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The historical expansion of tea agroforestry in North Bengal, India, over the past 150 years (1876–2023) is a fascinating agricultural and economic transformation journey. The region, particularly the Bengal-Dooars area encompassing Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar districts, has seen significant transformations driven by the cultivation of Camellia sinensis (Tea). During the British colonial period, tea estates (TE) rapidly grew due to favourable conditions.

Spread over 100 sq. km, the liquefaction features identified in central Kerala, suggest moderate-magnitude earthquakes in the past.

Little research has examined the health care experiences of transmasculine people in India, where government initiatives to improve access to transition-related (also called gender-affirmative) care have recently been announced. We draw on data from ‘Our Health Matters’, a mixed-methods community-based participatory research project, to characterize the transition-related care experiences of transmasculine people in India. Peer researchers conducted 40 virtual qualitative interviews in Hindi or Marathi from July to September 2021.

The role of ecology in shaping notions of well-being in indigenous healing traditions is often overlooked in contemporary well-being discourse. This study examines how ecological systems contribute to notions of well-being in two Indic healing traditions– Āyurveda and the Māvilan healing traditions.

A group of Indo-US scientists ( including the present authors) analysed the data of redshift for Galaxy-Quasar pair ( SDSS  , James Webb Telescope) with robust statistical tools and found the existence of periodicity of redshift. It challenges the Big Bang Hypothesis.

This study explores the development of channel cut-off estuarine islands, focusing on the role of tidal surges and channel discharge in shaping morphological changes. Using Taria Island in the Narmada Estuary as a case study, the paper analyzes the riverbank shifting and island growth. By integrating remote sensing data and techniques—multispectral and RADAR, the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), this study brings out the impacts of tidal forces on sediment convergence and stabilization.