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 …
. 20,000-cr project was put on a backburner after demand for steel got affected due to recession in 2008 After three years of shilly-shallying, a business group looks set to give wide-eyed villagers in Salboni in West Bengal their first factory and the state its largest industrial project in years. …
HALDIA, 28 OCT: The state government has agreed to allot 350 acres to Mr Prasoon Mukherjee-promoted Universal Success Enterprises (USE) for setting up an industrial park and eco-tourism infrastructure at Nayachar, an island on the Hooghly river off Haldia in East Midnapore. Of the 350 acres, the state government has …
Calcutta, Oct. 28: The government is likely to seek written commitments on compensation and rehabilitation for land losers from the JSW Group for its proposed steel and power plants in West Midnapore’s Salboni. The company had announced that apart from cash, it would give free shares and a job to …
Amphibians watched the dinosaurs come and go, but today almost half of them are threatened with extinction. In 2010, Zoological Survey of India has documented a total of 311 amphibian species in India. Out of these 46 amphibian species are found in all 19 districts of West Bengal.
Ranchi, Sept. 28: The Jharkhand and Bengal governments have agreed to set up a joint committee to monitor the release of Subernarekha and Kharkai waters and minimise flood threats. The Bengal government is also ready to pay its share of funds, around Rs 19.5 crore, for the interstate Subernarekha Multipurpose …
Chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today urged the residents of low-lying areas to move to safer places in view of the forecast of heavy rains and release of water from DVC and Chandil barrages. The chief secretary, Mr Samar Ghosh, too, will hold deliberations with irrigation secretaries of Orissa and …
JHARGRAM, 14 SEPT: Two spotted deer, one monkey and a camel died of infectious tuberculosis at Jhargram Deer Park in West Midnapore in the past two days. A culture of the lung tissue of the dead animals revealed tuberculosis bacilli, typed as M. Tuberculosis on the basis of standard bio-chemical …
Calcutta, Sept. 5: The government has decided to use a “major portion” of World Bank funds for the preservation of Bengal’s coastline to develop and beautify the East Midnapore beach resorts of Digha and Shankarpur. Environment minister Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar said today that the World Bank would give Rs 300 …
Following the commissioning of Tertiary treatment plant at IOCL, Haldia, Doshion Limited has changed the outlook of the petrochem industry towards waste water management. One of its kind in the world, this plant recycles waste water to feed high pressure boiler thus nullifying the myth that waste can't be as …
While asserting that there could be “no compromise” on ensuring the highest safety standards for nuclear reactors, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday emphasised the importance of nuclear power. “We are in the process of expanding our civil nuclear energy programme. Even as we do so, we have to ensure …
Kolkata Heavy rainfall has led to floods in several districts of the state, putting the rice crop in West Bengal in jeopardy. Although the state was hopeful of reaching record production in 2011-12 backed by good rainfall in the first half of the monsoon, prolonged rain has inundated vast areas …
Just three days after the West Bengal government declared in the Assembly that it would oppose all nuclear plants in the state, including the proposed one at Haripur in East Midnapore district, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee — on Sunday said nuclear …
KOLKATA, 19 AUG: Four more persons died today in West Midnapore and Malda taking flood-related death toll to 40 even as the meteorological department predicted heavy rainfall in the state over the next 24 hours. Though the flood situation has marginally improved in south Bengal districts, the threat of devastation …
KOLAGHAT, 9 AUG: The city may have got their plates full with delicious hilsa this season, but they are missing out on the much sought-after Kolaghat special. Pollution in the Rupnarayan river and monsoon troughs are not enticing the hilsas to come ashore. Mr Surojit Bag, additional director of fisheries …
Calcutta, Aug. 7: The hospital chain run by cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty has submitted a detailed proposal to the Mamata Banerjee government for the development of crucial infrastructure now missing in rural hospitals. The blueprint proposes to set up dialysis units, diagnostic laboratories, cardiac catheterisation laboratories and coronary care units …
KOLKATA, 5 AUG: The Jindal Group's upcoming multi-crore steel plant at Salboni in West Midnapore has hit a roadblock with the state government today making it clear that the project can move forward only after a go ahead from the state land department. Emerging out of a two-hour long meeting …
DIGHA, 5 AUG: If everything goes according to plan, a modern and hygienic fish market will soon be established at Digha Mohana in East Midnapore. The state fisheries department has come up with a plan to build a new market complex with parking facilities on two acres of land at …
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. …
Calcutta, July 26: The Bengal government has sought a status report from the Jindals on their proposed steel plant at Salboni in West Midnapore. “We have asked them to submit a status report,” state industries minister Partha Chatterjee said. “We want to know how they have utilised the land so …
To preserve the product, dry fish traders in Digha, Junput, Bankiput and Bhogpur in East Midnapore ~ widely regarded as hubs of dry fish production ~ have begun using highly toxic pesticides and a preservative that have been found hazardous to human health. To put an end to the menace, …
