Winter air too toxic to breathe: Study
Calcutta: Calcutta's air is unbreathable in the current season, figures thrown up by the measuring stations of the state pollution control board reveal. Metro has accessed the pollution data generated
Jayanta Basu
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Green tussle on housing
Environment ministry bats for real estate exemption Calcutta: The Union environment ministry is planning to move the Supreme Court against a recent National Green Tribunal verdict that quashed its notification
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UN finds Paris pact gaps
Calcutta: A recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme has suggested that the Paris Agreement would fail to restrict the global temperature rise within 2°C, as agreed at the Paris climate
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Bengal pollutants defy orders openly
At least a dozen pollutant industries in Bengal have been ignoring closure orders from the Central Pollution Control Board, The Telegraph has found while following up on the apex agency's reprimand to
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Nowhere to hide in city of poison air
Take a deep breath. Fringes of Calcutta that you thought had cleaner air than the city's choked heart are even more polluted than the core, reveals a recently published document of the West Bengal Pollution
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Rooftop lag in solar power flop
- India fails to reach even half of target, blame on Centre's policies Faulty policies prevented India from achieving even half its solar energy target during the last fiscal year, experts say, despite
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Tribunal cracks green whip on Puri
The eastern zonal bench of the National Green Tribunal today passed several strictures to improve the environment of Puri. The strictures include imposing a stay on the ongoing construction at a railway
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Party or walk in the park, a breath of poison
Breathing is injurious to health: this should be the statutory warning to party animals out to claim the night. And morning walkers, do not venture out too early, for Calcutta is experiencing unprecedented
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Target: tiniest pollutant
The eastern bench of the National Green Tribunal on Thursday directed the state pollution control board to "continuously measure PM 2.5", the tiniest and most potent air pollutant, in Calcutta and Howrah.
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Bengal dubious first in pollution deaths
More people died in Bengal from acute respiratory infection than in any other state every single year from 2009 to 2014, according to a Union government report. Experts described the trend as a revelation,