Barddhaman (D)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding desilting of the Defence Colony drain in Delhi before the monsoon, 16/04/2025

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 …

Govt considers proposed merger of Burdwan Dairy

Following its failure to privatise the state-owned dairies which are running at huge losses, the state animal resources development department is considering a proposal to merge the near defunct Burdwan Dairy with Mother Dairy. The state-owned dairies along with transport corporations draw huge subsidy from the state government. Initially, the …

Geomorphic controls of arsenic in ground water in Purbasthali I & II blocks of Burdwan District, West Bengal, India

Arsenic values in groundwater above the maximum permissible limit of 0.05 mg/l (Indian standards) have been reported from Bhagirathi­Hooghly flood plain region of West Bengal. The present study area Purbasthali I and II blocks in Burdwan district, West Bengal, evolved due to the flood plain forming processes. Many flood plain …

Letter from Central Pollution Control Board to the Member Secretary, West Bengal Pollution Control Board dated September 17, 2010

Directions under Section 18(1)(b) of The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 in case of M/s. Indian Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Burnpur Works, P.S. Hirapur, Burnpur, Pin - 713325, West Bengal.

Water, water... not for poor farmers

JAMALPUR, 15 SEPT: The Burdwan administration has ordered a probe into alleged siphoning off underground water reserve by a packaged drinking water unit here. Locals raided the unit on Monday demanding immediate stoppage of operation and a detailed probe against issuance of work permission. The private unit was bottling underground …

Green fields belie the real state of Bardhaman farmers

Ananya Dutta AUSGRAM (BARDHAMAN): The vibrant green of paddy saplings that stretch across acres in Ausgram block in West Bengal's Bardhaman district belies the faint cracks in the soil just below and the crisis that has driven three farmers to commit suicide within a fortnight. The family of 32-year-old Gosai …

Another farmer kills self in West Bengal

Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Even though the West Bengal government is yet to confirm that suicides by farmers in Ausgram block of Bardhaman district are drought-related, with the third incident of a farmer killing himself, district authorities admitted on Thursday that they were

Farmers to get tube-wells for drought-hit Burdwan

 BURDWAN, 25 AUG: The district administration of Burdwan has been ordered to overhaul the deep tube-well system across the “rice bowl”of Burwan to help extend irrigation facilities ~ however minor ~ to the farmers who braved cultivation despite severe dearth of rainfall this year. The measure, according to the senior …

Harvest blues

Sudipta DattaEven a decade ago, it seemed that West Bengal had a problem of plenty

DVC to increase water discharge to save paddy cultivation

DURGAPUR, JULY 26: The Damodar Valley Corporation has finally come to the rescue of Bengal

Burdwan plans plantation of broad-leaf trees

BURDWAN, 21 JULY: The district, affected by rampant air pollution, has stressed the extensive plantation of broad leaf trees across the district, especially in the industrial segment of Asansol

24 workers fall ill after inhaling toxic gases

Raktima Bose KOLKATA: Twenty-four workers fell ill after inhaling a heavy concentration of toxic gases inside the Durgapur Steel Plant at Durgapur in Bardhaman district on Thursday. The incident happened within a day of 118 persons falling ill after inhaling chlorine gas that leaked from a cylinder at the Mumbai …

Violence takes its toll on elephants

Indrani Dutta Kolkata: This is a man-animal conflict of another kind. In the nearly year-old gunfight between security forces and Left Wing Extremist rebels and also due to the activity of the LWE in general in the Jangalmahal forest area, elephants are increasingly being forced to escape from the woods …

Heat stress kills zoo leopard in Burdwan

DURGAPUR, 1 JUNE: The last surviving leopard in Ramana Bagan Zoological Park in the Burdwan forest range died today (See photo). It was gasping for life and according to the veterinary surgeons supervising the inquest:

Stop loading, carry on looting

1. Men mount wagons to dump coal on the ground at Hazratpur dump yard of Borjore on Tuesday 2. The coal emptied from the rakes piles up while police keep watch 3. The looted coal is carried away from the dump yard in baskets 4. Coal is transferred from baskets …

Cong joins labourers against Aerotropolis

demand for shortlisting of beneficiaries DURGAPUR, 25 MARCH: The peasant wing of the Congress today joined the farmland labourers

Women join Aerotropolis protest

DURGAPUR, 23 MARCH: Hundreds of housewives carrying broomsticks (in SNS photo) protested against the state's bid for acquisition of farmland to help set up an Aerotropolis project by a private agency at Andal, today. The women drove out officials of the district Land Acquisition (LA) wing who had gone to …

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