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 …
KOLKATA, 12 JUNE: The Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) is planning to auction around 100 acres of its land in and around Kolkata and is awaiting a nod from the Centre. All this to raise funds to meet future liabilities towards payment of pension to the employees, the KoPT management said. …
KOLKATA, 11 JUNE: Today the season's death toll due to heatstroke rose higher, with five more dying as a result of persistent high temperature. In a tribal area in Birbhum, Laxmi Murmu (45) died of a sunstroke as temperatures in the district soared to 45.1 degrees Celsius. In Purulia, heatwave …
New Delhi, June 11: A physicist in Calcutta and a graduate student in Bangalore who jointly simulated the solar interior on computers have discovered that the Sun has a short memory — only about five years. Solar physicist Dibyendu Nandi and PhD student Bidya Binay Karak have shown that the …
DURGAPUR, 6 JUNE: Animals trapped inside a closed factory here must be rescued, former minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has told the Burdwan district administration. On Monday, Mrs Gandhi called Burdwan district magistrate Onkar S Meena seeking a detailed status report on animals occupying the closed Mining & …
Kolkata: The relentless heat killed 67 more people across West Bengal on Tuesday, six of them in Kolkata, pushing up the death toll to 86 in just two days. Five prize horses also died despite water and ice therapy. The Met department has warned that it will get worse as …
KOLKATA, 5 JUNE: The first three collection points ever for e-waste were set up in the city today by the environmental group Toxic Link. The group plans to put 20 of the collection bins outside important landmarks across the city, said Mr Rajeev Betne a Kolkata-based programme coordinator with Toxics …
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will provide a special fund for the development of areas under Joka I and II gram panchayats that have come under its jurisdiction. Also, steps would be taken to amend the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 to include the areas under KMC either by extending the …
KOLKATA, 1 JUNE: The chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, who laid the foundation stone for a tourism project and 15 cyclone shelters at Sagar Island today announced that her government will undertake infrastructure development of Sagar Island with a view to promote tourism. “The Ganga Sagar Mela is a very …
KOLKATA, 30 MAY: Greenpeace India campaigners ~ some dressed as orangutans ~ staged a protest outside Park Street KFC today against the company's alleged use of products containing timber and palm oil from packaging company Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). The APP has come under fire for carrying out deforestation …
KOLKATA, 30 MAY: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has increased its earnings from car parking by Rs 82 lakh in 2011-12. A senior civic official said revenue increased following a series of drives against illegal car parking and the racket that operates it. The KMC had earned Rs 6.40 crore …
KOLKATA, 28 MAY: At a time when about 60 per cent rural households in the state do not have electricity, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is setting up 50,000 trident lamps just to decorate the city leading to electricity consumption enough to light up another 32,000 households. According to the …
After a study by the Institute of Urban Transport revealed that the Kolkata tram is a cheaper, environment-friendly mode of transport, the Ministry of Urban Development has asked metropolitan cities to consider re-introducing trams. The ministry suggested that trams could be introduced along Bus Rapid Transit corridors. The Municipal Corporation …
Devolution of more powers to panchayats in the management of national rural drinking water mission and the issues of arsenic and shortage of drinking water will figure prominently at the two-day national conference of state ministers of rural drinking water supply and sanitation beginning in New Delhi tomorrow. The state …
A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words. What better way then to raise awareness about malnutrition than asking children to express their thoughts on the topic by wielding the brush or crayons. Students of schools from across the city were invited to send drawings and paintings on …
KOLKATA, 16 MAY: The future of Indian cities ~ and Kolkata ~ lies in urban densification in the form of high-rise buildings and “virtual land”, said Mr Debashish Sen, principal secretary of West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (HIDCO) today. “Let the developers come,” said Mr Sen in a reference …
KOLKATA, 16 MAY: It may sound unbelievable, but the third oldest underground sewer line in the world has been cleaned for the first time since its installation and re-commissioned today. The mayor, Mr Sovan Chatterjee, and other senior civic officials were present at a function held on Beadon Street to …
The Celsius soared to a season high of 40.5 degrees on Wednesday, prompting the weather office to sound the summer’s first heat-wave warning for Calcutta. The hottest day of the year so far was also the second hottest May day of the decade after a 42.1-degree scorcher on May 9, …
KOLKATA, 14 MAY: In an initiative to combat high rates of malnutrition in children of West Bengal, GlaxoSmithKline consumer healthcare have partnered with Horlicks and the Child In Need Institute (CINI) to launch ‘Aahar Abhiyan'. One rupee from every large pack of Horlicks sold in West Bengal will be contributed …
KOLKATA, 29 APRIL: In wanton destruction of trees along the VIP Road to facilitate the construction of a flyover between Teghoria and Lake Town by the state Public Works Department as many as 186 trees have so far been felled. And, needless to say, all this at a time when …
Labels on packaged foods may not always carry totally correct information, finds Saheli Mitra Do you know that a packet of instant noodles has over 60 per cent of your recommended daily salt intake or that a Happy Meal contains 90 per cent of your child's daily requirement of trans …
