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 …
- Six new water bodies to make tuskers feel at home in sanctuary ANKUSH SINGH With the onset of summer, Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary is preparing for the homecoming of three tusker herds that had migrated to the jungles of Midnapore, Bengal, last November. Keen to ensure a comfortable stay for …
HALDIA, March 3: RPG flagship CESC Ltd is setting up a 2,000 MW greenfield thermal power plant in Haldia. The plant will come up in Baneswar Chawk, near Jhikurkhali, East Midnapore district. The first phase ~ to be completed by December, 2011 ~ will generate 600 MW from its two …
Calcutta, Feb. 26: The state cabinet has cleared a deep-water port to be built on reclaimed land, the first of its kind in the country, in the Hooghly river estuary. The port, with a depth of 21 metres, will allow big ships carrying crude and other cargo to offload near …
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today laid a foundation stone of the proposed Rs 3,500-crore integrated steel plant in Purulia district. The project, which will include a power plant, will be implemented jointly by Shyam Industries Ltd and the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC). About 150 acres of …
MIDNAPORE, Feb.12: Potato farmers in West Midnapore district are in dire straits as thousands of hectares of crop land have been hit by a pest epidemic. Due to significant loss incurred by the farmers, they will now face difficulties in repaying their loans. A farmer in Garbeta II block area …
MIDNAPORE, Nov. 6: After a decade long struggle, the tribals in the state are finally benifitting from their traditional rights to the forest land, from which they had been deprived creating strong resentment among them. The tribals of Midnapore West are the first to reap the benefits of the
PANSKURA: Expressing displeasure with the way emergency relief was distributed among the flood-affected people of both Midnapore East and West districts after the recent flash flood, Governor Mr Gopal Krishna Gandhi today asked the district administration of the two districts to ensure proper distribution of relief funds among the actual …
ANSHUMAN PHADIKAR An East Midnapore school still under water. Picture by Jahangir Badsa Tamluk, July 20: More than a month after the floods in East Midnapore, some two lakh people are homeless and over 350 schools shut because they are serving as relief camps. "Hundreds of villages are still under …
Here is some good news for the flood victims. They need not consume polluted water as they used to for days together when their drinking water sources remained submerged in floods. The scientists of the mining engineering department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, have developed a water filter …
a research team has stumbled upon a bug that feasts on arsenic. Present in the root nodules of black gram, the bacteria increases soil fertility and fixes nitrogen. It could be an effective way of bioremediation of arsenic from contaminated soil, says a team of researchers from iit Kharagpur and …
State irrigation minister, Mr Subhas Naskar, today said that repair works of breached or damaged embankments are getting delayed in East and West Midnapore owing to non-availability of earth and lack of proper technology. Mr Naskar was making a statement on the recent floods in East and West Midnapore in …
TAMLUK: Irrigation engineers have run into trouble while attempting to repair the breached river embankments in the flood-affected areas of Midnapore East district due to the non-availability of soil. The flood conditions at a few blocks in this district continue to remain grim because of this. "Our engineers are striving …
TAMLUK: Flood victims caught two ration dealers red-handed while they were illegally transporting food grains for selling in the open-market today. The ration dealers were allegedly enjoying CPI-M patronage. This comes at a time when thousands of people are suffering from improper distribution of relief materials due to the devastating …
Many traditional conservation ethics of people directly or indirectly protect forest patches by dedicating them to local deities. Such forest pockets, referred to as sacred groves, are more or less small to large chunk of traditionally maintained near virgin forests protected on socio cultural grounds. Named differently in different states …
The flood situation in the Purbo and Paschim Medinipur districts of West Bengal showed some improvement on Monday. The death toll climbed to 30 with 19 deaths reported from Paschim Medinipur and the rest from Purbo Medinipur since the floods hit the region last week after heavy rainfall and discharge …
Rattled by the growing anger among the flood-affected people over the relief and rescue operations in East and West Medinipur, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday directed two ministers
Although there has been a temporary let up of rains, the flood situation in the two Medinipur districts remained grim on Friday. While overseeing the flood-hit districts, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya described the flood situation, which claimed 25 lives and affected over 22 lakh people as "unprecedented and alarming". The …
