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, 26 APRIL: The compliance report of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) was conspicuous by its absence among similar reports of different state government departments concerning Victoria Memorial which were placed before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court last …
The UK’s University of Liverpool has tied up with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to identify areas in India that are at higher risk of malaria outbreaks, following changes in monsoon rainfall patterns. The UK-based university’s School of Environmental Sciences started working on the project in January …
KOLKATA, 24 APRIL: “Kolkata's Pride,” the Metro Railway, reported a loss of Rs 99.26 crore in the 2011-12 fiscal year. This is Rs 15.35 crore higher the operating loss the country's oldest tube railway reported in the previous year. In 2011-12, Metro Railway spent Rs 304.72 for every Rs 100 …
KOLKATA, 22 APRIL: Tsunami devastated their lives eight years ago, but they are yet to get compensation announced by the Centre. And now the administration tells the 321 tsunami-hit families of South Andaman and Nicobar Islands not to be swayed by “rumours” that the compensation money ~ Rs 130 crore~ …
KOLKATA, 18 APRIL: The SSKM Hospital is set to start a neonatal care unit next month. This will be first such facility to come up in a state-run hospital in the city. The 30-bed facility will be opened on the ground floor of a new multi-storeyed building, being built in …
The Bengal government today signed seven land lease agreements for 546 acres with industries involving an investment of over Rs 5,000 crore. The big names today included Matix Fertiliser, which is building a urea plant at Panagarh and TVS, which along with Mahabharat Motors, is building a two-wheeler manufacturing hub …
KOLKATA, 11 APRIL: Tremors felt in several districts of the state due to an earthquake, measuring 8.5 on the Richer scale, that hit off the western coast of northern Sumatra, triggered panic in the city and caused people to evacuate their workplaces and houses and come out on the streets. …
DURGAPUR, 11 APRIL: To provide filtered drinking water to the tribal population, the public health engineering (PHE) department plans to install a Rs 2.78 crore Rig bored scheme in Kanksa, Burdwan. According to officials, this would cover a quarter of 15,000 families residing in the jungle mahal area of Kanksa. …
SHAKEN, NOT SHATTERED: Waves Of Panic Hit East Coast Chennai/Kolkata: Waves of panic swept through India’s eastern coast on Wednesday afternoon as cities were rocked by tremors and repeated alerts of a possible tsunami being triggered by a massive earthquake of 8.6 magnitude off the Indonesian coast. The alert generated …
A tsunami watch was issued for countries across the Indian Ocean on Wednesday after a large earthquake hit waters off Indonesia, sending residents pouring from their homes in panic. Tremors were felt in several cities in India where a tsunami warning has been issued for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. …
Calcutta/New Delhi, Apr 11 (PTI): Calcutta and its neighbourhood were rocked by tremors of the earthquake that rocked waters of Indonesia’s coast on Wednesday. A large number of people rushed out of offices in Park Street and downtown BBD Bagh area here as windows and doors rattled. According to reports, …
Night pollution a major contributor. KOLKATA, 5 APRIL: There is a piece of bad news for those Kolkatans who are non-smokers and turn over in their sleep assured in the knowledge that they will never end up like the hero of a novel who shoots himself after finding he is …
A quick glance at the city’s pollution data of the last few months would leave any green activist happy. The real story is, however, starkly different — the figures are misleading since 17 of the 20 pollution measuring units have not been working since January. Calcutta High Court on Thursday …
KOLKATA, 22 MARCH: The state government plans to offer incentives to encourage industrialists to set up their units in the state, commerce and industries minister, Mr Partha Chatterjee said here this today. He was talking to reporters on the sidelines of a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) conference. Mr Chatterjee …
KOLKATA, 14 MARCH: Even while choosing the collision course with his party boss Miss Mamata Banerjee over hiking of passenger fares, railway minister Dinesh Trivedi proposed some new projects and 20 new trains for West Bengal. The long distant Express trains proposed by Mr Trivedi are Secunderabad-Shalimar AC Express (Weekly) …
New Delhi, March 13: Railway minister Dinesh Trivedi has a dream project — a network of high-speed rails for the country which could see a bullet train linking Calcutta with Haldia. But, for now, his budget tomorrow will have to focus on safety and funding options for the cash-strapped lifeline …
When Dinesh Trivedi presents his first railway budget on Wednesday, the city would be keeping track of his Metro connectivity plans. At least three new Metro networks are in the pipeline for Calcutta and feasibility studies for all three are done. Mamata Banerjee had announced surveys for six Metro routes …
Travelling from Garia to Bongaon may just turn zippy, if the state government’s plan to connect the two with a 100km flyover, tipped to be India’s longest, succeeds. Urban development minister Firhad Hakim announced the project on the sidelines of a CII summit on Tuesday. He said a study had …
KOLKATA, 7 MARCH: Land acquisition is a serious obstacle for the construction of the East-West Metro Project, Subrata Gupta, managing director, the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), said today. Talking to reporters at the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry this afternoon, Mr Gupta said the project has run …
If the criterion of computing compensation in an Act does not boil down to payment of just and equivalent of what the owner has been deprived of, then it is a bad legislation, advocate-general Anindya Mitra submitted before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti …
