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In the plains of the Chota Nagpur Plateau in Jharkhand lie scattered ancient megaliths that tell stories of the passage of time. June 15, 2025 e-Paper. LOGIN Account.
I was born and raised in Chota Nagpur and grew up spending extensive time in the forests of this region since my father was an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer. Ever since I had started ...
THE Birhors dwell in the jungles which fringe the eastern margin of the great central 2000 ft. plateau of Chota Nagpur, in the Province of Bihar and Orissa. Like so many other primitive ...
Situated in the Purulia district of West Bengal, this hill station is a part of the Chota Nagpur Plateau, known for its exquisite beauty. It is believed that Lord Rama came here during his exile.
Netarhat lies in Jharkhand, about a three-hour drive from the state capital, Ranchi. Called the “queen of Chota Nagpur plateau”, it is 1,071m above sea level, ...
A new species of the small burrowing frog has been discovered from the Chota Nagpur plateau in Jharkhand. Scientists have named it Magadha Burrowing Frog, or Sphaerotheca magadha after the ancient ...
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 ...
The most affected regions would be the Chota Nagpur Plateau, northeastern India, and Bangladesh, according to the study published by the US journal Science Advances. "Our findings have significant ...
BHUBANESWAR: A group of researchers has discovered a new species of large-bodied tuberculate gecko, commonly known as termite hill gecko, in north Odisha. This ...
The species, also known as the Sal forest tortoise, is naturally found in the humid forests and lowland regions of Southeast Asia, with its habitat extending from India all the way down to Malaysia.
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 ...
Ghatal is situated in the lower reaches of the Chota Nagpur plateau’s catchment for the Shilai River, 66 km west of Kolkata, West Bengal. Administratively, ...