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 …
Days after the West Bengal Information and Technology department announced the scrapping of an IT park project with Infosys and Wipro in Rajarhat New Town, Chief Minister Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today put his foot down at a Left Front meeting, saying the state needed to retain the two IT majors. …
Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi launches a CD of songs composed by Raja Rammohun Roy at Raja Rammohun Roy Memorial Museum on Amherst Street on Monday morning with the lights and fans not working. The museum went without power for over 30 of the 45 minutes that the governor spent on the …
The central pollution control board has praised a city initiative to promote the use of lead-free paint on idols though most pujas are yet to opt for non-toxic colours.
One morning in the summer of 2008 Asharf Molla woke up and saw the irrigation department water pump, the only source of water for his 1.5-bigha plot, was not working. When he started asking around, the middle-aged farmer learnt that all the four pumps in Baliguri village, barely 3km from …
The Union minister of state for urban Development, Mr Saugata Roy has urged the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to take initiative to complete houses for the urban poor on time. Mr Roy visited Nonadanga where houses are coming up for people coming from economically challenged families. The people who …
The civic body has started planting trees along drainage canals to increase fruit production in the city and prevent erosion of banks. The Rs 1.28crore Green Belt Project, a part of the Rs 1,800crore Calcutta Environment Improvement Project funded by Asian Development Bank, is expected to increase the supply of …
Police looked the other way as Left Front supporters made a mockery of parking rules in the heart of the city on Monday. Trucks and buses that ferried comrades from the districts to the rally to commemorate the food movement were parked in double and triple lanes along both pavements …
Seven of the eight marmosets stolen from Alipore Zoo on August 9 were recovered by a crime branch team of Durg in Chhattisgarh tonight. One person has been arrested and is being questioned by Chhattisgarh police. The newly elected director of Alipore Zoo, Raju Das, said:
The state transport department is planning to allow registered autorickshaws without permits to ply on existing routes or on ones where three-wheelers have been operating illegally to hasten their switch to LPG. Around 30,000 autorickshaws in Calcutta, Howrah and North and South 24-Parganas are registered with the transport authorities but …
Transport operators faced a double whammy on Monday with the Supreme Court refusing to give polluting buses and taxis a new lease of life and Calcutta High Court dismissing a petition challenging the decision to junk seized two-stroke autos. The apex court bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice …
Kolkata: Police went on a wild-goose chase throughout Monday to recover the 8 common marmosets stolen from the Alipore zoo on Sunday, even as reports of sightings surfaced from all over the city and the outskirts. The police also arrested two zoo guards
As Sadhan Maiti drove his 16-year-old auto past a police van on Sunday, the two-stroke sham behind the ban smokescreen was out in the open. Maiti, one of the 70,000-odd auto drivers benched by the high court-imposed ban on polluting vehicles, did not take out his rickety three-wheeler from August …
Kolkata: Eight Brazilian monkeys found in only two zoos in India were stolen on Saturday night from Alipore Zoological Gardens. The theft of the Common Marmosets
The ill-equipped Infectious Diseases Hospital in Beleghata in the city braced for a flood of swine flu patients with two persons admitted yesterday testing positive and the countrywide count increasing rapidly. Health minister Surjya Kanta Mishra asked all district and subdivisional hospitals to
A small, retrofitted LPG kit may make 10,000 two-stroke autos street legal but they will continue to pollute more than the four-stroke ones, warn experts.
- LPG plan activated to let more autos run as real test begins OUR BUREAU As the city braces for its first weekday tomorrow since the vehicle pollution ban hit its streets, the government has worked out a plan of
