Fire crackers with sound levels of above 90 decibels at five metres from the blast-point have been banned by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board. People can burst crackers and display fireworks

About 300 Jharkhand Party cadres, including some women, ransacked the office of the forest range officer at Bholabheda in Delpahari of Jhargram subdivision. The Jharkhandis allegedly manhandled the

Sankho Silpa Bachao Committee, an organisation of conch shell traders will meet Mr Buddhadev Bhattacharya to protest against the Centre's decision to ban fishing of conch shells, Mr Indrajit Nandy,

The sound of the conch shells may no longer be heard as often in temples and homes during pujas and other auspicious occasions because of ban imposed by the Union ministry of environment and forests

Illegal fishing and degradation of habitat are pushing the shark population in Orissa towards the verge of extinction. The Wildlife Society of Orissa has urged the state to prevent the ' widespread

The country's first institute of excellence for arsenic mitigation is coming up in Salt Lake. The Union rural development ministry will provide funds to set up the institute. It will be run by an

In New Alipore and other parts of South Kolkata, as Mudiali and Lake Avenue, trees of all sizes are being felled. Trees are also being felled at places around flyover construction sites, specially in

Progress of the upgradation and expansion of health infrastructure in the Orissa through the World Bank-funded Orissa Health Services Development Project was found to be far from satisfactory.

The West Bengal Chief Minister's pledges about the state's industrial ghetto, Haldia, may sound promising. But the town's only convenient connection with the city, at least for industrialists and

Malaria is stalking the Rajabhatkhawa area of the Dooars. Five people have died of the killer disease in the past one month and the death toll is now over