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
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
Shopkeepers Say They Are Not Aware Of Any Ban; Health Secretary Blames Manpower Crunch For Enforcement Failure Manufacture, storage, and sale of chewing tobacco is banned in the state. But, this might
KOLKATA: The Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) to close down three units in Ganganagar in North 24-Parganas that were
Kolkata's Urban Sprawl Quadrupled, Vegetation Nosedived In Just 30 Years The city has lost over a quarter of its green cover between 1980 and 2010, more than any metro in the country. During this period,
Takes Cognizance Of TOI Reports On Sunderbans The National Green Tribunal (NGT)'s Eastern Zone Bench has taken suo motu cognizance of reports on the degradation of the Sunderbans that appeared in The
The Sunderbans tiger population may have reached its carrying capacity . The scientists of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), who are compiling data as part of the all-India tiger census, have revealed
The forest department on Tuesday unveiled a scientifically-improved cage to trap tigers in the Sunderbans and leopards in north Bengal. The new cages are much lighter than those being used now and the
Environment activist Subhas Datta, on the basis of whose petition the Supreme Court ordered the setting up of a Green Bench at the Calcutta high court on April 16, 1996, is an unhappy man. Over the last
A silent yet significant evolution has taken place in the Sunderbans in last two decades. Hitherto known to be a forest of Hental (Phoenix Paludosa) and Kalo Baine (Avicennia Alba), it has become a forest
Alipore Cop Detected With Virus A 51-year-old from Alipore has been detected with Japanese Encephalitis (JE). Tests done at the School of Tropical Medicine (STM) have found the virus in the blood samples
Kolkata: Senior foresters from Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh, in a joint meeting held almost after a decade on Wednesday, pledged to work together to allow free passage to the elephants that