The Sunderban Development Board will receive technical assistance from the Asian Development Bank for a survey to asses the need for conservation and livelihood requirements, so that a master plan

The Supreme Court granted permission to the West Bengal government to construct two modules of the Combined Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) at the Calcutta Leather Complex.

The Greater Calcutta Gas Supply Corporation has put the cart before the horse. It has installed a pressure reducing station at Dankuni without laying the main pipeline for the supply of coal gas.

Sewage from the Rajarhat new township (West Bengal) will be discharged into the east Kolkata wetlands and not into the Krishnapur canal as earlier planned. The decision was taken by Hidco after

The West Bengal Renewable Energy Development AGency will start a wind-diesel hybrid plant to generate electricity in Sagar Island next week. The unit winmill will function in adequate wind and will

Teachers at well-known colleges and universities in Kolkata city say lack of adequate protective gear while working with hazardous chemicals exposes teachers, students and research scholars to the

The West Bengal government must stop dumping fly ash on wetlands under Bilkanda gram panchayat in the Ghola area of North 24 Parganas.This was states in a directive by the appellate authority in a

Jahangir Hossain is suffering from arsenic poisoning. At home in Rajapur in Domkal (West Bengal) he has already lost 18 of hid family members to arsenicosis over the past two decades. In neighbouring

The West Bengal government has decided to set up a state medicinal plant board to protect and promote ayurvedic plants. The board to be headed by the chief minister, will have 21 members who will be

The Union Ministry of environment and forests has proposed common supervision of the activities of the Zoological Survey of India, Botanical Survey of India and the Forest Survey of India and a