Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Salboni Apartment Owner’s Association Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 15/05/2025. The matter related to restoration of the Salboni Jheel, Kolkata, West Bengal. The NGT directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board to place …
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 of young boys and men in the Terai region. De-agrarianisation in combination with the revived patriarchal “good woman” ideology explains the …
KOLKATA: Warm winds singed the city on Monday and pushed the mercury up to 40.6°C — the highest maximum temperature of the season so far. It was also the highest recorded in June since at least 2005 and was 7°C above the normal mark. A moderate heat wave is sweeping …
New Town: A crucial environment impact assessment has been commissioned for a road and a flyover that are to be built through the East Calcutta Wetlands, a 12,500-hectare span of water bodies regarded as the city's kidneys. The Thane-headquartered Ultra-Tech Environmental Consultancy & Laboratory has been given four months to …
KOLKATA: In 2017, more than 1,000 idols were immersed in the city ghats. But the remains of Durga idols along these ghats have caused heartache to environment activists. Further, the long queues for the immersion process also increase the risks of an untoward incident. To address these issues, the Kolkata …
Non-BJP-ruled States unenthusiastic abouthealth insurance plan The country's most ambitious health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat may not find takers in West Bengal, Punjab, Odisha and Delhi. Interestingly, all the four are non-BJP-ruled States. Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamta Banerjee had sent top officials from the State’s Health Department for …
KOLKATA: The city is in the grip of severe air pollution that remains largely unassessed and so is its health impact. In 2017-18, the city’s pollution levels rose faster than ever before because of an exponential growth in the number of vehicles, construction activities and biomass burning. A recent report …
State power secretary Sunil Gupta and chairman cum managing director Santanu Basu accompanied the minister at the inauguration. Solar tree is an installation akin to a tree with solar panels fixed at various points such that the panels receive maximum sunshine and generate electricity, which, in turn, is passed on …
Calcutta: The owner of any premises that fails to comply with municipal recommendations on mosquito eradication can be fined up to Rs 1 lakh under a new rule that takes effect on Friday, replacing the provision that required civic officials to move court to impose a maximum penalty of Rs …
The report summarises water quality of the river during four rounds of biological testing in the Uttarakhand stretch, and reveals that at the Haridwar barrage biological water quality improves from slight pollution to clean. Biological monitoring of the Ganga has shown that two major tributaries, Pandu and Varuna, are increasing …
Calcutta: The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) has started sending notices to houses where accumulation of water has been reported by field workers, the early alertness coming from lessons learnt during previous outbreaks of dengue. A resident of Kasba was taken aback by a notice pasted outside his apartment with a …
Calcutta: Environment experts in the city have criticised the draft "national clean air plan" (NCAP), recently introduced by the environment ministry to combat air pollution as being "too Delhi-centric". The draft was on the Union ministry's site till May 17 and comments were invited from the general public. The rate …
Kolkata: The Clean Air Collective network comprising citizens’ groups, civil society organizations and farmers’ bodies have labelled the draft National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) a paper tiger without time-bound targets. On Thursday, the collective sent recommendations to the ministry of environment forests & climate change, including introduction of sectoral emission …
Gradual change in temperature and rainfall patterns in Darjeeling hills is beginning to affect production of the famous Darjeeling tea. The maximum temperature in Kurseong has risen by 0.51 degree over the last 20 years while total annual rainfall dropped by 56 mm and relative humidity by 16.07 %, leading …
The West Bengal Pollution Control Board has set up 75 air quality monitoring stations in the state to check air quality level and combat pollution, a top official said today. WBPCB Chairman Kalyan Rudra said that of the 75 air quality monitoring stations, 17 alone were located in Kolkata where …
Calcutta: The city had the highest rate of rise in the level of PM 2.5, an ultra-fine toxic pollutant, among the metros between 2014 and 2016, according to a World Health Organisation report. The level is almost twice that of the national permissible limit and eight times the WHO prescribed …
Experts say climate change, unusual Western Disturbance main reasons The violent thunderstorm on Sunday, which claimed as many as 80 lives in five states and caused severe damage to property and agriculture, seems to have again caught off-guard the authorities concerned with its intensity almost like the May 2 event. …
Calcutta: The Atreyi, the Teesta and three other north Bengal rivers have been severely affected by human encroachments and waste dumping, affecting marine life and livelihoods of local fishermen, an activist has said citing a study. Tuhin Suvro Mondal was speaking at a recent convention in Calcutta where 10 other …
KOLKATA: Pollution monitoring and control has always been a challenge in India, and one of the key loopholes has been a weak and lax monitoring and compliance enforcement mechanism. In 2017, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) had published a set of broad guidelines for installing and operating continuous emission …
KOLKATA: A report by the World Health Organization (WHO) has finally confirmed that Kolkata is the second-most polluted metropolis in the country, next only to Delhi. The study revealed another alarming trend: Kolkata’s air quality is declining faster than Delhi’s. The latest WHO database of more than 4,000 cities across …
Nabanna: The state government is working on ways to regulate the entry of non-BS IV vehicles into Howrah and Calcutta after being pulled up by the National Green Tribunal for its failure to do so. The transport department has called a meeting on Thursday with the director general of police, …
