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 …
Siliguri, March 1: The Siliguri Municipal Corporation has come out with Draft Development Plan that ensures to take up 515 schemes of Rs 550 crore in the next five years.
Siliguri, Feb. 25: The Darjeeling district administration has confirmed the presence of the bird flu virus in Punding and Khairani under Sukna panchayat near here today. Culling operations will start from late this evening in Sukna panchayat and Champasari, the other flu affected area.
Siliguri, Feb. 17: The main reason behind the tussle over land acquisition in Singur for Nano car factory was the absence of land bank in Bengal, Sandipan Chakravortty, the chairman of the eastern region of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), said here today. Chakravortty, who is the managing director …
Alipurduar, Feb. 15: A woman has been gored and bitten to death by a rhino in Jaldapara even as foresters get ready to conduct a census on the animal in the sanctuary this weekend. On Friday evening, Pramila Munda (50) of Pradhan Para in Alipurduar, along with other villagers, had …
- Englishbazar civic body to build 4 reservoirs Englishbazar Municipality is set to receive Rs 55 crore for its drinking water project in a week, chairman of the civic body Narendranath Tiwari said here today. Tiwari said Bengal urban development and municipal affairs minister Asok Bhattacharya had given him
To chug by new rulebook Siliguri, Feb 9: The Darjeeling Himalayan (DHR) will draft a Conservation Management Plan to administer toy train service as part of a move to fulfil a mandatory clause of the Unesco for heritage properties.
OUR CORRESPONDENT Siliguri, Feb. 2: The North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) is organising a 15-day Fuel Saving Training Programme for its drivers and mechanics at Tenzing Norgey Central Bus Terminus here to curtail expenditure. Supriya Kar, the chairman of the corporation who inaugurated the session, said on an average, …
Siliguri, Jan. 28: The West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation, in association with the Tea Board of India, has decided to draft a package to promote the use of renewable and eco-friendly energy sources in the tea estates of north India. The corporation hopes such a package would help curb …
OUR CORRESPONDENT A health worker sprinkles bleaching powder in Matigara block on Wednesday. (Kundan Yolmo) Siliguri, Jan. 7: Culling of poultry birds was completed last night in the Siliguri subdivision and the Rajganj block in the adjoining Jalpaiguri district where avian influenza had been detected on January 3. Sarad Dwivedi, …
Chickens being culled at Bidhannagar Market in Siliguri on Monday. (Kundan Yolmo) Siliguri, Jan. 5: More than 15,000 birds were culled in the subdivision till 9.30pm today with people eager to get rid of the H5N1 virus at the earliest. Unlike Malda, there was no resistance in parting with the …
OUR CORRESPONDENT Chickens being culled in Kamrangaguri in Jalpaiguri district on Sunday. (Kundan Yolmo) Siliguri, Jan. 4: The sale of poultry and eggs has been banned within 10km of the bird flu-affected areas of Matigara. The entire Siliguri town and Rajganj block of Jalpaiguri district will come under the ban.
OUR CORRESPONDENT Siliguri, Jan. 2: The Siliguri subdivisional administration has formed teams to search for dead chickens after 50 poultry birds were reported dead in Matigara over the past one week. However, it is yet to be confirmed if the poultry had died of bird flu, said Sarad Dwibedi, the …
The Darjeeling district administration has asked the departments to expedite development work in the tribal dominated areas of the Siliguri subdivision.
- Foresters find 25-30 samples of scat in five-day-long census Foresters have found 25-30 samples of tiger faeces in the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary during the five-day long census that ended yesterday. The faeces or scat is the second most conclusive evidence after direct sighting to confirm the presence of big …
Siliguri: A study will be conducted to see if it is feasible to construct a railway overbridge at Ghumtee 4, one of the main entry points to Jalpaiguri town, to ease traffic congestion.
More than three dozen elephants have been killed after being hit by trains between Siliguri and Alipurduar railway stations in the North East Frontier Railway in the past eight years and yet neither the state government nor the railway board seems to have an answer to stop the rising cases …
Ambootia tea garden (Kurseong), Sept. 18: A UN body will partially fund three pilot projects worth $4 million in India for creating a scientific system for cultivation of organic black tea. Till date, organic tea plantation in India is based on a trial and error method, without any set procedures. …
OUR CORRESPONDENT The solar halo in the Siliguri sky on Wednesday. Picture by Kundan Yolmo Siliguri, Sept. 10: A halo around the sun seen from Siliguri this morning triggered curiosity as well as rumours as it coincided with the start of the Big Bang experiment in Geneva. When the aura …
Siliguri, Sept. 5: Farmers whose plots on the outskirts of Jalpaiguri town had been acquired for setting up a circuit bench of Calcutta High Court have resumed cultivation on the land after it lay unused for the past six years.
