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 …
Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to extend the deadline for old and polluting autorickshaws. The three-wheeler phaseout was to happen in three phases
Police along with officials of the civic body, state pollution control board and CESC sealed 11 illegal tanneries in Tiljala, Topsia, Tangra and Karaya on Monday. The crackdown will continue till all the illegal tanneries have been sealed, said Ajey Ranade, the superintendent of South 24-Parganas police. Last week, the …
Environment activist Subhash Dutta petitioned the high court on Friday to order a CBI probe into the alleged unauthorised felling of 100 trees at the Indian Botanic Garden last month. Acting on Dutta
ON THE SPOT - JODHPUR LAKE Garbage strewn in Jodhpur Lake Just five years after it was renovated in 2003 at a cost of Rs 32 lakh, Jodhpur Lake and the adjoining park, located just behind the place where the Jodhpur Park Durga puja is held, has turned into a …
How placental cells heal placental cells have curative properties, and traditional systems of medicine, especially the Chinese. Modern science, too, has its uses. Placental cells are widely used by drug industries for preparing anti-bacterial creams, wound-healing bandages and even for certain skin diseases, after studies found that placental cells have …
Over 41 students of a school for SC/ST girls near the capital have suddenly fallen ill with symptoms of malaria or viral fever, spreading panic among teachers and parents a week after the tragedy in a Bero residential school where five boys died after drinking milk served with hostel snacks. …
A water resource centre was inaugurated at Bengal Engineering and Science University (Besu) today to conduct collaborative research on water and environment. The centre has been set up in partnership with Queen's University, Belfast. Research scholars from both the universities will work together in this centre to develop various technologies …
The Indian Botanic Garden authorities have allegedly cut down at least 30 trees without permission from the forest department. The authorities claimed the trees were felled to set up a flower garden and such operations are undertaken regularly. The chopped trees have been sold through auction.
At a time when the spurt in vector borne diseases have caught both the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state health department unaware, bureaucrats and politicians are busy passing the buck. And this has resulted in confusion over the fate of the dengue kits, which were sought by the …
The state transport minister Mr Subhas Chakraborty has convened a meeting to discuss the issue of banning all vehicles as old as 15 years with the public transport operators at Writers
Though over 25,000 people have been afflicted by Malaria and Dengue in the city in the past two months, the drive to spray mosquito repellents at every house by civic workers has virtually collapsed. The civic authorities had issued a circular asking all field workers to carry out anti-larval measures …
Why Gobindobhog rice fails to yield in saline soil? gobindobhog aromatic rice is essential to many delicacies in eastern India. This small-grain rice variety commands high premium in domestic and international markets. But its cultivation is limited to a few districts, such as Nadia, Murshidabad, Bankura and Purulia, in West …
Keeps ulcer at bay people suffering from stomach ulcers may now look for a cure in their kitchen garden. Scientists at the S N Pradhan Centre for Neurosciences, University of Calcutta, say pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) has medicinal properties that protect against peptic ulcers. Excessive acid secretion often damages mucosal lining …
Smog in the city and fog at the airport on Diwali made breathing by night and flying by morning hazardous. Flight services at Calcutta airport were grounded on Wednesday morning as a fog blanket enveloped the runway, lowering visibility to 50 metres at 6.50am.
The city and its suburbs were powerless and sweaty for several hours on Monday as a coal crisis struck the Bakreswar plant and the maximum temperature remained a couple of degrees above normal. The West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company said Tuesday could be worse if coal supply did not …
