Meanwhile, lying anonymously, overgrown and unloved, out on the hot plains of the Chota Nagpur Plateau in Jharkhand is arguably the world’s largest collection of megaliths spread over 53 known ...

Chota Nagpur plateau had always been a curious exception. Since pretty much nobody in that era was writing on the fauna of undivided Bihar, and none from a conservation point of view, Ara was a ...

In ‘Islands against Civilisation’, Saagar Tewari offers a history of late-colonial discussions around the future of tribal ...

Rugda, a wild mushroom from Jharkhand’s forests, is a prized monsoon delicacy among tribal communities. Rich in nutrition and ...

Chota Nagpur plateau, part of the vast Deccan plateau, is Jharkhand's most prominent physical feature, as also its most intriguing. Majorly spread across the districts of Hazaribagh and Ranchi ...

India’s first ‘Birdwoman’, a title none less than the iconic Salim Ali bestowed upon her for scientifically studying birds of the Chota Nagpur plateau, Jharkhand. Her story was lost to us ...

This is the first endemic gecko to be found from the Chota Nagpur plateau. The new and genetically distinct species - Hemidactylus paucifasciatus is different from other species found in the ...

Purulia, located in the eastern part of the Chota Nagpur plateau in West Bengal, is better known as the site of a mysterious arms drop. Early on the morning of December 18, 1995, a posse of men (five ...

Purulia at the edge of Chota Nagpur plateau recorded a searing 44.3 degrees Celsius, the highest maximum temperature on Thursday in West Bengal, as its neighbouring districts of Bankura ...