No new permits will be issued for autorickshaws in West Bengal. This was decided at a meeting last evening between officials of the transport department, public vehicles department and the traffic

If the Left Front government feels sorry for the farmers in drought-hit Purulia district (West Bengal) it can only blame itself. The situation in Purulia would have been different had the nine

Nandigram-II block in Midnapore district in West Bengal is the first in the country to achieve hundred per cent sanitation coverage. Dr Surya Kanti Misra minister of health and panchayats, conferred

Mashaharpara, 10 kilometer away from the district headquarters in West Bengal, has continuously been stalked by poverty, disease and death in the last few years. Two years ago a disease broke out in

The Kolkatta Municipal Corporation had to stop uprooting trees along Manohar Das Tarang at Esplanade following the intervention of the Army, theM-MIC, Mr Hridayananda Gupta said. A portion of the

The West Bengal state government has urged the Centre to prepare a master-plan to protect areas in Malda and Murshidabad districts from floods and erosion. The chief minister said that he has

The West Bengal state health department has been able to conduct medical audits on only 40 per cent of patients' medical records in state hospitals against a target of 75 per cent set some three

Officials of the health and conservancy department of Darjeeling municipality (West Bengal) have expressed concern over dumping of hospital waste in public vats. A senior official of the state health

Slaughter of chicken goats and sheep in public areas, particularly pavements will be prohibited from early next month in all municipal markets in West

One of the oldest parts of central Kolkata, ward 51 comprising Raja Subodh Mullick Square, Creek Row, Gokul Boral Street and its precincts is generally speaking, far better-maintained than most other

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