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 …
Poison in the air and love for the puff have made Calcutta the lung cancer capital of India. A study has revealed that in 2007 Calcutta had topped the metros in new lung cancer cases. The comparative study on lung cancer is part of the National Cancer Registry Programme conducted …
KOLKATA, 1 FEB: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will supply an additional 60 million gallon of water per day (MGD) to Salt Lake and north and central parts of the city from December this year, mayor, Mr Sovan Chatterjee said today. After visiting Indira Gandhi Water Treatment Plant at Palta …
KOLKATA, 23 JAN: Seventy people fell ill and 5,000 people were affected following leakage of ammonia gas from a cold storage at Nagerbazar in Dum Dum today. Panic gripped residents and many fled the locality. Around 5,000 people were affected and some of them were admitted to a local hospital. …
KOLKATA, 24 JAN: The leaking valves of the cold storage, which emitted ammonia gas affecting about 3000 people in Nager Bazar area in the northern outskirts of the city, were yet to be fully plugged this morning. People in the area are still in a state of panic even 12 …
Rubbishing the claim of mayor, Mr Shovan Chatterjee, that the Trinamul Congress-led Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) board never wanted to install water meters in the city, the state municipal affairs minister, Mr Asok Bhattacharya, today said the issue of purchasing water meters was mentioned in the agenda paper of the …
State urban development minister Asok Bhattacharya announced on Tuesday that Rs 9 crore was being allotted to purchase water meters for the Calcutta Municipal Corporation areas, leaving the ground clear for a tussle with the Trinamul Congress. The Opposition party, which runs the CMC board, is against collecting water taxes, …
KOLKATA, 27 DEC: The desilting and strengthening of underground sewers with glass-reinforced polymer pipes (GRP) in south and north Kolkata is a distant dream and is not possible before September next year, senior civic officials feel. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has floated a global tender to find out a …
Industries alone are not to be blamed for water pollution in Orissa. A large dose of contribution comes from agriculture and domestic sectors too. Runoffs from agriculture fields, contaminated with pesticides as well as insecticidal chemicals, have been identified as a major pollutant of water in the State. Though the …
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation is planning to resume the supply of unfiltered water in an attempt to check the colossal waste of filtered water that costs the civic coffers Rs 4 lakh daily.
The supply of drinking water in vast areas of north Kolkata and the northern suburbs was affected after a 72-inch underground pipe of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation developed cracks this morning. The mayor, Mr Sovan Chatterjee, along with senior officials of the water supply department, rushed to the spot and …
In the age of recycling, ragpickers perform a socially highly useful function. But the middle class simply wants them banished Russel Street, off Park Street, is among the poshest addresses anyone in Kolkata can think of. Queen
Light logbook 1857: Gas light (Chitpur) 1889: Electric light (Harrison Road/MG Road) 1970: Fluorescent lamps 1990: Sodium vapour lamps 2009: CFLs 2010: LED lamps The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has taken up a pilot project to illuminate parts of the city with environment-friendly light-emitting-diode (LED) lamps.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will develop the infrastructure of Revised National tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in order to bring down the rate of Tuberculosis disease in the city, member, mayor-in-council (health) Mr Atin Ghosh said today. Mr Ghosh said the KMC will launch an awareness programme with the help …
KOLKATA, 5 DEC: Beset by a funds crunch, the state government is considering handing over the entire East-West Metro Corridor project to the ministry of railways instead of transferring only a portion of the share of the joint venture company executing the project, as proposed by the Centre. Although the …
KOLKATA, 1 DEC: A year and a half after the chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, unveiled the foundation stone for the light rail transit system (LRTS) at a five-star hotel in the city with much fan fare, the project was given a quiet burial today when the joint venture company …
For the first time, Naxal groups are showing a presence in Rajarhat, Newtown, in what the state government fears is a bid to replicate the Singur-Nandigram model of agitation. The development coincides with the Trinamool Congress
The Bantala tanneries are posing a risk to the environment because of the failure of the state and the Centre to complete the construction of the common effluent treatment plant in the 12 years since work on the leather hub started, the CAG has said in a report.
THE West has restarted the practice of spending money on ornamental fish as the developed economies are slowly recovering from global slowdown. This, in turn, has given a fillip to the ornamental fish industry in the Northeast, which contributes 85% of ornamental fish exports from India. The diversified Indian aquatic …
