The death of 56 children in four blocks of Murshidabad still remains a mystery. The director of health services, however, has claimed that malnutrition and ascaris have caused the deaths. According

An East Midnapore district health department report prepared after the 1 June pulse polio campaign, mentions that more than 34,000 children of the district in West Bengal have never been administered

The new integrated fish farming policy framed with the objective to augment the state's fish production, allows the farmer to carry out fish farming during monsoon on the same land where paddy is

It's 11 days since a mysterious disease broke out in Lalgola, Murshidabad, West Bengal taking the lives of 36 children in four villages. The disease is yet to be diagnosed though experts suspect it

The dispute between the state fisheries department and the West Bengal state forest department over fishing in Jambudwip was settled after the intervention of the chief minister. It was decided that

A borer pest, commonly known as the "Pakistan bug", has badly hit trees in western Rajasthan, resulting in the large scale mortality of Khejri trees one of the most precious xerophyte trees of

The flora of the world's largest mangrove forests, the Sunderbans, is fast depleting. This is a matter of grave concern, observed ecologists who assembled to raise awareness among people. They also

Mrs Mala Roy, member, mayor-in-council, will write to the municipal commissioner, Mr Debashish Som, and the mayor, Mr Subrata Mukherjee asking them to adhere to the recommendations of the expert

About seven per cent of children below the age of five in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation areas are yet to be immunised under the pulse polio immunisation drive. Stating this today, and adding that

People from different parts of the country used to vist Rajhat to see the national bird roam freely as in Rajasthan. But the situation is quite different today and the peacocks in Rajhat are dying