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 With West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee raising objections to the draft of a 15-year agreement with Bangladesh on the sharing of Teesta river water, the Centre has decided to put it on hold. According to the draft, India and Bangladesh will share the water in the ratio of …
Sept. 5: If Delhi had agreed to share half the Teesta’s waters with Bangladesh against Mamata Banerjee’s wishes, the very purpose of the Teesta Barrage Project, aimed at providing irrigation water to north Bengal and generating electricity, would have been defeated. Environmentalists and river experts have pointed out that if …
For transmitting the fruits of administration in an effective manner the West Bengal Government is planning to create at least six new districts in the State. A decision to this effect has already been taking regarding Capital Kolkata and Jhargram, a sub-division and a police district in West Midnapore district. …
Jalpaiguri, July 4: The state forest department has requested the Assam government to send 20 female rhinos in exchange for the same number of males to rectify the skewed sex ratio of the animal in Gorumara National Park. The foresters say the ideal sex ratio of the rhino is 3:1 …
Jalpaiguri, June 28: The forest department is considering setting up a hospital for wild animals. The immediate trigger seems to be the two elephants injured by a speeding train on Saturday. Currently, veterinarians from the animal resources development department look after the injured animals in the Dooars forests. Sources in …
Jalpaiguri, May 19: Over 200 houses were partially or completely destroyed and power and water supplies were disrupted when a storm battered Jalpaiguri town and the adjoining rural areas last night. It was around midnight last night when it began to rain and soon, a storm lashed the area and …
Jalpaiguri, May 5: The state forest department will not allow any new resort or hotel, private or government, to come up within a 10km radius of any wildlife sanctuary or national park once the surrounding areas are notified as eco-sensitive or fragile zones. Vipan Sood, the conservator of forests (wildlife), …
Jalpaiguri, Dec. 13: The state forest department has submitted a proposal to the Centre for the erection of 10 watchtowers along the rail route in north Bengal to keep a track on the movement of elephants. After seven elephants had been mowed down by a speeding goods train at Moraghat …
Jalpaiguri, Dec. 5: A team of Indian Space Research Organisation scientists has arrived in north Bengal to conduct ground-based surveys of tea gardens before using remote sensing satellites to map the estates. The survey is part of a project expected to help tea growers in north Bengal improve the management …
Jalpaiguri, Nov. 24: The elephant census has been extended to the Sakam forest at the edge of Neora Valley National Park this time. For the past two years, jumbos had been spotted using the 800-foot-high patch of land in Neora as their corridor. This morning, on the first day of …
Jalpaiguri, Nov. 19: A three-day elephant census next week will focus on spotting injured animals alongside counting their numbers in the forests lying between the Mahananda wildlife sanctuary in the Terai and the Sankosh end of the Buxa Tiger Reserve in the Dooars. Forest department sources said one of the …
Two weeks after seven wild elephants were killed by a speeding train in Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, three well-known environment protection groups have successfully carried out demonstration of an imported speed-detection gun on trains in an elephant corridor near Guwahati. The demonstration showed how the gun would help enforce speed restrictions. …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: A rare species of snake, spotted only twice in the past, was discovered at a home in north Bengal's Jalpaiguri town, West Bengal Forest Department officials told The Hindu on Thursday.
Alipurduar/Siliguri, Sept. 30: Railway staff have spotted wild elephants close to the tracks and stopped trains 19 times since September 22 when seven jumbos were mowed down by a speeding goods train in Banarhat, the Northeast Frontier Railway has claimed.
In the wake of the wake of the incident of seven elephants being mowed down by a speeding trains at Banarhat in Jalpaiguri, CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has written to Union minister of environment and forest Jairam Ramesh to take initiative to stop running trains during night in the elephant corridors …
KOLKATA, 27 Sept: The state government today declared Jalpaiguri and Bankura as e-district after the chief minister inaugurated the project through which citizens can get various services through online submission of forms and delivery of certificates. The chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, inaugurated the citizen service kiosks through video-conferencing. At …
City animal activists are calling for establishing an action plan to prevent deaths of animals in train accidents. This comes after reports of the death of seven pachyderms after a speeding goods train hit them while they were crossing the tracks near Binnaguri in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. The …
The death of seven elephants in a train hit in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district is a grim reminder that little has been done to stop such slaughter in various States. Assam and West Bengal account for two-thirds of elephant mortality in train hits, followed by Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Uttar …
Alipurduar, Sept. 23: The forest department was not following a suggestion made during a joint inspection that it would pass on information about the presence of elephant herds close to the tracks to the nearest station, senior railway officials today alleged. The divisional railway manager of the Northeast Frontier Railway, …
