Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Kolkata has been ranked as the fourth most vulnerable among 11 major coastal cities in Asia that are threatened by climate change as it is
Rajiv Tikoo New Delhi: While it may be premature to link Cyclone Phyan to climate change, the fact remains that coastal areas are relatively more vulnerable to extreme weather events. For example, Kolkata has emerged as one of the five most climate vulnerable coastal cities in Asia, according to a …
Devjyot Ghoshal & Sharmistha Mukherjee / Kolkata/new Delhi November 03, 2009, 0:19 IST Kolkata Metro still in red, but DMRC is making operating profits This can be an eye-opener: Around 100,000 passengers are reported to be using the Kolkata Metro daily without tickets, as the ticket-checking infrastructure is in a …
Swati Garg / Kolkata October 20, 2009, 0:59 IST The global economic downturn has had a greater impact on the unorganised segment of the timber industry in Kolkata than is at first visible. The crisis has served to further highlight the differences in the way the organised and unorganised segments …
KOLKATA, 18 OCT: City cops have been successful in their mission to enforce the cracker ban as 1069 people, including a doctor, were arrested for bursting banned firecrackers on Diwali. Police said, the neurologist of a private nursing home in the city, Dr Sisir Das was arrested last night after …
A clinical trial okays an expensive vaccine for India typhoid is the fifth common disease in India; children are particularly vulnerable. But no vaccine to prevent this contagious disease has been part of the country
Vehicles more than 15 years old and two-stroke auto rickshaws continue to ply on Kolkata streets. This is despite the high court setting August 1 as the deadline to get such vehicles off the Kolkata Metropolitan Area and the Supreme Court upholding the high court order (see
Kolkata residents can breathe easy: The Supreme Court refused to stay an order banning 15-year-old commercial vehicles from Kolkata roads. Calcutta High Court had directed the old vehicles should be phased out by July 31 saying citizens have the right to breathe pollution-free air. The Bengal Bus Syndicate had approached …
KOLKATA: The city police are seeking assistance of Interpol to track down those responsible for the theft of eight exotic Brazilian marmoset monkeys from Alipore Zoo here on August 9. It is suspected that the monkeys might have been smuggled out of the country or stolen by those having links …
Raktima Bose KOLKATA: Angry transport operators attacked government-run buses and held protest rallies in the city on Saturday as the West Bengal government commenced its drive to phase out transport vehicles older than 15 years, in accordance with a Calcutta High Court order. Most autorickshaws, some private buses, and taxis …
Urbanisation in India is both a necessary input and an inevitable consequence of growth. However, we must accept that the existing urbanisation models are unsustainable at the Indian scale and there is no available alternative trajectory. The international climate change negotiations can be seen as an opportunity to create an …
With the Supreme Court refusing to stay a Calcutta High Court order banning commercial vehicles over 15 years old from Kolkata, transport operators Friday decided to keep all such vehicles off the roads from Saturday. Parked trucks as their drivers participate in 24-hour strike to protest against Calcutta High Court …
JAYANTA BASU Modern High School has decided to toe the green line drawn by Calcutta High Court and take five old buses off the road from August 1. A notice circulated on Tuesday among girls taking the school bus stated:
Will Kolkata succeed in phasing out two-stroke autos by July end? two-stroke and non-lpg (liquefied petroleum gas) four-stroke autorickshaw will not be allowed to ply in Kolkata from August 1, the Calcutta High Court has ordered. The city has around 38,000 registered two-stroke autorickshaws running on petrol; 30,000 of them …
Basic water supply is crucial to effectively address the challenges of both urban and rural development. Municipal authorities/state governments in developing nations are especially hard pressed to design, develop and finance the basic urban services such as safe and reliable water supply. Various studies on the subject clearly highlight the …
Cyclone Aila hit West Bengal on May 25 with a fury unprecedented in recent history. It took at least 94 lives, seven of them in Kolkata, and affected over 40 lakh people. More than six lakh houses were destroyed completely or damaged partially. The cyclone originated in the Bay of …
KOLKATA, 7 JUNE: The state government is likely to move the Calcutta High Court for the extension of the deadline for phasing out of two-stroke autorickshaws from 31 July to December 2009. According to a senior official of the state transport department the government may move the Calcutta High Court …
