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 …
If you thought a school on the premises of a State Raj Bhavan would serve as one of the best examples of the success of implementation of the Government
New Delhi, Oct. 29: The Centre today approved the four-laning of the 84km Barasat-Krishnagar section of NH 34 at an estimated cost of Rs 859 crore. The cabinet committee on infrastructure cleared the project, which will help reduce travelling time between Calcutta and north Bengal. The highway is the only …
A study conducted by a city-based NGO, Calcutta Samiratans, revealed that most of the KMC-run schools and the state-run primary schools do not provide mid-days meals to the children. The study covered 11 KMC and state-run schools in the city. Mrs Reshmi Ganguly, co-ordinator of Calcutta Samaritans said one of …
The authorities of a Buddhist temple in central Calcutta are up in arms over an open garbage vat in their backyard which they alleged the civic authorities had not been relocating despite repeated pleas. Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya admitted that the vat needed to be shifted but asked temple officials …
This Saturday, 24 October, will be a red-letter day. And for reasons not because the Peace of Westphalia was signed (1648), marking the end of both the thirty years
The state fisheries minister, Mr Kironmoy Nanda today alleged that the district administration was filling up a waterbody illegally to facilitate setting up of a private educational institution, land for which was leased out by the state government. At the behest of the chief minister the Mani Bhownick Foundation was …
A STAFF REPORTER Police chief Gautam Mohan Chakrabarti inspects the Bazi Bazar grounds on Monday. (Sanat Kumar Sinha) Police, fire brigade and the pollution control board on Monday gave permission for the inauguration of this year
More than 500 volunteers gathered on the Maidan on Sunday morning for what turned out to be the largest clean-up in the city. Starting 7.30am, cadets from the army and navy as well as green police and civilians, including school and slum children, uprooted bushes and overgrown grass and removed …
KOLKATA: Thirteen months after it had been called off following a technical fault, the world's most ambitious scientific experiment is set to resume. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Switzerland, that seeks to simulate the Big Bang, will roll again in November. Around 20 Kolkata scientists from the Saha …
The high court on Wednesday passed an interim order restraining the state government from filling up a cluster of water bodies spread across 2,000 bighas at Chamrail in Howrah. The vacation division bench of Justice A. Basu and Justice S. Banerjee also directed the state pollution control board to file …
Pollution of the Hooghly because of idol immersion has continued unabated this year with recommendations of the central and state pollution control boards remaining on paper and the civic body and the port trust blaming each other. Metro watched immersions in six ghats in Calcutta and Howrah on Monday night …
Three low floor buses were flown into service by the state transport minister, Mr Ranjit Kundu, today. The vehicles have been procured under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme. The buses would ply on routes ~ 221, 214 and 32 ~ one each. The state government has …
The state pollution control board has pulled up 32 nursing homes in Kolkata, Howrah, North 24-Parganas and South 24-Parganas for flouting pollution norms. Recently, some scientists of the WBPCB visited various nursing homes in and around the city and found that many nursing homes were being run without proper bio-medical …
CM Announces Proposal Via Media, Says Nothing On Land Price Our Bureau KOLKATA IN WHATcan be a positive coup for the beleaguered West Bengal government, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday offered 45 acres of land at Rajarhat to each Wipro and Infosys. The state government had been going through …
Govt works on new land plan OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Calcutta, Sept. 16: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today disclosed that Wipro and Infosys had rejected a government proposal to give them 10 acres each in Rajarhat.
