Fence off Mollar Bheri, orders NGT
Kolkata: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), in an interim order, has directed several measures to be taken for protection of the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW). These include fencing of the Mollar Bheri by
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Dengue, ‘mystery fever’ claim five
KOLKATA: Dengue claimed yet another life while four others in the city and its suburbs died of a 'mystery fever' whose symptoms resembled that of the killer virus since Monday. In at least one instance,
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Dengue menace: Opposition councillors stage protest against mayor
KOLKATA: CPM councillors staged a protest demonstration against Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee on Monday accusing him of failing to take effective measures to tame the dengue outbreak in the city. The
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Kolkata Municipal Corporation conducts dengue awareness campaign
KOLKATA: Kolkata Municipal Corporation mayor Sovan Chatterjee and several other KMC MMIC members and councillors took up a dengue awareness campaign in their respective wards by themselves on Sunday morning
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Dengue: Toll up to 30 in North 24 Paraganas
BARASAT: Three dengue deaths were reported from the city's northern suburbs on Tuesday and Wednesday, taking the dengue-related deaths in North 24 Paraganas to 30 in the past three months. Apart from them,
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4 days, 4 deaths: Dengue run spreads panic in Kamarhati
KOLKATA: Dengue claimed two more lives in the Belgharia-Kamarhati area on the northern fringes of the city since Monday night. While a septuagenarian succumbed at Kamarhati Sagar Dutta Medical College
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Aadhar cards no longer required at dengue detection centres
KOLKATA: Under pressure from state health department, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to exempt patients from submitting photocopies of their Aadhar cards at three dengue detection centres
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Bengal to intensify dengue control programme
KOLKATA: The state urban development & municipal affairs department is monitoring dengue prevention activities on weekly basis in affected urban local bodies across the state, with special emphasis on
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Immersions, Brazil win spike pollution levels
KOLKATA: Even though showers eased Diwali pollution in the city, air and noise quality degraded two days later, thanks to immersion processions and celebrations after Brazil's victory in the Under-17 World
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Kolkata's raw food is loaded with toxic lead: GSI study
KOLKATA: From Tollygunge to Kidderpore and Gariahat to Amherst Street, every time you buy vegetables, fish, chicken or grocery from roadside markets, you are taking home dollops of heavy metal poison in
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Kolkata: Post-Diwali air will be less polluted, courtesy weather
Kolkata: Environment scientists at the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) expect this Kali Puja and Diwali to be the most environment-friendly in recent memory, not due to a sudden behavioural