A mobile app will soon be put to use to help the West Bengal government monitor sanitation initiatives in schools across districts. "In Malda district all school inspectors and teachers will be equipped with the mobile app from next month. "They will be monitoring whether toilets are functional, whether they …
A mobile app will soon be put to use to help the West Bengal government monitor sanitation initiatives in schools across districts. "In Malda district all school inspectors and teachers will be equipped with the mobile app from next month. "They will be monitoring whether toilets are functional, whether they …
Five persons have died of dengue in Kaliachak in the last three days, district health department sources said here today. At least 30 others with dengue symptoms are presently undergoing treatment in the Malda Medical College Hospital (MMCH) and the Kaliachak block primary health centre, the sources said. The district …
Union Health Minister writes to CM expressing concern Concerned with the deaths due to acute encephalitis syndrome and Japanese encephalitis, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan has written to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee informing her that the Centre is sending teams to the State. In …
Scientific investigations into the outbreak of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in West Bengal, which has claimed 105 lives since June, have revealed a pesticide has been found “above minimum safe limits” in the chemical analysis of litchi samples from Malda, but asserted that it was too early to “confirm its …
Bengal has recorded a phenomenal growth in its forest cover in last two years. Quoting the India State of Forest Report, 2013, released in New Delhi by Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday , a Forest Survey of India (FSI) official said the state's forest cover has risen by …
More children were admitted to Malda Medical College and Hospital with “litchi syndrome“, bringing the total number of afflicted to 37. The report of blood and cerebral spinal fluid, which reached Malda on Thursday , however, confirmed that the victims had no traces of dengue, chikungunya or Japanese encephalitis. Experts …
Affected children are largely from around a litchi plantation in Malda In the last three days, nine babies aged three to five have died in Malda district after showing symptoms that suggested acute encephalitis syndrome. A seasonal disease for years in UP’s Gorakhpur and Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, AES appears to have …
Even as the toll in infant deaths in Malda Medical College Hospital rose to 14, a three-member expert team on Sunday ascertained that the casualties were caused due to malnutrition and low weight. Two more infants died last night taking the toll to 14 since May 22, as the expert …
Malda: Bidis bind villagers of Malda’s Uttar Dariyapur together, and so does cancer. Tucked away in a corner of Naoda Jadupur gram panchayat, about 20km south of Malda, nearly every household in the village has amember with cancer. In the last one year, more than 100 people have died of …
KOLKATA, 25 JULY: The state water resources investigation and development department today formed a seven-member committee to assess the situation with the state's groundwater ahead of preparing the state’s water policy. Headed by the secretary of the department, the committee includes environmentalists and scientists. Mr Saumen Mahapatra, water resources investigation …
Malda: The district administration will enforce a ban on plastic bags below the thickness of 40 microns from August 1 and slap fines on those who violate the rule. Although the ban on plastic bags below 40 microns was notified by the state environment department on December 16, 2008, it …
Englishbazar Municipality trucks meant for dumping garbage had to return because of stiff resistance from the residents of Madhabnagar, in the northern fringes of the town, here today. “They chased away the trucks and prevented us from dumping the waste. We, however, managed to dump the waste in a vacant …
KOLKATA, 3 JULY: Plots belonging to the tribals in north Bengal have been occupied by non-tribals but the state backward classes welfare department is unable to restore them because of legal complications coming in the way. According to an official of the department, land in Jalpaiguri and Malda and few …
DURGAPUR/MALDA : Rain, accompanied by a thunderstorm, brought much-needed relief to the parched district of Burdwan but not before claiming 10 lives in lightning and injuring 12 others this evening. Three persons, including a woman and a minor girl, were killed when lightning struck Habibpur block in Malda this afternoon. …
The Celsius soared to a season high of 40.5 degrees on Wednesday, prompting the weather office to sound the summer’s first heat-wave warning for Calcutta. The hottest day of the year so far was also the second hottest May day of the decade after a 42.1-degree scorcher on May 9, …
MALDA, 6 APRIL: At least 11 children died in Malda Medical College and Hospital in last 36 hours. State health department spokesman Asit Biswas confirmed the deaths of nine children in a 24-hour period and 15 children over the past seven days. But those figures aren't what the department is …
MALDA, 4 MARCH: Under the state health department's new communications policy, Malda Medical College and Hospital has been tight-lipped about the deaths of nine babies in 48 hours. Neither the names of the children -- mostly newborns -- nor the names of their guardians have been disclosed, citing a recent …
MALDA, 23 FEB: At least eight babies died at Malda Medical College and Hospital over the past 24 hours. All but three were born in the hospital, and one had been admitted to the Sick Neonatal Care Unit (SNCU). Bereaved guardians alleged negligence by doctors. "My baby was not seen …
MALDA/BANKURA, 3 FEB: Nine babies at Malda Medical College and Hospital, and 10 babies at Bankura Sammiloni Medical College and Hospital have died in the last 48 hours. In Malda, health officials said the deaths were caused by low birth weights and malnutrition, the same causes they gave for previous …
KOLKATA, 30 JAN: With the recent crib deaths in state-run hospitals causing widespread public anger, the state health department is now blaming socio-economic factors for the high level of infant mortalities. According to senior health officials, many pregnant women in Malda ~ the district that has been the epicentre of …