The Metro railway's proposed extension from Tollygunge to Garia, running 10 months behind schedule, if faced with a new problem. The metro authorities had planned to work round the clock to make up

Flouting a High Court order, structures of Durga images are being dumped into the Ganga and other rivers during immersions in Calcutta and other districts. The West Bengal Pollution Control Board

Several police stations in the city have been found to be fertile breeding ground for malarial mosquitoes making the men in uniform potential targets of malaria. A joint study by the Kolkata Police

A centrally sponsored project will be taken up soon to conduct research on minimising the effect of fluoride on animals in surrounding areas of Nalco smelter plant at Angul in Orissa.Officials said

The two chained elephants Shanti and Bunty, in their 20s, survive only on banana leaves. Officials at the Darjeeling Wildlife claim the female pachyderms, presently 'jobless' were rescued when they

The environment department will study the environment status of industries in the state to make a map of polluting units. Mr Manab Mukerjee, state environment minister, said we will study the

Kendrapara district (Orissa) administration has demolished unauthorised prawn farms spread across 11000 acres of reserve forest land. The demolition drive came in the wake up a directive of the

Officials of a circus suspect that the death of one of their tigers could be because of anthrax. The 18 year old tiger, suffering from fever, died in Burdwan town(West Bengal)afternoon.

Animal sacrifice continues unabated with reports of goats and other animals being offered to Goddess Durga trickling in from different parts of Orissa. But neither the district administrations nor

The West Bengal state forests department will conduct a tiger census in the Sundarbans from 7-14 December. Besides forest officials, representatives of various NGOs and experts from the Zoological