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 …
West Bengal will get an impressive Rs 4,000 crore investment in Haldia. This was disclosed by Purnendu Chatterjee, the chairman of the Chatterjee Group said after meeting with Bengal Industries Minister Partho Chatterjee on Wednesday. A large part of the proposed investment would be in the Haldia petro-chemical project, Chatterjee …
The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) will launch a massive campaign against use of plastic carry bags of thickness below 40 microns. The campaign will be launched at Gariahat market of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) by the state environment minister, Dr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar, on 1 July. Campaigns will …
The civic body on Sunday opened a polio control room in Metiabruz to counter the resistance of a section of local residents to the Pulse Polio drive. The
KOLKATA, 23 JUNE: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will sink 1,600 new tubewells in the city, member, mayor-in-council (mini and deep tube well), Mr Tarak Singh, said today. He said the KMC has asked all the councillors to provide details of requirement of sinking tube wells in their respective wards …
KOLKATA, 23 JUNE: A dye factory located adjacent to the Indian Botanic Garden in Howrah was closed following the environment minister, Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar
A high-power committee, constituted with officials of different departments, is on the anvil to prevent waterlogging in the city and look into proper drainage of stagnant water after rains, state irrigation and waterways minister, Dr Manas Bhuniya, said today, after a meeting with the mayor, Mr Sovan Chatterjee, officials of …
KOLKATA, 17 JUNE: One person today died as heavy rain pounded the city and its adjoining districts since last night caused by a deep depression that lay centred 80 km from here. A fishseller died on way to the market at a village in Bishnupur area in South 24-Parganas district …
KOLKATA, 14 JUNE: Believe it or not the premises of one of the two state-run ID hospitals ~ Satyabala ID hospital in Howrah ~ has turned into a garbage dump owing to the sheer apathy of the administration during the 34-year Left Front rule. Though chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee's …
The Mamata Banerjee government is working on an amendment to the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 to enable the return of 400 acres in Singur to farmers who were
KOLKATA, 25 MAY: The state government has decided to conduct a comprehensive cancer study. The decision came after it was found that cancer institutes did not carry out surveys on the incidence of the disease in most parts of the state. Incidentally, the rate of incidence of cancer has gone …
KOLKATA, 16 MAY: After defeating CPI-M candidates in Rajarhat Gopalpur and Rajarhat New Town constituencies in the Assembly poll the farmers now want their land back which had been forcibly taken from them by the Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) to set up New Town. Trinamul Congress leaders Mr …
KOLKATA, 15 MAY: A first-of-its-kind course in the country on renewable energy has been initiated in the city by a collaboration of Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) and the Queensland Government of Australia. Arka Community College will start its first batch on 1 January 2012 with 25 students for …
The banned two-stroke autorickshaws are out in strength in New Town, the only mode of easily available, cheap public transport in a township crying out for basic amenities. More than 700 two-stroke autos, most running on a lethal mix of polluting fuels called katatel, ply on the 15km main arterial …
Top Indian metros like New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata fall under the country's moderate to highrisk seismic zones, the National Disaster Management Authority says. "Earthquakes are a major concern. Over 58.6 per cent of land in India is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and 38 cities fall under moderate to …
KOLKATA, 5 APRIL: A public interest litigation (PIL) seeking an interim order to restrain West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) from giving effect to a notification on 29 December, 2009, which completely prohibited the use of loudspeakers in open areas, was filed in Calcutta High Court today. Filed by Trinamul …
Global management consultancy McKinsey & Co says over the next 15 years, the centre of gravity of the urban world will be heading South in general, and to the Eastern regions in particular. Today, 600 cities, mainly in the North and the West, generate about 60 per cent of the …
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who hit the campaign trail on Sunday evening with a road show at Behala in Kolkata, said that if voted to power, the party will give priority to industry, health, education and administrative reforms in the first 200 days of the government.
