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 …
Goats are increasingly seen as a threat to the ecology as they feed on any type of plant species. But goat keeping continues to be an important livelihood activity for the resource poor people. BAIF has promoted a number of initiatives with twin goals of helping small farmers in rearing …
About 50 Trinamul Congress supporters today stopped work on a fencing around the land acquired for the first phase of the airport city project in Burdwan
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Targeting the Leftruled West Bengal government for misuse of NREGA funds, minister of state for rural development Sisir Kumar Adhikari has asked Cabinet minister C.P. Joshi to look into the matter. Sources said several instances of misuse of lakhs of rupees under NREGA funds have come to notice, …
Indronil Roychowdhury Kolkata: The Bengal government is redrawing proposed power projects in the state due to difficulties in acquiring land. The government had planned to set up four power plants in Birbhum, Purulia Murshidabad and Burdwan districts during the 11 th five-year plan period for an additional generation of 3,390 …
Markov chains have been used to model spatial changes in a variety of spheres. Changes in social situations, economic standards, natural resource availability, and even weather conditions have been explored and predicted using Markov Random Function (MRF) and Markov Random Chains (MRC). In this section, the authors try to use …
Two years ago, over 1,500 farmers had volunteered to give up land for industry in Ausgram, Burdwan. Two days ago, officials who went to circulate a notice on cheque distribution there, were told to stay away. About 60 farmers, believed to be Trinamul Congress supporters in an area that is …
Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata September 22, 2009, 0:13 IST The decision was reached after political consensus; sellers offered land-for-land deal Stung by the public relations crisis caused by the scandal over private sector acquisition of land for the Vedic Village spa and resort on Kolkata
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 …
While declining real product prices faced by primary commodity producers was one of the central causes of rising farm indebtedness, the gradual shrinkage of formal credit institutions in rural areas has simultaneously caused increasing dominance of private players in the credit market, rendering producers all the more vulnerable. A class …
ASANSOL, April 3: The Trinamul Congress chief, Miss Mamata Banerjee, is arriving here tomorrow to address her party men at Jamuria ~ the den of illegal coal mining in Burdwan. Illegal coal has been a major issue in Jamuria and Raniganj, in almost every election. The Jamuria Assembly segment, together …
Children pay for illegal mining operations in West Bengal THERE are about 20 mines, mostly illegal, in Salanpur village in Burdwan district. The district has rich deposits of coal, fire clay and iron ore. One among the 20, a fire clay mine, claimed two young lives on February 8 in …
A variety of vegetables available in city markets can pose serious health hazards as they have been found to be high in toxic content. The root cause? Rampant use of banned pesticides. A recent study by the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute has revealed that many vegetables, instead of providing nutrients …
Asansol city is an industrial urban area which is also part of the Raniganj Coalfield area and is located in the Burdwan district of West Bengal. Over the last five years there was hectic development in the area in terms of industries, vehicles and infrastructures. These have resulted in significant …
BURDWAN, Dec. 31: Burdwan~ one of the leading paddy growing districts in the state will soon employ a high-tech drying process which will cut down on breakage of rice grains. A Mumbai-based international engineering major has developed an improvised version of dryer that will reduce moisture level in rice grains. …
Eight-year-old Muskaan is kneeling close to a patch of fresh, hot coal. She is sorting charcoal pieces that she will pile into a bamboo basket for her father to carry across the town of Raniganj. Everyday, groups of other men, women and children join her at this coal-burning ghat, only …
Satellite-based mapping of coal fire is an effective technique in terms of cost and time. At present, ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) is the only available spaceborne sensor, which provides multi-channel thermal data. ASTER provides moderate-resolution thermal data useful for mapping of coal fires, which generally have …
