My first culinary encounter with sembal dodde – which is what the buds of Bombax ceiba, or silk cotton tree, are called in Khadi Boli spoken in Saharanpur – was one of wonder. It is not so ...

The second edition of the Simolu festival, celebrating the breath-taking beauty of the Bombax ceiba flowers, kicked off on February 15 in Assam's Nagaon district. The two-day-long festival ...

Guwahati: A 70-year-old man was killed by an elephant at Radhala village in the Kaliabor area of Nagaon district on Saturday morning.

Semal, the Bombax ceiba, flowers once a year at spring. It feels like a heritage tree—this is an Indian species which is a source of both beauty and value. In the manner of the best kind of ...