The People for Animals, a NGO has claimed that carcasses of over 500 Oilve Ridley sea turles were found strewn near Gahirmatha in Orissa last week. The NGO that undertook a survey after reports of

Six persons have died of malignant malaria in Kolkata last month. Mr Pratyush Mukherjee the state health minister said that last month about 35000 blood slides were examined in the city of which more

To check smuggling of timber from reserve forests, the West Bengal forest department is drawing up a multi-crore rupees economic regeneration scheme for the poor living in the fringe areas of forests

The health department of Kolkata Muncipal Corporation unveiled its micro area malaria control strategy in form of a computer data-base after extensive surveys in three of KMC's

While the Kolkata Muncipal Corporation decides to spend money funding inane projects like determining the number of people using mosquito nets in select wards of the city, its own malaria control

Too many reforms at one go. The result ought to be chaos. And so it is the Calcutta's leading government hospitals. Superintendents have given up because they have no formal government order. Even if

Local farmers are suspected to have poisoned three elephants to death to protect their standing crops and huts from the rampaging herds in Haleshwar and Teliajan villages in Assam last month. Earlier

The special officer of Calcutta High Court's Green bench Mr Gitanath Gangulay, threatened to complain to the Chief Minister against police for their failure to prevent bursting of banned crackers,

Heightened security on both sides of the India-Nepal border along the Mechi river has cut back the movement of criminals. It has also put rakes on the movement of elephant of elephants through this

The Tripura state health authorities are worried over the manner in which the usual medicines for malaria have been proved in effective with the disease, which has taken an epidemic form in Tripura's