being destroyed in a worldwide apocalypse in the film 2012.

Wary of social media, US defence department has finally allowed the country’s troops to use networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Department officials say the benefits of using social media outweigh the risks to security.