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 …
Forest department asks police to step up vigil at pandals to save egrets and storks from being killed to decorate dhaks Prithvijit Mitra | TNN The flowing white plumes attached to a dhak have come to symbolize Durga puja. But the decoration is obtained through an act of cruelty that …
The last guard wall protecting a habitation of 25,000 people in Malda gave way this evening and the Fulhar rushed into one village after another. The water level in the bazaar at Bhaluka, about 500 metres from the river, was over two feet around 9pm. District officials said it was …
Riverbanks continue to crumble in Malda district with a stretch longer than 1.5km along the Fulhar at Ratua, just 9km from Bhaluka, being threatened anew.
Malda, May 25: The public health engineering (PHE) department has shut down its two arsenic treatment plants at Mathurapur and Kahala near Manikchak as fish have started dying in the Phulhar river. The PHE authorities are clueless why the fish are dying in the river. People living close to the …
The storm that lashed different parts of Malda district yesterday has destroyed mango worth over Rs 15 crore, spoiling completely a season that had already been hit by rainless months.
Malda, May 3: Eight jawans of the railway protection special force have been diagnosed with malignant malaria and kept isolated in a ward of a hospital here. While five jawans were admitted to the isolated ward specially set up at the Malda railway hospital on Saturday, three were brought there …
- 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
Malda, Feb. 10: Warm weather and dense fog over the past three weeks have left mango growers and exporters in Malda district worried as the fruit trees are yet to blossom fully. The mango development officer of the state
OUR CORRESPONDENT Malda, Jan. 1: The state irrigation department in Malda is awaiting permission from the Ganga Flood Control Commission to begin a Rs 33 crore anti-erosion work along the river in the border areas.
Culling will resume in the bird flu-hit areas of Malda tomorrow, two days after the government announced the job was over. Animal resource development director Kamala Kanta Saha, who was here today to see how well the job had been done, saw chickens hopping around, instead.
At least four culling personnel were taken ill during culling and mopping operations in Malda last evening. One of them Mohd Ellius was admitted to the isolation ward for observation. According to the Malda CMOH, Dr Srikanta Roy, Mohd Ellius was suffering from abdominal pain.
Dec. 19: Reports of more chicken deaths from Gajole block reached the authorities in Malda town today when they were planning to wrap up the culling operation in bird flu-hit Narhatta. Gram panchayat pradhan Sahanur Biswas said 6,000 chickens had died in Gajole.
Dec. 18: State animal resources development minister Anisur Rahman asked the people in the state to "learn to live with bird diseases". Mr Rahman feels that in a country like India, outbreak of bird flu is quite but natural and the government also cannot ask the people to stop farming …
The Malda district administration has been told to start culling chickens in Englishbazar block after reports confirmed the presence of the avian flu virus in dead birds, samples of which had been sent to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal. The Bengal animal resources development (ARD) department received …
Bird Flu has hit the state again. This time, it has come back to Malda. Samples of dead birds collected from Malda sent to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal yesterday have tested H5N1 positive. The Centre today apprised the state animal resources development department (ARD) of the …
Over 500 chickens have died since yesterday morning in Budhia village of Malda, even as the district administration has sent blood samples of dead birds to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal for tests. Hasnara Begum, the Narhatta gram panchayat member, said the chicken deaths have created panic …
SURI: Health authorities and animal resources development (ARD) department officials in Birbhum are dreading another bird flu outbreak in the district after abnormal poultry bird deaths were reported from neighbouring Malda district. The health authorities have already instructed the medical superintendents of district hospitals to keep medicine and other equipment …
Has the state learnt any lesson from the previous bird flu outbreak that was termed worst ever in the country? Well, apparently the answer seems a big No. For the animal resources development department (ARD) officials took six days to visit the villages in Malda, where above average mortality of …
