The West Bengal government is trying to regain its fame in healthcare, state health minister Dr Surya Kanta Misra said at the inauguration of a spiral CT scan centre at the SSKM Hospital. The
In West Bengal, 49 out of 1000 infants and 68 out of 1000 children aged below five die every year. And the percentages of women and children above the age of 15 who complete basic education are still
It's not just society that isolates AIDS patients. The state exchequer does it too. AIDS patients, many of whom are from poor families, find the prescribed antiretroviral drugs unaffordable. But the
The officials of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board criticised Kolaghat Thermal Power Station engineers for not taking adequate relief measures in the three villages adjacent to the KTPS in
The West Bengal state government will soon prepare a comprehensive disaster management plan for the districts, and has set up an 11 member committee headed by the chief secretary, Mr SN
Water samples from tubewells of big diameters at the Bangla Academy-Rabindra Sadan Nandan complex, West Bengal have shown the presence of coliform bacteria, M-MIC, Mr Pradip Ghosh,
A three member team of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board visited three villages in Kolaghat and Sahid Matangini block to assess water pollution caused by leaky dykes in the Kolaghat Thermal
The West Bengal state government has won praises from the Supreme Court for the good progress in setting up of the common effluent treatment plant at the Bantala leather complex. But its BOT partner
The Supreme Court directed the Centre to release 50 per cent of the cost of constructing a Common Effluent Treatment Plant at the Calcutta Leather Tannery Complex in
