Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Subhas Datta Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 20/01/2025. The application filed by Subhas Datta alleged failure of the authorities to prevent pollution and encroachment of Saraswati river passing through Hooghly and Howrah districts …
The West Bengal government on Wednesday reported four more deaths in the 15 flood-affected districts of the State, taking the death toll to 62. An ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh has been announced for the families of the deceased. An amount of Rs 1.24 crore has been allotted to the …
KOLKATA, 23 AUG: The death toll in floods jumped to 58 today with eight more deaths being reported from four districts over the past 24-hours and flood situation in south Bengal districts remaining grim. Flood situation is likely to worsen tomorrow if the meteorological department's prediction of “heavy to very …
Mamata Banerjee with farmers after the Singur Bill was passed in the State Assembly in Kolkata on June 14. WITH the passage of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill, 2011, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee got one step closer to keeping the promise made to the people of …
KOLKATA, 26 JULY: The railways’ engineering public sector undertaking (PSU), RITES, is set to push new boundaries with Kolkata's Hooghly riverfront development project. The pilot project, which is slated to be kicked off by chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee on 2 August, will use hot-rolled steel sheet piling technology to …
Compelled by the incessant downpour in the Jharkhand catchment areas, the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) would discharge water at the rate of 50,000 cusec from its Maithon reservoir by early tomorrow.
KOLKATA, 19 JUNE: A high-power monitoring committee was constituted by the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, today to monitor the flood-like situation in parts of south Bengal. She has also asked officials to set up a control room at Writers
Residents of New Town Rajarhat will organise a convention on 2 July to protest against unplanned planning of Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) that has led to acute drinking water crisis in the area. Most of the tube-wells in vast areas surrounding the New Town, including Baguiati, Raghunathpur and …
KOLKATA, 14 FEB: Alarmed at the detection of a fresh polio case in the state in the midst of intensified campaign against the diseases the state government has been compelled to conduct a polio immunisation drive in selected five districts, including Kolkata. Officials said the polio immunisation drive has been …
Chinsurah: Police today stopped work on a portion of the rail land in Dankuni where water bodies are allegedly being filled up without the state government
KOLKATA: The West Bengal Fisheries Department has lodged an FIR against the Railways for alleged illegal filling up of a segment of the wetlands for a project coming up at Dankuni in Hooghly district.
Tiger Spring, the container vessel which ran aground on the eastern bank of the Hooghly river following collision with another container vessel, Green Valley, on Tuesday, was carrying several boxes of hazardous materials. According to informed sources, the vessel was carrying 60 tonnes of IMO Class 9 and another 4.6 …
Tamluk/Gadiara, Nov. 23: Two container vessels today collided, apparently after one of them went adrift because of a snag, in a narrow stretch of the Hooghly where tide travails compound the space problem. The 33 sailors of the two ships are safe but both vessels were damaged and started spilling …
A thick film of oil spreads on the waters in the Hooghly after a collision between cargo ships at Nurpur in South 24 Parganas district on Tuesday. NURPUR (SOUTH 24 PARGANAS DISTRICT): A cargo vessel on its way to the Kolkata port rammed another such ship bound for Colombo on …
KOLKATA, 31 OCT: The $28.9 million capacity building project on identification and remediation of contaminated hazardous waste dumpsites in the state funded by the World Bank and implemented by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) has made several officials of the board uncomfortable as it questions their competence. A …
The Farakka Barrage Project on river Ganga, commissioned in the year 1975, mainly for diversion of 1135 cumec flow of water from river Ganga to river Hoogly through Bhagirathi, for the preservation of Kolkata Port. River Ganga due to its meandering nature is causing bank erosion problems not only in …
Calcutta, July 25: The railway ministry has started the process of giving jobs to people who have lost land because of railway projects. The Railway Board has issued a formal directive to zonal railways to consider job applications from landlosers.
KOLKATA, 5 JULY: The Rail India Technical & Economic Services (Rites), a Union government undertaking, will sign an MoU with Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) and KMC on 9 July for beautification of the Hooghly river front, said Miss Mamata Banerjee, railway minister. KoPT will set up a new port at …
BALAGARH, 4 JULY: Hundreds of people in the Balagarh block of Hooghly, whose villages are close to the river Hooghly, have been having sleepless nights ever since the river started eroding its embankments. Mr Khudiram Das (70), a resident of Sundarpur village in Somra I gram panchayat, said they have …
