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 …
KENDRAPARA: The State Government has prepared a blueprint to shift 3,000 people from the seaside villages of Satabhaya and Kanhupur under Satabhaya gram panchayat in Rajnagar block. The sea has been eroding vast tracts of land in these villages. District Collector Sishirkanta Panda announced that the Chief Minister had recently …
Oil spill in the Bay of Bengal spells doomsday for breeding of Ridley turtles The worst fears of environmentalists appear to have come true with reports of an oil leak from MV Black Rose, the Mongolian ship that sank off Paradeep coast in Orissa on the 9th of September. The …
RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY and AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO BHUBANESWAR/PARADIP The worst fear appears to have come true. Oil spillage has begun from Black Rose, the cargo ship that sank on September 9 off the Bay of Bengal coast, nearly seven km away from Orissa's Paradip port. The oil leakage threatens to …
Twenty-four hours of incessant rain, caused by a low in the Bay of Bengal, has left hundreds of thousands marooned as some 65 villages in Khulna and Barguna districts inundated, WDB officials said on Saturday, blaming delayed or poor repairs to damaged flood barriers after Cyclone Aila hit the southwest …
SOUDHRITI BHABANI At least 220 Indian scientists and 127 research organisations are joining hands for a massive study to monitor climate change in different parts of the country. Climate change in India has led to a rise in sea levels while storm surges in coastal areas have also become a …
A special report on "Aila", the cyclone that struck on May 25. Now, with 400 km-long embankment breached, people of Sunderbans live with threat of a high tide causing further damage. It calls for a long-term policy on behalf of the islanders for saving the Sunderbans. See Also Report: Boiling …
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Kolkata: A deep depression on the Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and slammed into the coastal belt of West Bengal on Monday, killing at least 23 people and rendering over 150,000 homeless. Cyclone Alia, with wind speed of about 100 km per hour, uprooted trees, disrupted …
The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal developed into a cyclone on Sunday but the weatherman said the storm, which was advancing towards the coast at 70-80km per hour, might miss Calcutta. At 5.30pm, cyclone Aila (name chosen from a list following a convention) was 500km south of Calcutta.
Bangladesh said on Saturday a tropical storm was brewing in the Bay of Bengal and advised ports to hoist warning signals and asked all fishing boats and trawlers not to venture into deep seas. The meteorological department said the storm packing winds up to 50 km (31 miles) per hour …
THE south-west monsoon is set to hit the Kerala coast in the T next 3-4 days but the early arrival of rains may not necessarily translate into an advantage for the country. A low-pressure area currently forming over central Bay of Bengal is seen to be interfering with the forward …
Low-lying Bangladesh risks devastating impacts from rising world sea levels caused by climate change with risks that millions will be forced from their homes this century, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said. She told Reuters that rich nations would have to help the densely populated country of 150 million people, possibly …
Warming of the seas is rerouting monsoon THE monsoon winds are avoiding India for one-third of the months of July and August and taking a route south of its peninsula. This is because the winds have found a highly attractive low pressure region in the eastern part of the Indian …
Thiruvananthapuram: Satellite data from the US National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA) and a new modelling approach could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop. About 15 percent of the world's tropical cyclones occur in the northern Indian Ocean, but because of high population densities along …
The National Disaster Management Authority, New Delhi, and the Regional Meteorological Centre, Kolkata, today issued a caution stating that a cyclonic storm could hit coastal parts of the state in the next 48 hours. The cyclonic trough, named Bijli, formed over the west central part of the Bay of Bengal, …
- Bangladesh advised ports to hoist cautionary signals and asked all fishing boats and trawlers not to venture into deep seas as a tropical storm brewed in the Bay of Bengal, the meteorological department said on Wednesday. The storm packing winds up to 50 km (31 miles) was 1,135 km …
Unfortunately this poor country is probably the most disaster prone in the world. Rapid growth in population and a slow rate of growth of the economy have forced a substantial part of the ever increasing population to settle in areas too risky for human habitation. A large number of new …
