Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Salboni Apartment Owner’s Association Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 15/05/2025. The matter related to restoration of the Salboni Jheel, Kolkata, West Bengal. The NGT directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board to place …
Developers dejected as govt rules out repeal of Urban Land Ceiling Act The promise of Ma, Mati, Manush governance by Mamata Banerjee may fall short of the second M-word, meaning land — at least for real estate developers in the state’s capital city. For, the West Bengal government has now …
India's first genetically engineered (GE) drought-resistant rice variety has been developed in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. The University of Calcutta developed the rice having drought tolerant features and its field-trials would be conducted within two-three years, a top official of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) said here. …
Tremors were felt along India’s entire eastern coast after a powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake and a series of strong aftershocks struck off the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra Wednesday afternoon, triggering fears of a devastating 2004-type tsunami across the Indian Ocean region. Indonesia said it was checking for damage and …
U.N. report says China, India together will account for about third of the increase in urban population in coming decades India will witness the largest increase in urban population in the next four decades followed by China, a United Nations report has said. India will add another 497 million to …
Life in India’s IT capital comes at a premium. The average cost of living in Bangalore is higher than in other Indian cities, reveals an analysis of the latest consumer price index (CPI) figures issued by the Reserve Bank of India. CPI — which measures a standard basket of items …
* Nominal increase in rail fares after 9 years; Fair up by 5 paise per kilo metre in sleeper class. * For express trains, hike of 3 paise per kilometre. * 10 to 20 paise hike in tickets fares. * Better SMS-based booking. * 75 new passenger trains. * Platform …
Three more cities are switching over to Bharat Stage (BS)-4 emission norms from Thursday. These cities are Ankaleshwar in Gujarat, Hisar in Haryana and Bharatpur in Rajasthan. Already 13 cities, including Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Surat, Kanpur, Agra, Lucknow and Solapur are implementing the BS-4 …
KOLKATA, 28 FEB: Some of the flora over portions of the 273 acres of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Gardens are not getting their share of underground water. In all, 24 interconnected lakes and water bodies dotting this sprawling botanical gardens are in a state of disrepair despite an order …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests has ordered another study on the impact of electromagnetic radiation from cell phone towers on avian population. Following the crow mystery in Kolkata and recently in Orissa, where crows dropped dead in large numbers, the Ministry has ordered a post-mortem and also a study …
State food and supplies minister Jyotipriya Mullick today said the substandard iron-ore supplied in the Rs 139-crore scam in the state-owned Essential Commodities Supply Corporation in connection with which two of the state's top IAS officials have been arrested had been kept in godowns owned by the former Haldia strongman …
KOLKATA, 8 FEB: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation will allow parking for a maximum 180 cars on Park Street and the stretch on Jawaharlal Nehru Road opposite Oberoi Grand, the member, mayor-in-council in-charge of drainage, Rajib Deb, said today. The decision has been taken for faster movement of traffic along Park …
KOLKATA, 6 FEB: Kolkata Municipal Corporation will set up a separate cell comprising borough executive officers to oversee development work that are carried out in the slums, member, mayor-in-council (health and bustee), Mr Atin Ghosh, said today. The new cell will prepare a list of the amount spent on slums. …
Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi), is a major health problem especially in developing countries. Vaccines against typhoid are commonly used by travelers but less so by residents of endemic areas. The researchers used single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) typing to investigate the population structure of 372 …
The AMRI crime is an example of how public safety is being repeatedly compromised. More specifically, it demonstrated the dismal trend of healthcare services being offered by “super specialty care” in public-private partnerships, which has raised the cost of medical treatment to exorbitant levels and deprived the poor of even …
Against the backdrop of Kolkata’s AMRI’s tragedy, EPW’s diagnosis and the preventive measures that have been suggested are appropriate and logical (“Playing with Lives”, EPW, 31 December 2011). But will the authorities learn from the past? The smaller cities which are growing fast without proper planning are more vulnerable to …
In the New Year, Mamata Banerjee’s government is finally in the process of readying its first formal sop for attracting investment in the state, seven months after she assumed charge of West Bengal. The government led by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is currently putting final touches to a proposal. This, …
Voluntary donor selection and screening of donor’s blood for infective agents are the cornerstones of transfusion medicine. Strict donor selection criterion, proper counselling and deferred collection may reduce wastage of resources. During the period of 01.01.2007 to 31.12.2008, a total number of 44,173 units of blood were collected from healthy …
One of the vital activities in an urban area is transport. However it also contributes to air pollution, noise pollution and road traffic accidents. Congestion, vibration, community severance and visual intrusion are other transport related problems. Air quality on the city of Kolkata (a metro city of India) seems to …
Mumbai Adani Power, part of the Adani Group with interests in ports and coal trading, has decided to build 6,500-megawatt power plants only after it signs longer tenure power purchase agreements (PPAs) and sources necessary coal, a senior official from Adani told newspersons on Tuesday. “We have decided that 80-85% …
“80 per cent of school students are getting less than eight hours of sleep on school days” Children aged between 10 and 18 are spending an average of six to seven hours a day using some kind of electronic device in big cities. This can lead to negative outcomes such …
