After failing to curb the poaching of Royal Bengal Tigers in the Sunderbans, the West Bengal state forest department and the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve has recently hit upon a "unique" idea to track

The Centre and State Government have signed an agreement with the United Nations Development Programme for implementating a natural disaster risk management project. The main purpose of the programme

The West Bengal state government has granted Rs 20,000 to the next of kin of the 20 who died when heavy rains and landslides hit Darjeeling last week, state relief minister Mr HA Sairani said in the

The West Bengal state forest department will resist the implementation of the proposed East-West Corridor with all its might in order to save the forestlands and wildlife of north Bengal, especially

The West Bengal Pollution control Board has asked some companies manufacturing soft drinks and mineral water to destroy plasitc bottles after use. The PCB has taken this step for the first time

The KMC's monsoon tree planting programme, kicked off with much fanfare on World Environment Day on 5 June, has hit a hurdle. The problem foxing civic authorities is that for the first time theyhave

An eco-tourism conservation camp along with an eco-museum, the first of its kind in the Sunderbans reserve Forest area, will be inaugurated on 15 July by state forest minister Mr Yogesh Barman. A

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Kolkata Improvement Trust have locked horms over the disposal of garbage from Rabindra Sarovar, in the sourthern part of the city. As a result, the national lake

Most waterbodies in the Calcutta city are polluted, according to a recent study conducted by the environment department. The department has conducted three separate analyses of waterbodies located

The Bench of the Chief Justice, Mr AK Mathur, and Mr Justice AK Banerjee of the High Court directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board to make a complete survey of the discharge points of sewage