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 …
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 …
Aug. 20: The army has been called in Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar to evacuate over 1,500 marooned families. More than 3,500 families in three north Bengal districts have been affected after the water level of the rivers passing through them rose. The Siliguri subdivision of Darjeeling and the Sadar and …
Water from rivers across north Bengal has started receding following less rainfall in the hills and the plains, save a couple of places. After incessant rain was reported in the sub-Himalayan Bengal in the past two days, there was less downpour in Darjeeling, Gangtok and Kalimpong and also in Siliguri …
Kolkata, June 14 The West Bengal Tourism Department Corporation (WBTDC) has identified 22 waste lands that could be developed into tourist destinations. The move, to have the lands now belonging to the West Bengal Government transferred to WBTDC, is afoot. Giving this information to newspersons here on Saturday, Mr T.V.N. …
The wheels which were set in motion by 12 Nobel Laureates in Germany would now break new ground in Guwahati. Science Express, the prestigious project of the Department of Science and Technology today opened its doors to residents of the city, and captivated a large number of schoolchildren. The train …
Kalimpong, March 16: A fault in a pipeline has hit the water supply to Kalimpong, which is already reeling from acute water scarcity this summer. In the past few days, the people had been provided with water only once in three days as the reservoirs are not getting enough water …
A rhino in Jaldapara during the census on Sunday. Picture by Anirban Choudhury Alipurduar, Feb. 24: The forest department will conduct a feasibility study to see if rhinos can be introduced in the Buxa Tiger Reserve to try and expand their gene pool in neighbouring Jaldapara, where it has apparently …
Conservation policies to protect wildlife and biodiversity ignore the basic survival needs and imperatives of local people. This article aims to show how conservation policies trigger floods in protected areas, especially those located in the foothills of the Himalayan mountain ranges, leading to huge damage to plantations and habitats as …
Raktima Bose KOLKATA: The Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science and Technology has approved a Rs. 30 lakh proposal of the city-based Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute (NSCBCRI) to conduct a study on the health patterns and health management of the Toto tribal people in north …
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.
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.
JALPAIGURI: Two rhinos, which had strayed into human habitation from the Gorumara reserve forest in West Bengal, on Sunday returned to their natural habitat thanks to the effort of forest officials. District Forest Officer Tapan Das said a female rhino and its calf strayed from the Gorumara Reserve forest on …
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.
The state government is doing all it can to reshape the Siliguri-Jalpaiguri belt into an industrial hub WEST Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has good news to share with his prospective Indian and foreign investors: 'It's ready - come to Siliguri to set up new industries and business. There will …
With the latest outbreak of bird flu in Jalpaiguri, a district of bordering Bangladesh, the Central government on Friday reviewed the situation at a high-level meeting here on Friday. Union Cabinet Secretary B.K. Chaturvedi convened a meeting with West Bengal Chief Secretary Amit Kiran Deb here to discuss the situation …
Kalavati Barai of Raipur Tea Estate in Jalpaiguri has been watching the consistent deterioration of her family of six over the past four years. In March this year, her husband succumbed to severe anaemia and related complications. "I couldn't feed him, so he died,' she states simply. Since the tea …
The paediatrician's word is most often good advertisement for baby food manufacturers. But when paediatricians' associations in many parts of the country passed a resolution prohibiting their members from vouching baby food products, Nestl
With the monsoon yet to run its course, north Bengal, where the rivers are already in spate, lives in fear. THE recent floods in north Bengal, which affected over one lakh people and rendered more than 70,000 homeless, might just be a warning. Incessant rain since the first week of …
