The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
KOLKATA/PATNA, 30 JAN: The chief minister's proposed visit to the Aila-affected areas in the Sunderbans tomorrow is likely to be another gimmick as the state government has so far failed to acquire required land for setting up embankment. The state has got only 150 acres out of required 4,000 acres …
KOLKATA, 23 JAN: At a time when the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, has assured to provide a cleaner and greener city, her party leaders are backing a wagon-manufacturing factory on Jamir Lane in Ballygunge which is allegedly polluting the environment of the area. Hapless members of Jamir Lane Residents’ …
While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her government sought to downplay the fact that farmers were being forced to commit suicide in the State because of penurious conditions, Leader of the Opposition Surya Kanta Mishra said here on Monday that the Chief Minister keeps maintaining that nothing is wrong whenever …
Calcutta, Jan. 2: Sagar Mela will for the first time get power supply from the mainland this year. Overhead cables were drawn from Lot No. 8 in South 24-Parganas to Sagar Island’s Kachuberia, 3km across the Muriganga river. “We installed five transmission towers between the two river banks to carry …
KOLKATA, 1 JAN: The inefficiency of the state government to implement a land policy in the past seven months has meant it has failed to construct an inch of a planned embankment in South and North 24-Parganas, two districts that were badly affected by Cyclone Alia over two years ago. …
Flouting all norms a railway wagon manufacturing unit is operating at Jamir Lane in the Ballygunge area. The hapless residents who are suffering from respiratory problems to high blood pressure have written to the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, seeking her intervention. Copies of the letter were given to Dr …
KOLKATA, 15 NOV: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has proposed to set up a water treatment plant of 20 million gallon capacity per day at the Garden Reach waterworks to meet the demand of vast areas in South 24-Parganas. This was decided at a high-level meeting held at the KMC …
SONARPUR, 31 OCT: The state government seems to have turned a blind eye to the acute water contamination problem in rural Bengal. The picture is really grim at Dingalpota village in the Ban-Hooghly gram panchayat area in South 24-Parganas. Out of the 10 tube wells, which are the main source …
KOLKATA, 28 SEPT: The state public health engineering department will supply piped water to the arid districts of Purulia and Bankura from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) by undertaking a Rs 2,600 crore project which would be funded by Japan International Coorporation Agency (JICA). State PHE minister Mr Subrata Mukherjee announced …
KOLKATA, 11 JULY: The state public health engineering department has decided to set up a surface drinking water project to provide arsenic-free sweet drinking water to the people of arsenic-affected areas of South 24-Parganas. Recently, the MLAs of seven Assembly constituencies met the public health engineering minister, Mr Subrata Mukherjee, …
KOLKATA, 17 JUNE: One person today died as heavy rain pounded the city and its adjoining districts since last night caused by a deep depression that lay centred 80 km from here. A fishseller died on way to the market at a village in Bishnupur area in South 24-Parganas district …
KOLKATA, 14 FEB: Alarmed at the detection of a fresh polio case in the state in the midst of intensified campaign against the diseases the state government has been compelled to conduct a polio immunisation drive in selected five districts, including Kolkata. Officials said the polio immunisation drive has been …
KOLKATA, 12 JAN: The School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University, in a study found that water level in the Bay of Bengal off the Sunderbans coast has risen four times over the past nine years. The sudden rise is posing a real threat to the Sagar Island among other islands …
A thick film of oil spreads on the waters in the Hooghly after a collision between cargo ships at Nurpur in South 24 Parganas district on Tuesday. NURPUR (SOUTH 24 PARGANAS DISTRICT): A cargo vessel on its way to the Kolkata port rammed another such ship bound for Colombo on …
KOLKATA: Over 500 people engaged in small-scale fishing and related activities held a demonstration here on Friday in protest against the Draft Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification 2010. They alleged that the new draft neither safeguards the interests of the traditional coastal fishermen community nor includes any clause of involving …
KOLKATA, 27, JULY: Ramakrishna Mission has sunk six tubewells in the Aila-affected areas in South 24 Parganas using the Statesman Calamity Relief Fund. Three tubewells have been sunk in Chotomollakhali, Bazarpara, two in Kumirmari and one in Amtali in South 24 Parganas under the Aila cyclone relief project taken up …
KOLKATA, 13 JULY: According to the District Human Development Report on South 24-Parganas, which was released yesterday, 15 per cent of Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forests, may be submerged by the year 2020. However, an uncertainty prevails over the data. An environmentalist who was involved with the project, said …
