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 …
The state pollution control board has pulled up 32 nursing homes in Kolkata, Howrah, North 24-Parganas and South 24-Parganas for flouting pollution norms. Recently, some scientists of the WBPCB visited various nursing homes in and around the city and found that many nursing homes were being run without proper bio-medical …
The Public Health Engineering (PHE) department had decided to undertake a project of setting up high-raised platform tubewells in different areas of South 24-Parganas and North 24-Parganas, that had been ravaged by the cyclone Aila in May this year. The project could not take off, as most of these areas, …
Sea levels rising between 3mm and 5mm a year; tidal surges will intensify say scientists a steady stream of people can be seen making their way to the main jetty in Chotomollakhali island in the Sunderbans these days. On an average, about 200 of them leave for the mainland each …
Cyclone Aila, which struck West Bengal on May 25, left a trail of devastation along the length of the State. It killed 137 people and affected the lives of more than seven lakh. The Sunderbans, spread over the districts of South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas, bore the brunt …
Relief workers from various organisations are having a harrowing time to reach the Aila-hit victims for distribution of relief due to shortage of boats and ferries. Relief workers are reaching Hasnabad and Canning but are unable to go any further to the remote areas of North and South 24-Parganas as …
Cyclone Aila dealt a heavy blow to the state food processing and horticulture department, in terms of the department incurring a loss of Rs 101.62 crore from the damage caused by the storm in the districts of North and South 24-Parganas. The state horticulture department is now reviewing the quantum …
Cyclone Aila hit West Bengal on May 25 with a fury unprecedented in recent history. It took at least 94 lives, seven of them in Kolkata, and affected over 40 lakh people. More than six lakh houses were destroyed completely or damaged partially. The cyclone originated in the Bay of …
Kolkata, June 14 The West Bengal Tourism Department Corporation (WBTDC) has identified 22 waste lands that could be developed into tourist destinations. The move, to have the lands now belonging to the West Bengal Government transferred to WBTDC, is afoot. Giving this information to newspersons here on Saturday, Mr T.V.N. …
Pakhiralay, June 7: A sense of relief swept across the Sunderbans after two weeks of living on the edge when the hungry tide that everyone had feared came without its appetite for destruction. Some embankments were breached, water levels of rivers rose and villages were inundated during the spring tide, …
Ravik Bhattacharjee Posted: Friday , Jun 05, 2009 at 0145 hrs IST Gosaba (South 24 Parganas): In her address to Parliament on Thursday, President Pratibha Patil promised that the Government would provide
Pranesh Sarkar KOLKATA, 2 JUNE: A report filed by a senior bureaucrat on the supply of relief materials in the cyclone-hit South 24-Parganas has virtually demolished the tall claim of state disaster management minister, Mr Mortaza Hossain, in the matter. Mr Hossain had yesterday claimed that relief materials had reached …
KOLKATA, 31 May: Following in the footsteps of Rajiv Gandhi, railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee (photograph right) today insisted that the Central assistance should reach directly to zilla parishads and they should distribute the funds through panchayat samities and gram panchayats. She also criticised the state government for not distributing …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: The city and some districts, devastated by cyclone Aila on Monday, are yet to come to terms with the reality, even as the death toll shot up to 82. Fresh areas in the north were reeling under the impact of the cyclone
May 25: At least 20 people were killed and nearly two lakh left homeless in the south Bengal districts as winds flattened houses and rivers burst their banks. South 24-Parganas was the worst hit, recording 13 deaths. Army and BSF personnel have managed to shift some 80,000 people to safer …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Twenty-three persons were killed when a severe cyclonic storm accompanied by heavy rain brought by Cyclone Aila lashed the city and some districts of West Bengal on Monday. The death toll could be higher: reports from the districts were only coming in. Many people were injured. The …
Kolkata: A deep depression on the Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and slammed into the coastal belt of West Bengal on Monday, killing at least 23 people and rendering over 150,000 homeless. Cyclone Alia, with wind speed of about 100 km per hour, uprooted trees, disrupted …
Social capital has been defined as a set of informal norms that promotes cooperation among the members of the community. Where there is repeated interaction, the members are able to get better information about the activities and intentions of other members in the community than outsiders, thereby promoting collective action …
KOLKATA : The state government has sought a detailed report from the CESC regarding the unprecedented power cuts in the city yesterday. The chief secretary, Mr Asok M Chakrabarti, today said at Writers
Marsh Mongoose Herpestes palustris is the only extant endemic mammal of the East Kolkata wetlands, which has been declared a RAMSAR site in 2002. Since its first description by the scientists of the Zoological Survey of India, the population of this species has dwindled to an alarming state due to …
