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, 24 OCT: To ensure compliance of pollution control norms, especially those for creating noise pollution by bursting firecrackers, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB), along with state environment department, is going to take a series of initiatives and action in the forthcoming Kali Puja and Diwali. A top …
Noise pollution levels have touched alarming levels in India’s big cities, making even nights as noisy as days in several areas and exposing people to a 24X7 assault on their eardrums, the apex pollution watchdog has found. The data reflected in a yet-to-be released, half-yearly analysis of continuous noise monitoring …
Looking to give a push to infrastructure development in the country the central government has approved building over 1,000 kilometres of expressways under its flagship road building programme NHDP at an investment of Rs 16,680 crore. The projects include the 400 km long Vadodara-Mumbai, the 66 km long Delhi-Meerut, 334 …
Delhi/Mumbai: The urban agglomeration of Delhi has for the first time overtaken that of Mumbai, whose UA’s population in 2011 stood at 18.4 million according to the latest census data, but if Vasai-Virar municipal corporation is added to Mumbai UA, it still stands shy of 20 million. If the same …
Calcutta, Oct 18: (PTI) A joint action team formed by Pollution Control Board, Calcutta and state police will ensure that sound pollution norms against firecrackers were not violated during Diwali. There would also be a toll free phone number for complaints, Minister for Environment Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar said here during …
Following instructions from the chief minister, the state land and land reforms (L&LR;) department will place a host of proposals for acquisition of land for state government projects in the next Cabinet meeting after she insisted that every such proposal should be placed before the Cabinet for a thorough scrutiny. …
The state environment department has carried out a survey to find out the adverse effects of mobile towers on human health in the state. The report would be submitted to the chief minister and later it would be sent to the Centre with the recommendations made by the expert committee …
The state government has set up an inter-departmental co-ordination committee to monitor the revamp of the city’s centuries-old drainage system before the next monsoon, irrigation minister Manas Bhuniya said on Tuesday. As a first step, a smaller panel comprising representatives of the irrigation department, CMC, CEIP and the CMDA has …
KOLKATA, 10 OCT: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will give subsidy for buying cycle-rickshaws powered by solar energy. A senior official of KMC said a large number of economically-challenged people from backward classes and minority community are earning their livelihood by driving cycle rickshaws. The erstwhile Left Front government took …
The civic body has drawn up a Rs 50crore project to replace sodium vapour street lights with light-emitting diode lamps (LEDs) to save 33lakh watt of power. The authorities have sought funds from the Asian Development Bank to implement the project. “Our aim is to replace 15,000 sodium vapour street …
Industry body Assocham urged the state government to play an active role in the acquisition of land for industry and wanted single window clearance for the revival of sick industry in the state. The Nano episode had sent a wrong message to the world and there was a need to …
‘Will Act As Deterrent To Acts Of Terror’ New Delhi: Fifty cities across the country will soon have Mobile Radiation Detection Systems(MRDS) as partof the preparedness to handle radiological emergencies like the onethathittheMayapuri area in the Capital where one person died last year. The Union home ministry recently sanctioned setting …
KOLKATA, 28 SEPT: The state public health engineering department will supply piped water to the arid districts of Purulia and Bankura from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) by undertaking a Rs 2,600 crore project which would be funded by Japan International Coorporation Agency (JICA). State PHE minister Mr Subrata Mukherjee announced …
KOLKATA, 27 SEPT: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has proposed offering better compensation package for landlosers to ensure that it gets the land needed for widening NH-34 that connects Kolkata and north Bengal. Senior officials at Writers’ Buildings said officials of NHAI recently visited Kolkata and held meetings …
New Delhi: Cancers caused by tobacco is highest among men from Kolkata and least among those from Mumbai, in the four metropolitan cities. Among women, tobacco related cancers were highest in those from Chennai and least among women in Delhi. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research’s “Cancer associated …
Chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today urged the residents of low-lying areas to move to safer places in view of the forecast of heavy rains and release of water from DVC and Chandil barrages. The chief secretary, Mr Samar Ghosh, too, will hold deliberations with irrigation secretaries of Orissa and …
Kolkata: Nine days before the temblor struck Sikkim and Bengal on Sunday, Dipak Ghosh, emeritus UGC fellow¸ had an uncanny feeling. The solid-state nuclear track detector he had embedded 70cm underground beside the Faculty Club at Jadavpur University recorded abnormal fluctuations in radon gas emission from below. Was this a …
The country's oldest water supply line, connecting Palta water works with Tallah of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), might have to be closed down to facilitate the metro rail project from Dum Dum to Barrackpore. The then railway minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, had announced the ambitious project and RITES will soon …
KOLKATA, 19 SEPT: The state food and supplies department has decided to introduce digitised ration cards and computerise the entire public distribution system (PDS) to prevent forgery and duplication of ration cards. The computerisation of the entire PDS involves four stages ~ digitisation of ration cards, godown management, monitoring lifting …
The West Bengal government has asked the Army to assist civil authorities, if needed, in relief and rescue work in Darjeeling and some other North Bengal districts affected by the massive quake that hit the region on Sunday evening. Darjeeling remained cut off from the rest of the country as …
