Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Aparna Sarkar Vs Siliguri Municipal Corporation & Others dated 08/04/2025. The NGT, April 30, 2024 directed the Siliguri Municipal Corporation that the entire cleaning of legacy garbage and collected waste in the drains and way side, including road side garbage …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Despite repeated requests from the Union Environment and Forest Ministry against the running of trains through forest areas, Railway authorities have not relented to its demands leading to recurrent incidents of elephants and other wild life being run over by trains. The unscheduled shunting of an engine …
Siliguri, July 11: The Bombay Natural History Society is inching towards releasing the first set of vultures from the three captive breeding centres of the country, one of which is in Jalpaiguri
Gangtok: A rhino horn, valued at about Rs 20 lakh, was recovered from three persons at Siliguri in West Bengal, forest department sources said on Tuesday. Police arrested the trio from Siliguri on June 27 after they showed the rhino horn to the cops, who posed as buyers and agreed …
An advisory to the state forest department has underscored the construction of underpasses or overpasses across railway tracks in the forests of north Bengal to bring down the number of animal deaths, but wildlife experts claimed the proposal was impractical. The Union ministry of forests and environment
Siliguri, June 8: A rainwater harvesting project of the North Bengal University for which funds of more than Rs 7 lakh had been sanctioned by the state has been abandoned. Under the project, a check dam was to be built across the Magurmari stream that passes through the varsity premises, …
Alipurduar, June 2: Tracks are turning elephant corridors into killing fields. An elephant moving from one forest to another was mowed down by a speeding train in the Siliguri-Alipurduar Junction section on Monday night. With the latest death, the number of elephants killed on tracks in this section since May …
Siliguri, May 5: The forest department has taken up projects to count and study the Asiatic black bear and to find out the status of different species of butterfly in Senchal Wildlife Sanctuary.
- WWF trains border guards to conserve park & keep away smugglers Siliguri, April 30: The forest department is trying to bring in the Sashastra Seema Bal to check the smuggling of rare medicinal plants from the Singalila National Park to Nepal. The 78.6sqkm park is on the Indo-Nepal border …
Gangtok, April 25: The double-laning of NH31A, the lifeline of Sikkim, has hit a hurdle as the Bengal forest department has not yet granted permission to the Border Roads Organisation to work on the stretch that runs through Darjeeling district. The chief engineer of BRO
Siliguri: More than 75 per cent of the bought-leaf factories in north Bengal have closed down because of acute shortage of tea leaves triggered by low rain and pest attacks during the time of first flush when the best quality brew is produced. To tide over the crisis, BLF owners …
Kalimpong, April 11: The water scarcity in Kalimpong has forced villagers to ration water to suppliers pumping it out from springs and restaurants to restrict their sales. The hill subdivision has received little rain since October 15. The commercial supply of water to Kalimpong
- Hill track journey cut short for second time in four days Darjeeling, March 29: The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway continues to be hit by disruptions. The Unesco World Heritage property ran out of steam once again today because of poor quality of coal. On Friday, too, the DHR could not …
Truckloads of trash dumped in river RAJEEV RAVIDAS Waste being dumped in the Teesta at Labarbote near Kalimpong. Picture by Chinlop Fudong Lepcha Kalimpong, March 2: Ignoring environmental concerns, the Kalimpong municipality continues to dump garbage in the Teesta river. And, in the absence of any concerted campaign to stop …
Siliguri, Feb. 17: The forest department will for the first time conduct a bison census in Gorumara National Park and Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary later this month.
Cooch Behar, Jan. 29: Jaldapara and Gorumara will no longer be the only habitat of rhinos in the state. The Indian one-horned rhino will now be found in Cooch Behar
The southern tip of India is in for a special treat, an annular solar eclipse, on the afternoon of January 15, 2010. A SPECTACULAR sight awaits people residing at the southern tips of Kerala and Tamil Nadu on the afternoon of January 15, 2010. The moon will pass directly in …
The Siliguri Municipal Corporation will release CDs on the systematic disposal of waste in an awareness campaign for residents to be launched next month.
Three major reasons for elephant invasion in tea gardens of the Dooars have been identified and two committees have been formed to find solutions to the problem. A meeting attended by forest officers and estate managers at Rajabhatkhawa on Saturday discussed the elephant menace and decided to form eco clubs …
River breaches dyke, hundreds marooned A woman carries drinking water through waist-deep floodwaters at Hospitalpara in Jalpaiguri on Thursday. Picture by Biplab Basak A flooded Bhaktinagar police station in Siliguri on Thursday. (Kundan Yolmo) Siliguri, Oct. 8: Heavy showers in the past 48 hours triggered by a low pressure prevailing …
