This living giant, a banyan tree or Ficus Benghalensis, isn't just any botanical marvel. It's a colossal green beast that ...

From Lal Qila to the Taj Mahal, India shelters many historic monuments. The giant banyan tree in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanical Garden at Shibpur of Howrah city in Kolkata.

Dozens of historic buildings were destroyed, and the giant Banyan tree in the town centre was blackened and burned. To the delight of many, green leaves have started sprouting from the burned tree ...

It doubles as a roundabout that is home to a giant, green-and-white monument of a banyan tree, commemorating an even larger tree that once stood at its centre. "I was told that there used to be a ...