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 …
BARUN GHOSH Calcutta, Jan. 11: The government has decided to purchase 50 acres in Bhangar directly from farmers to set up a state university for minorities, having learnt bitter lessons on land acquisition in Singur and Nandigram. The government is stepping with caution on the land
OUR BUREAU The government is set to move court on Friday seeking a combined deadline to phase out the two-stroke autos that should have gone by December 31 and replace all old commercial vehicles that are supposed to go by March 31.
MALINI BANERJEE Vinay Jaju and Huub Dekkers, who will cycle to Delhi for a green cause. Picture by Sanat Kumar Sinha From Calcutta to the capital on two wheels, powered by two legs and the drive to clean up the air. That
K.P. NAYAR IN WASHINGTON The National City Center in Troy, Michigan, where a hydrogen-powered autorickshaw plies Capitalist America, red rag to Citu, has a way out of Calcutta
KOLKATA, Jan 7: Outdoor fogging is a waste of time, according to the advisory committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation which submitted a report on ways to prevent vector-borne disease outbreaks today. The committee from the KMC's health department has asked the civic body to stop outdoor fogging while encouraging …
- Green autos spewing toxic fumes? It happens only in Calcutta, where lawbreakers dictate terms and a helpless government succumbs to them The Telegraph sat in on a 10-second demonstration by the Auto Bachao Andolan on how to convert a supposedly mono-fuel auto from LPG to katatel, the toxic cocktail …
Ill health would come at the top of any list of the effects of fog and smog followed by disruptions in transport services. Most of what we call fog in metros like Delhi and Kolkata is smog created by atmospheric pollutants that get mixed up with thick, moisture-laden air that …
Calcutta, Jan. 5: Calcutta High Court today stuck to its schedule on the ban on polluting autos, refusing a plea for early hearing and prompting the government to defer by a few days its petition for extending the deadline. The Autorickshaw Operators
KOLKATA, Jan. 5: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) would install water meters in high-rises and group housings, mayor Mr Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya said today. He was speaking at the launch of a programme to prevent wastage of water, Save Water Project, organised by the PC Chandra Group.
A STAFF REPORTER Calcutta is ready to give up the rogue auto for the chance to breathe cleaner air, according to a poll commissioned by Metro. Sixty-seven per cent of the respondents to the poll, conducted by GfK MODE, said they supported the high court
KOLKATA, Dec. 31: With the incidence of tigers straying into human settlements increasing, the state forest department has decided to put up nylon fencing for nearly 10 km. In addition, the department has also taken the decision of implementing a management system in the buffer zone similar to the one …
Transport minister Subhas Chakraborty today pulled out yet another plan from his hat to dodge the deadline to ban two-stroke autos from the streets of Calcutta. A high court order bans them from January 1. Although Chakraborty said the government would implement the July 18 order, he promised an escape …
The state government is taking us for a ride. In polluting autorickshaws at that, as no agency in the state is authorised to carry out conversion of in-use vehicles to LPG. On July 18, Calcutta High Court had given the government two broad tasks
Howrah General Hospital is facing acute scarcity of filtered water with all its water purifiers currently out of order. All the 29 water filters, installed in January 2003, stopped functioning due to lack of maintenance. Most of them are found covered with cobweb and washbasins have almost turned into dustbins. …
Employees of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) have decided to oppose the proposal of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to take over a sewage treatment plant (STP) with vacant land and buildings in Baghajatin. In 2004, when Mr KS Rajendrakumar was the principal secretary of urban development department, it …
