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, 14 SEPT: Fiscal instruments do not figure in sectoral plans in Action Plan for Climate Change and its inclusion would enable better implementation of the goals set to mitigate and adapt to climate change, said Mr Debal Roy, the state government's chief environment officer today. He was speaking at …
KOLKATA, 14 SEPT: Mr Toru Hashimoto, manager, International Technical Cooperation Division, City of Yokohama in Japan, along with the Japanese Consul General in Kolkata, Mr Mitsutake Numahata today met the Hidco chairman and managing director, Mr Debasis Sen, and gave a presentation on carbon-free habitat. The city of Yokohama that …
She is contesting against Mrs Nandini Mukherjee of CPI-M, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering in Jadavpur University, in the by-election on 25 September. The seat fell vacant after the state PWD and transport minister Mr Subrata Bakshi resigned. As many as 116 motor garages and engineering workshops have …
BHUBANESWAR: Over a million people in at least 19 districts of Orissa have been hit by flood in the Mahanadi river systems which, with increased volume of water reaching the deltaic head of the State by Saturday night, was set to grip more and more areas in the downstream coastal …
Surging waters from a swollen Mahanadi and its tributaries continued to wreak havoc in Orissa, affecting more than 2,800 villages in 19 districts and leaving 16 dead as the Naveen Patnaik government Sunday sought central funds for relief. The flood has so far affected over 13 lakh people, most of …
KOLKATA, 8 SEPT: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today cleared the Kolkata Municipal Corporation's proposal to augment the city's water supply and upgrade of sewerage and drainage system. Mayor Mr Sovan Chatterjee today met a five-member ADB team this afternoon. The Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the projects will be …
India’s first bullet train could be a Calcutta-Delhi service, covering 1,500km in six hours to make Rajdhani and Duronto look like the laggard locomotives of old. “The project is being discussed and we are looking for finance. We are looking at a public-private partnership on a build, operate and transfer …
KOLKATA, 5 SEPT: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will urge the Defence minister Mr AK Antony not to raise any objection over Hooghly river beautification project, mayor Mr Sovan Chatterjee said today. Mr Chatterjee will meet Mr Antony tomorrow in Delhi regarding the matter. It may be recalled that the …
KOLKATA, 31 AUG: The state government has devised a multi-pronged strategy to curb growing environmental degradation, including development of appropriate technology to curb industrial and other pollution, and introduction of environment guards. Environment minister Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar said a committee has been set up to suggest ways to tackle …
The government’s plan to fast track de-congestion of major cities is running in the slow lane for almost three years now. The Rs 16,600 crore plan, which seeks to de-congest cities witnessing increasing urbanisation by building ring roads, bypasses, grade separators, elevated roads, tunnels, under passes etc was cleared by …
KOLKATA, 23 AUG: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has proposed to upgrade the Gardenreach water works under public-private-partnership (PPP) model with the loan available from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This indicates that the civic authorities are contemplating to introduce water tax despite the chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee categorically …
Kolkata, 7 Aug: The conventional streetlights in Kolkata would soon be replaced with new-age LED luminaries to reduce power consumption and control carbon emissions while ensuring better visibility after sunset. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has taken the eco-friendly decision after receiving encouraging results from an ongoing pilot project in which …
KOLKATA, 3 AUG: The state health department has drafted a Vision Statement 2011 which identifies loopholes in the state's healthcare sector. The Vision Statement will be presented before the chief minister at a meeting on 11 August. Senior health department officials included in the statement a road map for the …
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday wondered why the West Bengal Government took possession of the Singur land “within hours” of notification of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011. Justice Mr I.P. Mukerji took a cue from the Tata Motors counsel, Mr Samaraditya Pal's argument. Mr Pal argued …
Kolkata: It is wobbly with a crooked needle and a depressed piston. The tip looks blunt, the cap is loose and the tube has a pale exterior. ‘For single use only’, says the instruction printed on the syringe but it looks far from a fresh one, safe enough for use. …
Calcutta, July 31: The Centre has stopped giving the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) funds under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission because of its refusal to levy water tax and inability to bring almost half the houses in the city under the property tax net. Delhi has not issued …
KOLKATA, 26 JULY: The railways’ engineering public sector undertaking (PSU), RITES, is set to push new boundaries with Kolkata's Hooghly riverfront development project. The pilot project, which is slated to be kicked off by chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee on 2 August, will use hot-rolled steel sheet piling technology to …
KOLKATA, 18 JULY: The state government has requested All India Radio (AIR) to undertake a survey to examine the transmission capacity of Kolkata-A-Channel, after reports that fishermen in the Bay of Bengal on the Indian side are receiving signals from a Bangladesh radio instead of the AIR. Such a survey …
KOLKATA, 15 JULY: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will supply 235 Million Gallon Per day (MGD) of filtered water to the city, mayor Mr Sovan Chatterjee, said today. He was speaking during the handing over of the Garden Reach Water Treatment Plant from Kolkata Metropolitan Water and Sanitation Authority (KMWSA) …
