State to form committee to check pollution
KOLKATA, 3 AUG: A 13-member committee, tasked with looking at the environmental pollution caused by sponge iron units, is going to be set up by the state environment minister, Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar.
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Gastro outbreak claims 10 in a week
Durgapur, Oct. 12: At least 10 people, including five children, have died of diarrhoea at Kulti near Asansol over the past week. Over 2,500 have been afflicted with the disease. Nearly 300 patients have been admitted to the Asansol Subdivisional Hospital and the two hospitals of Eastern Coalfields Ltd and nursing homes in Asansol and Kulti, about 260km from Calcutta.