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 …
The civic health department will organise a spot blood test campaign in slum areas from next week to detect malignant malaria. The campaign was launched following a directive from the state health department. Health officials will collect blood samples from people suffering from fever. "The main objective is to isolate …
Sanjib Chakraborty KOLKATA, July 28: It's been three months since the electric furnace for the crematorium ground of Madhyamgram municipality has been completed, but one detail has kept it from being inaugurated and put to use. An unclaimed body is required for the trial run of the furnace, located at …
Calcutta, July 24: The power situation in the city and the districts worsened today with the combined shortfall in the evening peak hours shooting up to 975MW. A shortage of 225MW in the city caused power cuts for two to three hours. The districts endured more with seven to eight …
DEEPANKAR GANGULY Armed with a compensation kitty of Rs 100 crore, the government will begin acquiring 7.5 bighas of land in the city's central business district after Puja to create the East-West Metro corridor. The first land-acquisition notices were issued last week to the owners of two central Calcutta properties
JAYANTA BASU The chief minister at the pollution control board programme. Picture by Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya Environment minister Sailen Sarkar on Tuesday denied colleague Subhas Chakraborty's allegation that the notification on the withdrawal of 15-year-old commercial vehicles was issued keeping the transport department in the dark. "We decided to issue the …
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman, Mr Rajendra K Pachauri, will be visiting the city in the first week of August this year to discuss issues relating to global climate change, chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said today. Speaking at a function organised by the West Bengal Pollution Control …
To help clear the city's air of pollution, especially on account of emissions from auto-rickshaws, the state government has mooted a proposal for the replacement of all diesel-run auto-rickshaws. The proposal at present is still being discussed. Auto rickshaws, if the proposal materialises at all, will henceforth run either on …
The chairman of the state pollution control board (PCB), Mr AN Basu today complained to the chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, about state government-run hospitals not following norms required for the discharge and disposal of medical wastes. Speaking at a programme organised by the PCB to celebrate the World Environment …
Old, polluting vehicles are on their way out Transport minister Subhas Chakraborty on Monday expressed surprise at the high court order to phase out 15-year-old commercial vehicles but added his government would implement the directive. "I have heard about the high court order banning 15-year-old commercial vehicles though I am …
JAYANTA BASU The environment department will be drafting a package of incentives to make the city's transport lobby fall in line with its clean-air notification that the high court converted into a verdict last Friday. Transport unions have threatened to contest the order in the Supreme Court, saying they would …
Scores of trees are being felled in Calcutta every month to make way for billboards, according to the West Bengal forest department. Last week, four full-grown trees
Kolkata's public transport has to move to CNG Metropolises in this country have made, or are in the process of making, a switch to CNG as far as their public transport system is concerned. The first, and most comprehensive, switch was made by Delhi, which converted all public transport vehicles …
Though virus-borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya had plagued the city over the past few years, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, it seems, is yet to learn from its previous failures. This was evident when it came to light that the KMC is yet to start a proper surveillance on diseases like …
FOLLOWING a decision to develop unused real estates with private parties, the Indian Postal department has now identified 1,800 locations including land that may either be sold off to private parties or commercially developed in joint venture with them. To this effect, the department is also mulling a separate company
Bag Messaging, Air Purification & Toilet Contracts ORGANISERS of the Beijing Olympics are banking on a clutch of small Indian companies to make sure everything goes smoothly at the sporting extravaganza. From managing the new airports messaging system, to making portable potties, this edition of the Olympic games is already …
A child enjoys his journey back home from school through a waterlogged street in north Calcutta. Picture by Sanat Kumar Sinha Showers lashed the city on Wednesday, with the Met office recording the season's second highest rainfall so far. Calcutta received 51.4 mm of rainfall in 24 hours, till 8.30pm …
If driving past the Ruby rotary on the EM Bypass during peak hours leaves you on the edge, the good news is that you won't have a bad time on that road every day for the rest of your life. The Bypass will be expanded from two to four lanes …
JAYANTA BASU A smoke-belching three-wheeler on a city road Calcutta's air will continue to be polluted by the exhaust of old autorickshaws running on adulterated fuel with the government putting the brakes on the conversion of two-stroke three-wheelers to LPG. After advocating conversion for five years, the government found "demerits' …
Science City, on EM Bypass. A Telegraph picture Firemen fight the flames at Saqi Bar on Sunday. Picture by Sanat Kumar Sinha The state will get its second Science City in Barasat. The National Council of Science Museums, which runs the Bypass Science City, has agreed to set up the …
The ground water level at Calcutta airport has risen to six inches below the primary runway this monsoon, adding to safety concerns triggered by rubber deposits and patches of concrete peeling off the main tarmac. "One of the reasons for the surface becoming fragile is the rising water level under …
