A study of three villages in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, reveals that there is an alarming decline in female agricultural wage labour, resulting in de-feminisation, devastating poverty and outmigration
The mainstream paradigm of understanding grass-root environmentalism in India as “environmentalism of the poor” might be challenged by an alternative prototype forest movement in the Bengal Dooars prior
Farmers who had given land for a factory of the West Bengal Pharmaceutical and Phytochemical Development Corporation nearly two decades ago demanded that the utilised plot be given to them for growing
Jalpaiguri, Jan. 3: Residents of Panga have stopped the entry of garbage trucks to a dump yard since yesterday after an agreement that allowed the civic body to use the place expired on December 31. The
Jalpaiguri, Jan. 1: The irrigation department is reviving the Karala Action Plan that was drawn up by North Bengal University in 2000 with revised estimates to improve the flow and control the pollution
Jalpaiguri, Dec. 27: The Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute has confirmed that presence of abnormally high rate of endosulfan in the Karala had killed thousands of fish belonging to 33 species
Jalpaiguri, Dec. 26: An IIT Madras team of experts has pointed out a series of lapses in various quarters that multiplied the extent of damage to buildings, roads and monasteries in Sikkim during the September
A high amount of silt deposit on the bed of the Teesta combined with the hydel power projects upstream in Sikkim and Bengal has reduced the flow and the volume of water in the river, an expert report has
SILIGURI, 8 DEC: The north Bengal development minister, Mr Gautam Deb, today inaugurated the North Bengal Tea park near New Jalpaiguri railway station. It has been learnt from the SJDA officials and
Reports of a large number of fish dying in a river in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district have raised concerns about the toxicity of the water, particularly as it joins the Teesta river further downstream.
Jalpaiguri, Nov. 29: The mass mortality of fish in the Karala river has blown the lid off a toxic secret: poison is used to kill some of the catch that makes its way to several homes in Bengal. In the
