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 …
KOLKATA: A 19-year-old New Town girl and a 35-year-old man from Kadihati died of dengue at the Beliaghata ID Hospital and the Calcutta Medical College Hospital, respectively, in the past two days. Riya Sarkar, a resident of New Town's Pramod Nagar, was first taken to the Beliaghata hospital on November …
KOLKATA: Dengue onslaught is not sparing posh localities in the city. A 62-year-old Dengue positive woman, a resident of Ballygunge Circular Road died late on Wednesday. While the state was filing a report on Dengue in the Calcutta High Court on Thursday, the grieving family of Sampat Devi Baid was …
KOLKATA: Dengue claimed yet another life while four others in the city and its suburbs died of a 'mystery fever' whose symptoms resembled that of the killer virus since Monday. In at least one instance, the death certificate states the cause was 'fever of unknown origin with NS1-reactive', a phrase …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of E. R. Kumar & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/11/2017 regarding the state of urban homeless in the state of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The Apex Court finds no concrete implementation of the National …
KOLKATA: CPM councillors staged a protest demonstration against Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee on Monday accusing him of failing to take effective measures to tame the dengue outbreak in the city. The protest came a day after Chatterjee and several TMC councillors conducted a drive to spray bleaching powder and larvacide …
KOLKATA: Kolkata Municipal Corporation mayor Sovan Chatterjee and several other KMC MMIC members and councillors took up a dengue awareness campaign in their respective wards by themselves on Sunday morning by spreading bleaching powder and spraying larvaecide. Mayor Sovan Chatterjee was seen spreading bleaching powder at Behala. "Comparing statistics of …
BARASAT: Three dengue deaths were reported from the city's northern suburbs on Tuesday and Wednesday, taking the dengue-related deaths in North 24 Paraganas to 30 in the past three months. Apart from them, three Bongaon residents died of a "mysterious fever". Barasat trader Dulal Modak, 40, died in a private …
KOLKATA: Dengue claimed two more lives in the Belgharia-Kamarhati area on the northern fringes of the city since Monday night. While a septuagenarian succumbed at Kamarhati Sagar Dutta Medical College on Tuesday morning, a 40-year-old homemaker from Deganga died of dengue on Monday evening, taking the total death toll in …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Subhas Datta Vs Visva Bharati University & Others dated 01/11/2017 regarding the pollution caused during the Poush Mela, 2015 held in the Visva Bharati University in the month of December. National Green Tribunal (Eastern Bench) directs …
Mamata Banerjee on dengue outbreak: There is no need to panic. Some people are trying to create a panic with a vested interest. Some corporate houses, which had opposed our decision to set up a health commission, are passing wrong information. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that some …
KOLKATA: Under pressure from state health department, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to exempt patients from submitting photocopies of their Aadhar cards at three dengue detection centres in north Kolkata. Instead any address proof documents such as ration cards, utility bills, voter cards, driving licenses or even ID proof …
KOLKATA: The state urban development & municipal affairs department is monitoring dengue prevention activities on weekly basis in affected urban local bodies across the state, with special emphasis on North 24 Parganas. Central teams of entomologist, public health experts and doctors are visiting these ULBs regularly along with conservancy teams …
Cooch Behar: A solar plant that can generate 10 kilowatts of power was commissioned at the Sadar Government High School here on Wednesday. This is the first time that such a facility has been installed at an educational institution in the district. The plant will cut down power bills of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Subhas Datta Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 27/10/2017 regarding arsenic contaminated areas in West Bengal. Subhas Datta the Applicant has filed an affidavit highlighting the specific arsenic contaminated areas for conducting survey on …
Dey said the state government is not trying to suppress any information regarding dengue cases or deaths. Though dengue is mostly a city-centric, this year, such cases were from suburban areas and districts, he said. Since January this year, 18,238 cases of dengue have been reported from different parts of …
Kolkata civic body rubbishes reports on dengue control failure Drawing flak for its handling of the dengue menace in the city, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Monday maintained it has been effectively able to control the spread and alleged a "deliberate attempt" at misinformation about its tackling of the disease …
KOLKATA: Even though showers eased Diwali pollution in the city, air and noise quality degraded two days later, thanks to immersion processions and celebrations after Brazil's victory in the Under-17 World Cup. On Sunday night, crackers were burst indiscriminately in absence of any surveillance either by pollution control board or …
The DVC has been incurring losses due to the 1,200-MW Raghunathpur power plant, the estimated financial bleeding at Rs 70 crore per month. The Damodar Valley Corporation Ltd might “drop” plans to transfer its Raghunathpur thermal power plant to a joint venture with NLC India Ltd, owing to a delay …
KOLKATA: From Tollygunge to Kidderpore and Gariahat to Amherst Street, every time you buy vegetables, fish, chicken or grocery from roadside markets, you are taking home dollops of heavy metal poison in the form of lead. A study — released by the Geological Survey of India on Sunday — highlights …
Kolkata: Environment scientists at the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) expect this Kali Puja and Diwali to be the most environment-friendly in recent memory, not due to a sudden behavioural change of revellers but because of meteorological conditions. "The early Kali Puja and Diwali this year will be a …
