In photos: Kolkata’s annual festival bringing books and readers together, aka the Book Fair

More than 900 publishers and 20 countries participated in the book fair in 2023.

Sayari Debnath

· Feb 11, 2023 · 03:30 pm

In photos: Winners of the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2022

The awards were instituted to recognise individuals working for the protection of wildlife and natural habitats in India.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 02, 2022 · 07:05 pm

‘No country for the poor’: In photos, the paradox of Shillong’s street food and its hawkers

Social media goes into raptures over posts from the streets from Meghalaya’s capital while the police prevents the poor from conducting their business.

Tarun Bhartiya

· Sep 11, 2022 · 11:30 am

‘A new era’: NASA unveils more images of universe captured by Webb space telescope

The pictures offered a glimpse of the Carina Nebula, one of the bright stellar nurseries in the sky, along with a cluster of galaxies much farther away.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 13, 2022 · 09:50 am

In photos: Heavy rains in Assam wreck railway tracks, bridges

The Dima Hasao district is the worst-hit where at least four persons have died and landslides have been reported in several parts.

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· May 16, 2022 · 06:24 pm

In photos: Reuters images of India’s Covid-19 crisis that won Pulitzer 2022

Photographer Danish Siddiqui was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer along with Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave.

Scroll Staff

· May 10, 2022 · 10:25 am

In Thai manuscripts, the future Buddha is at the centre of some of the most beautiful illustrations

According to canonical scriptures, Ariya Metteyya is the fifth in the lineage of Buddhas of the current aeon and the successor of the 28 Buddhas of the past.

Jana Igunma

· Apr 11, 2022 · 09:30 pm

In Photos: Indians celebrate Holi with verve

A glimpse of how people celebrated the festival in various parts of the country.

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· Mar 18, 2022 · 05:02 pm

Illustrations: A puzzling fragment from an 18th-century Thai meditation manual

The lavishly illustrated manuscript consists of just three complete and two half folios with Pali and Thai text in Khmer and Khom scripts.

Jana Igunma

· Feb 20, 2022 · 07:30 pm

In photos: Nagaland citizens begin 75-km ‘march against AFSPA’ from Dimapur to Kohima

Demands to repeal the Act have been growing after 14 civilians were killed by members of security forces in Mon district on December 4.

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· Jan 10, 2022 · 04:02 pm

In photos: PM Modi, Arvind Kejriwal attend crowded rallies, events in Uttar Pradesh without masks

Previously, these leaders have strongly advocated for Covid-appropriate behaviour.

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· Jan 03, 2022 · 02:49 pm

In photos: Stop killing unarmed civilians, say signboards in Nagaland after Army shoots dead 14

Placards were put up in Mon district demanding that the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act be repealed.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 06, 2021 · 01:38 pm