Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
NEW DELHI, March 14 – It’s official. The ambitious national railway projects in North-east are likely to suffer further delays with Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, ruing a slash in budgetary support, confirmed that the national projects may get delayed for want of adequate funding. Presenting his maiden Budget on Wednesday, …
Authorities of the Buxa Tiger Reserve are formulating plans for a major overhaul of the tourist facilities at the reserve. “We are preparing our eco-tourism plans in accordance with the guidelines given by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. Tourist lodges will be set up at seven spots in …
Jalpaiguri, Jan. 16: The Centre has released nearly Rs 13 crore for the construction of spurs on the Teesta a few kilometres from here, where the river changed its course last monsoon and threatened to flood Jalpaiguri town. River expert Kalyan Rudra has termed the measure temporary and suggested that …
Gajoldoba (Jalpaiguri), Jan. 8: Bickering gave way to bonhomie today when water was released for the first time from the Teesta Barrage to farmlands along the left bank. Irrigation minister Manas Bhunia was showered with praise by his cabinet colleague, Trinamul Congress’s Gautam Deb, and the CPM MP from Jalpaiguri, …
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 crops. Today, around 200 people gathered under the banner of the Congress’ farmers’ wing and demanded that a …
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 residents also said while the municipality was concerned about cleaning up the Karala, where …
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 of the river. From yesterday, the irrigation department has been releasing water from an aqueduct of the …
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 on November 28. The finding was mentioned in a 26-page report sent by the Calcutta-based institute to the assistant …
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 earthquake. The experts laid stress on immediate rectification of such faults in case there are …
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 said. Around 10 million tonnes of silt is deposited on the …
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 senior functionaries of the Indian Tea Board that the Rs 23 crore 92 lakh project happens to be …
Jalpaiguri, Nov. 29: Fish markets in and around Jalpaiguri experienced a sharp decline in sales today even though prices were slashed by 50 per cent. The consumers kept away from the shops as they were panicked by the death of thousands of fish in the Karala yesterday because of poisoning. …
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 face of raids by officials to seize dead fish in …
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. “The reports of the deaths of large numbers of fish in the Karola river first came …
Jalpaiguri, Oct. 12: The governments of India and Bhutan will jointly prepare a digital map of the rivers that originate in the neighbouring country and flow through north Bengal to track their course, primarily to check floods and erosion in the region. Chairperson of the North Bengal Flood Commission, Narayan …
New Delhi, Oct.12: The Centre today released Rs 120 crore for earthquake-ravaged north Bengal, within 12 hours of Mamata Banerjee requesting a Union home ministry team for Rs 500 crore. The money released is the remaining portion of the Centre’s share in the Rs 320 crore earmarked for Bengal under …
NEW DELHI, 12 OCT: The Centre has released Rs 120 crore to West Bengal for relief and rehabilitation of the victims of last month's devastating earthquake. Following a request from the state, the government approved Rs 120.02 crore for relief and rehabilitation of quake-affected people, a home ministry official said. …
Kolkata: Nine days before the temblor struck Sikkim and Bengal on Sunday, Dipak Ghosh, emeritus UGC fellow¸ had an uncanny feeling. The solid-state nuclear track detector he had embedded 70cm underground beside the Faculty Club at Jadavpur University recorded abnormal fluctuations in radon gas emission from below. Was this a …
Sunday's earthquake, which left a trail of destruction in Sikkim, has caused massive damage to some structures at two of the five project sites of the 1,200-megawatt hydro-power project in the upper reaches of the Teesta river. It claimed the lives of 16 workers and officials and caused injuries to …
The West Bengal government has asked the Army to assist civil authorities, if needed, in relief and rescue work in Darjeeling and some other North Bengal districts affected by the massive quake that hit the region on Sunday evening. Darjeeling remained cut off from the rest of the country as …
