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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Get ready for pollution spike, Kolkata may get as bad as Delhi
KOLKATA: If Delhi is the worst polluted city in India on Diwali night, Kolkata is not far behind. The pollution level in Kolkata, which remains within the limit most of the time of the year, spikes during
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Salt Lake gets medical camps to fight dengue
KOLKATA: After reviewing the vector-control measures in its MMiC meeting, the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation is setting up medical camps in the most-affected wards. Since thousands are converging at
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Killer dengue deadlier this year; symptoms masked, warn doctors
KOLKATA: The dengue serotype that is stalking the city this time around is deadlier than usual. The health department has said that the strains this time are type two (Den 2) and four (Den 4), perhaps
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Fresh outbreak of dengue in south
KOLKATA: There is a fresh outbreak of dengue in parts of Garfa and Jadavpur with at least two deaths being reported from the areas in last three days. Most of the cases, in which patients had to be admitted
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Loudspeakers without sound limiters banned by green bench
KOLKATA: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern Zone Bench, on Tuesday , imposed a total ban on the use of loudspeakers without sound limiters.Civic bodies and panchayats have been ordered to stop
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Now, RAF team created to combat dengue, malaria
KOLKATA: The twin dengue deaths in Kasba last week has shaken the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) authorities into action. The KMC health department has created a Rapid Action Force (RAF) team for
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Dengue knocks on Salt Lake doors
Kolkata: The dengue sting has reached the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation area that recorded its first death this year at Kestopur's Prafulla Kanan on Wednesday. Barely 5km from Madhugarh in South Dum
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Kolkata greenery falls prey to careless hacking before Puja
KOLKATA: An unholy nexus of shop owners, Puja organisers, cable operators, outdoor advertising agencies has wreaked havoc with the greenery in south Kolkata. For the past couple of weeks, at least 70 trees
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PG course on solar energy in Kolkata
KOLKATA: Come October and a post-graduate course in solar energy will be launched here, as Amity University and the NB Institute for Rural Development (NBIRT) signed an MoU on Wednesday. "The one-year
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Decibel count around Kolkata hospitals way above permissible limits
KOLKATA: The city that had been the first to combat sound pollution two decades ago, has emerged as the country's noise capital with silence zones falling prey to the deafening cacophony of honking.