Around 1,480 hectares of land along the Ganga-Padma in Murshidabad district of West Bengal have been eroded during the last 15 years, according to Government of West Bengal, said Tudu. The erosion was observed in Farakka, Samsergunj, Suti-I & II, Raghunathgunj-II, Lalgola, Bhawangola-II, Raninagar-II, Jalangi blocks and Dhuliyan municipality of …
- Family members & loyalists of RSP leaders among beneficiaries Naoda: Several undeserving candidates have allegedly been allotted money in a Murshidabad pocket under a central housing scheme for below-poverty-line people. Many residents of Gangadhari village in Naoda have been enlisted as beneficiaries of the Indira Awaas Yojana even though …
New Delhi:NTPC on Tuesday signed a long-term agreement to supply 250 mw to Bangladesh Power Development Board, making it the first Indian generation utility to ink a deal for exporting electricity to aneighbouring country. NTPC entered into the deal through its wholly-owned trading arm NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd. The …
KOLKATA, 13 FEB: The state public health engineering (PHE) department has invited experts from across the world to tour the four districts affected by arsenic seeking suggestions for the use of modern technology to tackle the problem. Apart from visiting the four districts ~ North 24-Parganas, Nadia, Murshidabad and South …
KOLKATA, 10 JAN: The state government's decision to do away with middlemen for selling paddy to the rice mills has, ironically enough, hit the farmers hard, many of whom can't sell their produce, the mills being far away from their villages, according to information reaching the Trinamul leadership. The “hurry” …
Kandi (Murshidabad), Jan. 4: Residents of a Murshidabad village have given up their land to build a road that will reduce the distance to the nearest place where schools, government offices and banks are located, the endeavour inspired by a similar effort in a neighbouring pocket. Ninety villagers of Tentulia …
Yet another farmer having committed suicide now in Burdwan district, the rice bowl of West Bengal, taking the toll to nine in the last two months. Predictably, there are two versions of this tragedy. The bereaved family insists that Amiya Saha (of Rajpur village in Memari) killed himself yesterday after …
KOLKATA, 22 DEC: The city today experienced the second coldest day in the past 20 years with the mercury dipping to 10.8 degree Celsius. In the past 20 years, the minimum temperatures had dipped below 11 degrees Celsius only twice with 10.5 degrees Celsius on 30 December 1991 and 10.8 …
RATANPUR (Murshidabad), 17 NOV: Villagers here have embarked on a collective effort for constructing a clay road which would serve as a short-cut and curtail around 30 km road distance to reach their district headquarters of Behrampore. As the local gram panchayat preferred to sit idle, the residents of Ratanpur …
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights today issued a notice to West Bengal Government on the shocking incident in Lalbag sub-divisional hospital where a woman was swabbed with acid resulting in the death of her newborn. Sikha Bibi was admitted to the hospital in Murshidabad for a delivery …
Bird flu has resurfaced in West Bengal with poultry samples from five gram panchayats of Tehatta I block in Nadia district testing positive for H5N1 (avian influenza) at the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) in Bhopal. Sixty teams, comprising 420 people, from the animal resource development department and district …
New Delhi: ‘Dil hai Hindustani’ is a phrase that best sums up Association for India’s Development’s vast network of workers and volunteers for whom all roads lead to India. The much-needed funds are raised abroad but channeled to a staggering sweep of projects within the country. From helping organic farmers …
Seventeen people have died and over nine lakh people have been affected in the nearly fortnight-long spell of rains in West Bengal. Ten districts have been affected by heavy floods, Disaster Management Minister Javed Khan has said in the Assembly. He said that 25,750 mud houses have been damaged or …
BEHRAMPORE, 16 JUNE: The adage that necessity is the mother of invention is apt for Kajisha, a gram panchayat at Beldanga in Murshidabad. The gram panchayat, with a cluster of villagers, has turned out to be a rare bit of rural Bengal by setting a precedence: to rope in a …
North 24-Parganas has emerged as the second most densely populated district in the country with a population of 1,00,82,852 followed by Thane in Maharashtra, according to the 2011 Census report. The statistical figures regarding population, literacy rates, sex ratio in West Bengal ~ released at Writers' Buildings today by the …
Kolkata, 1 March: India has moved closer to eradication of polio, recording only 42 cases in 2010 compared to 741 in the previous year. Till February this year, only a single case has been reported from Howrah, according to the India National Polioplus Committee of Rotary International. A special polio …
This year, the first type 1 polio case has been reported in an 18-month-old girl in Howrah district of West Bengal. According to Union Health Ministry officials, the girl had not received any dose of the oral polio vaccine (OPV) before the onset of paralysis on January 13. Dr Hamid …
BEHRAMPORE, 6 FEB: Hundreds of community tube-wells that serve as a source of drinking water are lying defunct for years leading to a drinking water crisis in the drought-hit areas of Murshidabad where the alternative water points also run dry during summer months. A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been …
Siliguri, Feb. 2: The Kulik bird sanctuary and the Farakka barrage figure in a list of 135 wetlands drawn up by the Bombay Natural History Society for their protection under an international treaty. The BNHS has said in a study that all the 135 waterbodies should be declared Ramsar sites …
The state government would distribute 70,000 metric tons of potato, lying in cold storages in five districts, free of cost for mid-day meal and ICDS, finance minister Mr Asim Dasgupta announced today, admitting that the state exchequer had to drain off Rs 60 crore to
