The validity of a project for desiltation of vital canals is being questioned as it has been found that waste is drained into these canals from 59 points in the city and the slaughter house at Palmer
With an average duty-span of eight hours a day, traffic policemen are clearly one of the worst hit by vehicular pollution in Kolkata city. A traffic personnel on duty at eh Tollygunge Circular Road
West Bengal has performed alarmingly on polio imunisation this year. Figures presented to the city Mayor, Mr Subrata Mukherjee, by polio project officials of WHO, Unicef and Rotary Club this
Canals in Kolkata the Tolly Nullah and the Beliaghata Circular Canal, in particular, which are being desilted following eviction of shanty dwellers along their sides now face a new threat. Mr
Four people died of an unknown disease and more than 100 were affected in four villages of Naoda block (West Bengal). The health department however confirmed only two deaths in six days. The affected
The West Bengal state health department's composure at not having found a single confirmed SARS patient in Kolkata may not last long. For, if the cause of composure dies out, the department may find
The West Bengal Government through its counsel submitted a draft Bill, called the West Bengal Trees (Protection and Conservation in Non-forest Areas) Act 2003, before the Division Bench of the Chief
In a blow to wildlife conservation in West Bengal, a project to survey dolphins in Sunderbans has been cancelled by the forest department because the state
Over 200 trees were uprooted in Nor'wester, the highest toll in a single storm in the last two years. Over 100 trees were uprooted in Gobra Burial Grounds alone by winds blowing at 120 km an hour.
