Residents of ward 129 (Kolkata) have a long list of woes -water scarcity begin the worst of them all. Acute water scarcity has forced residents to buy water and those who cannot afford it turn resort

Mr Nirupam Sen, the West Bengal industry and commerce minister, blamed the tanners for not shifting to Bantala leather complex after 28 February, which was the 'cut-off' date fixed by the Supreme

An exhibition-seminar on Russia's Achievements in Instrumentation and methods for Environmental Monitoring was inaugurated at the Gorky Sadan (Kolkata). The programme gave Indian ecology specialists

Even as a clean up drive of the Darjeeling's famous Sandakphu track trail by some NGOs is on, another prominent environmental organisation of the hills has proposed transferring the waste from the

The West Bengal state irrigation and minor irrigation department decided to increase water tax for the farmers. Mr Amalendralal Roy state irrigation minister, said that 'Everybody agreed to increase

As many as 100 persons have come down with the 'mystery fever' that has raided wards 16 and 17 in the Trinamul controlled Champdani municipality in Hoogly over the past two weeks.

In an incident highlighting the forest department's failure in saving the big cat from poachers, the sawn-off head of a tiger was found in a remote village in the Kalimpong Range of the West Bengal

At a meeting on rural sanitation in Kolkata Mr SS Meenakshi Sundaram, secretary, department of drinking water supply, Union ministry of rural development and Mr RC Panda, joint secretary, discussed

The first even 24- hour malaria clinic in the subcontinent will be inaugurated at Ronald Ross laboratory, in Kolkata, where Sire Ronald had worked and discovered the malaria parasite for which he had

The West Bengal chief minister stressed on the importance of exporting fishes from the state. Though West Bengal was in the top position in fish production, it was lagging behind other states in