Indian tribals are a heterogeneous group; most of them remain at the lowest stratum of the society due to various factors like geographical and cultural isolation, low levels of literacy, primitive occupations, and extreme levels of poverty. The present paper attempts to study the health problems of the tribal women in Godam Line Village of Phansidewa Block of Darjeeling District in West Bengal...

Amemboa mahananda sp. nov. and Amemboa bifurcata sp. nov. are described from Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Darjeeling district and from Kalikhola, in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, and compared with all allied species. A species checklist of the genus Amemboa Esaki, 1925  and Amemboides Polhemus & Andersen, 1984 from India and their distribution in India and elsewhere is provide...

The tea plantation sector has been considered to be a major source of livelihood and employment for the population of the regional economies. Structural changes in this sector have led to the emergence of labour categories such as permanent estate workers, casual estate workers and self employed small tea growers. Several studies have attempted to understand the human development status of the ...

Towards .the end of 1892, a daughter of the then Civil Surgeon contracted kala-azar and died after many months of suffering in Darjeeling. In February, 1893, the Forest Officer developed the disease and died a few months later in Calcutta. Towards the end of that year the District Superintendent of Police and his little boy aged seven years were attacked, and they both died the following year i...

cases do not do well, if there has been much lung destruction. They find considerable difficulty in breathing, and complain of discomfort aud a sense of uneasiness. From the beginning of June till the middle of October there are heavy rains with mist and absolute saturation of the air with moisture. There is not much sunshine and exercise out of doors is curtailed. To keep out the mist and damp...

Intraspecific genetic variation in natural populations governs their potential to overcome challenging ecological and environmental conditions. In addition, knowledge of this variation is critical for the conservation and management of endangered plant taxa. Found in the Himalayas, Podophyllum hexandrum is an endangered high-elevation plant species that has great medicinal importance. Here we r...

642 a 2010 Lees, D. C., Rougerie, R., Zeller-Lukashort, C. & Kristensen, N. P. (2010). DNA minibarcodes in taxonomic assignment: a morphologically unique new homoneurous moth clade from the Indian Himalayas described in Micropterix (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae). — Zoologica Scripta, 39, 642–661. The first micropterigid moths recorded from the Himalayas, Micropterix cornuella sp. n. and Micropt...