Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: T N Godavarman Thirumalpad Vs Union of India & Others. The Supreme Court said that that the allotment of 11.89 hectare of reserve forest land in Survey No.21 Kondhwa Budruk in district Pune for agriculture purposes on August 28, …
KOLKATA, 28 JUNE: Several residents of Kalitala, North 24-Parganas, have alleged that the postmaster of the Kalitala post office has been taking bribe to disburse money meant for Aila victims. He has also been accused of withholding NREGA wages. The Kalitala post master, Mr Ramen Mandol, allegedly charges Rs 200 …
JHARKHALI, 20 MAY: Laila is knocking at the door and residents of Sunderbans don't even know what flood and cyclone shelters are. According to Mr Mortaza Hossain, state disaster management minister, there are 315 flood shelters in coastal areas of North and South 24-Parganas and Midnapore East. But, a visit …
Female health workers in India face an increasing workload that affects their performance. The authors did a study in 2 districts of West Bengal, India, to quantify their workload and identify determinants of good performance.
The district human development report of North 24 Parganas portrays the diverse features of this district and also depicts the multilayered development that has taken place, over the past five to six decades. Burgeoning urbanisation and very presence of the Sunderbans open up a rare opportunity to the policy makers …
KOLKATA, 10 DEC: The West Bengal horticulture department is planning to set up six multi-purpose cold storage units in the state under the National Horticulture Mission. The initiative has been taken after it was found that most of the fruit and vegetables were wasting away after harvest due to poor …
Poll debacle of the Left parties in the recently held elections has apparently caused severe damage to the confidence of the CPI-M led state government. And the Aila victims are the worst sufferers of the situation. People whose houses were damaged during the cyclone Aila that had hit North and …
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, that hit parts of West Bengal last month, has damaged flowers and betel vines cultivated in six districts ~ Midnapore East, Howrah, North 24 Parganas, Birbhum, Nadia and Burdwan ~ and the loss is estimated at Rs 13 crore, according to a preliminary assessment done by the state …
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
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 …
Rajib Chakraborty Issues Formation of a Third Front government at the Centre is one of the main issues for CPI candidate Mr Ajay Chakraborty. He is assuring voters of providing safe drinking water especially in the Sunderbans belt. Industrialisation is another area where the Left Front candidate is focusing on. …
Ishita Ayan Dutt / New Delhi/ Kolkata April 20, 2009, 0:01 IST Bhushan Steel has informally approached the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) for an additional 1,000 acres in West Bengal, in the wake of negotiations with Sumitomo Metal Industries (SMI) for participation in its steel project. Sources close …
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 …
