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, 29 OCT: The state government today finally issued the order for paying compensation of Rs 1 lakh each to the injured victims of the police firing at Nandigram of 14 March, 2007. However, in a transparent bid to make it appear that state government had taken the decision prior …
The 10,000-MW nuclear power projects at seven sites, including Haripur in East Midnapore, has been approved by Centre and the work of setting up the reactors can be started very soon with the help of Russia, said Mr Srikumar Banerjee, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission today. He was speaking …
While promising to release a sum of Rs 500 crore to keep the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) running in West Bengal at the earliest, the team from the Union rural development ministry that met the state panchayat minister today forced the state to frame a policy …
TAMLUK, 27 SEPT: With Alimudding Street busy with the upcoming Assembly polls, closer home the CPI-M has been accused of misappropriating government funds by supplying poor quality potatoes through the public distribution system across the state, including Midnapore East district. This has been revealed after the state government announced the …
KOLKATA, 26 Sept: Encouraged by the Supreme Court order which instructed the Centre to distribute foodgrain free of cost to the poor instead of allowing it to rot in storehouses, civil rights groups are going to hold demonstrations outside the FCI godowns across the south Bengal districts, including Left-wing extremism-affected …
The Union minister of state for shipping, Mr Mukul Roy, today said the 2,000 acre land needed for the deeper draft port at Sagar Islands would be acquired by land reclamation. He was speaking at the meeting organised by the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industries here. He said …
Sept. 17: The Centre today announced a diesel subsidy of up to Rs 500 per hectare to farmers in drought-hit Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand to help them irrigate their fields.
The current drought situation in the state has brought in a change in the political scenario of Lalgarh. With hunger looming large, the CPM has managed to regain lost ground with the help of government-sponsored schemes. The civil administration is also looking at reclaiming remote villages with a human face. …
WEST Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee came down heavily on the Centre on Tuesday for not releasing funds to his government to implement the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in the state and said that the state had to suffer a lot for this. The chief minister also described …
Jhargram Forest Division has been surveyed for the availability and uses of ethno veterinary medicinal plants. A total of 96 plant species has been identified as ethno veterinary medicinal plants used in traditional animal health care. These 96 plants belong to 54 families and 89 genera occupying different habit groups …
Paschim Medinipur district is the worst affected by the drought that has hit 11 districts of West Bengal, said Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee after a meeting with officials in Midnapore on Monday.Mr. Bhattacharjee, who has been visiting some of the drought-hit districts in south Bengal over the past three days, …
KOLKATA, 18 AUG: The state government's decision to identify certain districts as drought-hit has raised a howl of protest even within the Cabinet, with Mr Srikumar Mukherjee, the minister from CPI, pointing out that the state was making its decisions based on average rainfall received by a district instead of …
TAMLUK, 17 AUG: The CPI-M ruled state government may not have included Midnapore East in the list of drought-hit districts, but this area too is facing severe drought-like situation with 18 out of 25 blocks receiving more than 35 percent deficit in rainfall this monsoon. The Trinamul Congress has demanded …
Ananya DuttaKOLKATA: The threat of a drought looms over several parts of West Bengal because of inadequate rainfall which could have serious repercussions on paddy production, Minister for Agriculture Naren Dey said here on Thursday.
The state housing department will construct more houses for people belonging to lower income groups in the hills, the minister for housing and public health engineering, Mr Gautam Deb, said today. He was answering a question raised by Opposition MLAs in the Assembly. Mr Deb said he had asked the …
Long-term pumping tests were carried out on Kasai river bed in connection with augmentation of existing water supply of Kharagpur Municipal town in the district of Midnapore (West), West Bengal to cater to the need of growing population as well as industrial units.
