Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
KOLKATA, 26 JUNE: The state water resource investigation and development department has declared 38 blocks out of 341 blocks as "black zone'' where the groundwater level has gone down alarmingly. Mr Swapan Mahapatra, state minister for water resource, investigation and development department, said, these blocks have been identified in Burdwan, …
Durgapur, June 24: Farmers in a Durgapur village who had not accepted compensation for land acquired in 1964 and had apparently been promised by Trinamul before the Assembly elections last year that their grievances would be looked into have demanded return of their plots or compensation at the present market …
DURGAPUR, 6 JUNE: Animals trapped inside a closed factory here must be rescued, former minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has told the Burdwan district administration. On Monday, Mrs Gandhi called Burdwan district magistrate Onkar S Meena seeking a detailed status report on animals occupying the closed Mining & …
DURGAPUR/MALDA : Rain, accompanied by a thunderstorm, brought much-needed relief to the parched district of Burdwan but not before claiming 10 lives in lightning and injuring 12 others this evening. Three persons, including a woman and a minor girl, were killed when lightning struck Habibpur block in Malda this afternoon. …
SANKTORIA, 19 APRIL: Uncertainty over the fate of the proposed 2000-MW Thermal Power Station in Katwa of Burdwan continues. This time due to a stipulation by the coal ministry. The coal block allocated to the West Bengal Power Development Corporation (former promoter of the project) for the purpose has now …
The project was held up due to paucity of funds The Mamata Banerjee government on Wednesday gave its nod for a proposal to hand over a State-sector power project that was being implemented at Katwa in Bardhaman district to the erstwhile National Thermal Power Corporation, now simply NTPC. While NTPC …
Burnpur:At least 15 people, including seven policemen, were injured when villagers fought a pitched battle with police for more than two hours over land acquisition for an IISCO plant at Purusottampur — about 220km from Kolkata — in Burdwan district on Sunday. The villagers later gheraoed law minister Moloy Ghatak’s …
While Governor M K Narayanan has also put the weight of his office behind the growing concern over farmer suicides in West Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee government seems determined to play these down. In Burdwan, the state’s rice bowl, where 18 of the 27 deaths have been reported in the …
DURGAPUR, 2 JAN: The Burdwan District Vigilance Monitoring Committee, in its first meeting today, found out that the district's performance in the MGNREGA has gone down from the previous year. "This may lead to return of allotted fund," said Mr Mukul Roy, a Rajya Sabha MP and Union minister of …
Burdwan district, with its advantageous position in transportation network and good resource endowments, spontaneously responded to the commercialisation of agriculture. Rice received considerable commercial importance in the second half of the nineteenth century. It found access to new markets within and outside Bengal and consequently rice trade flourished. Rice trade …
KOLKATA, 26 DEC: The chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, will write to the Prime Minister requesting him to release the support price for procuring rice from the farmers of Bengal. Following complaints from Congress and CPI-M leaders that the paddy farmers are not getting adequate support price for their harvest, …
KOLKATA, 22 DEC: The city today experienced the second coldest day in the past 20 years with the mercury dipping to 10.8 degree Celsius. In the past 20 years, the minimum temperatures had dipped below 11 degrees Celsius only twice with 10.5 degrees Celsius on 30 December 1991 and 10.8 …
BURDWAN, 29 NOV: Diarrhoea outbreak claimed three lives and affected 32 others in Kulti and Memari blocks in the last six days. The district epidemic cell officials have visited the affected villages and sprayed bleaching powder in waterbodies and garbage dumps. In Bijur village in Memari-II block a sudden diarrhoea …
Calcutta, Nov. 23: The state government has decided to upgrade primary health centres to provide round-the-clock service, including “basic obstetrics” such as neo and post-natal care and child immunisation, the move aimed at reducing the burden of referrals on medical college hospitals in Calcutta. According to a report prepared by …
BURDWAN, 6 NOV: Thirty lorries, loaded with illegally-extracted sand from the Ajoy riverbed, were seized by the Durgapur SDO yesterday evening. The illegal consignment were meant to be transported to Dankuni, Rajarhat and Salt Lake. The sand, worth at least Rs 2 lakh, was being sold without required permit and …
Even as the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee continues to remain silent on the crib deaths in the state, her nominee at the Centre, Union minister of state for health, Mr Sudip Bandopadhyay, today said that the child mortality rate in West Bengal is lower than the national average and …
A day after 13 children were reported dead at the B C Roy Children’s Hospital at Kolkata, at least 16 more babies have reportedly died in two government hospitals in the state in last 24 hours. Four more babies died at Kolkata’s B C Roy hospital and 12 newborns are …
Kolkata, 28 Oct: Facing a mounting threat from pollution, the state government has constituted several committees to explore the need to frame a new environment policy. On the one hand, the state government is grappling with the health hazards caused to the people by sponge iron industries and on the …
BURDWAN/KOLKATA, 28 OCT: Close on the heels of the uproar over crib deaths at a Kolkata Hospital, the Burdwan Medical College & Hospital (BMCH) recorded deaths of 12 newborns in 24 hours. The director of medical education, Dr Susanta Banerjee, and the state health commissioner, Mr Dilip Ghosh, rushed to …
Facing a mounting threat from pollution, the West Bengal government has constituted several committees to explore the need to frame a new environment policy. On the one hand, the State government is grappling with the health hazards caused to the people by sponge iron industries and on the other, increasing …
