Sewage and drainage lines in sxi KMC boroughs, including five in Kolkata's added areas, will be upgraded thanks to a lona from the Asian Development Bank. The work will be undertaken as part of the
Most sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Kolkata and its suburbs, commissioned under the Ganga Action Plan, are either unutilised or non-funcitonal. This is the finding of a joint survey by the central
Political leaders of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland today adopted the "Gauhati Declaration" for accelerating the development of an AIDS vaccine in the region. The declaration, called at the initiative
In recent times, West Bengal has become highly endemic for the transmission of wild polio virus. A series of Sub National Immunisation Day (SNIDs) and National Immunisation Day (NIDs) have been
The West Bengal state government might have patted itself on the back of having reduced air pollution 'substantially', but a survey of the city's ambient air quality by the National Environmental
Shipping agents of the ill-fated MV Segitiga Biru have informed Coast Guard and port authorities that they will reach Haldia, West Bengal. As part of pollution control measures, a state-of-the-art
It took the Kolkata Municipal Corporation three years to wake up to the fact that the Municipal Solid Waste Rules, framed by the ministry of environmental affairs in 2000, have to be abided by with
The West Bengal plans yet another retrograde step against trams. Rejecting pleas from activists who want to give trams a special status as a vintage environment-friendly tansport mode that is still
The Salt Lake Municipality and the West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Authority will soon launch a project for power generation from garbage. This joint venture project is one of the
