Author
Prasanta Paul
Prasanta Paul served Deccan Herald as the Chief of Bureau, Calcutta for nearly two decades before switching to work with various TV channels such as Al-Jazeera, CNN, German TV and CBS. He also headed the Eastern Bureau of Parliamentarian magazine. Mr. Paul who accompanied former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his overseas tour of Singapore and other Asian countries, travelled extensively to Bhutan, Sikkim and Darjeeling besides other Northeastern states. He briefly headed the Mizoram Bureau of the United News of India (UNI).
PLA, NAH tribals allege, has been progressively seizing substantial portions of their ancestral grazing, hunting, agricultural lands over the past six years.
Tribal Alarm Over Chinese Encroachment on Sacred Ancestral Lands in Arunachal
Seven Sisters|5 min read
Suvendu Adhikari promised to act without delay. He kept that promise. Police machinery roared into action. 17 arrests made in less than 24 hours.
Suvendu’s Masterstroke Dents CPIM & TMC’s Minority Fortress
National|3 min read
The firmament was so violent and ruthless that the city and its neighbourhood hadn't witnessed such fury in a very long time.
377 Lightning Strikes Kolkata Was Witness To in 2 Hours!
National|2 min read
The Reserve Bank of India's latest deposit scheme targets overseas Indians as a source of dollar inflows — but the strategy comes with strings attached.
India Courts Its Diaspora to Defend the Rupee
Business|3 min read
The specimen, designated NWA 12593, is a 311-gram olivine-phyric basalt, representing one of only 31 officially classified lunar basaltic meteorites on Earth.
3.5-billion-Year-Old Rock Rewrites Lunar History
Science and Space|3 min read
A sprawling café rises on razed mangroves,encroaches the Irrigation Department land on the dried Malta riverbed in the ecologically fragile Sunderbans Islands.
Sip & Destroy: How a Riverside Café Has Swallowed Sunderbans' Soul
Environment|5 min read
A joint team from Sikkim's Tourism and Forest Departments came back with an extraordinary footage that has quietly redrawn Sikkim's wildlife map.
Sikkim Team in Rapture as Elusive Mishmi Takin Reappears
Seven Sisters|4 min read
Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta's first full-year budget for Bengal is nothing short of audacious. The Vision Is Right. The Timing Is Perfect.
‘Khul Ja Sim Sim’: Bengal FM Uncorks Pandora’s Box in Maiden Budget
National|4 min read
After a tense three-hour drama-cum-impasse, BGB realised the mood of the BSF and the local villagers and managed to disperse the armed Bangladeshis back home.
Underwater Sensors to Guard Rivers Near Chicken's Neck to Curb Illegal Infiltration
National|3 min read
People of all ages have participated in the Yoga to mark the International Yoga Diwas
Photo Feature On The International Yoga Diwas
National|1 min read
TCS has been greeted with a massive international reputational damage following the US Supreme Court’s rejection of its appeal; a decisively poor picture of TCS
Bloodbath In Indian IT Stocks Hurting TCS More Than Ever
Technology|4 min read
Arrival of PNS Hangor in Karachi posits a broader maritime strategic challenge within the India-China-Pakistan triangular dynamics.
Pakistan's Naval Ambition Reaches the Bay of Bengal
International|5 min read
