Last week a female elephant died after being hit by a goods train near Rajabhjatkhawa, Dooars (Siliguri) in Kolkata. this has once again evoked serious concerns over the environmental fall-out of
The average citizen of Kolkata and Howrah are exposed to contaminated drinking water in railway stations, schools and hospitals, a series of studies conducted over the last four months said.
India's first umbilical cord blood transfusion for a thalassaemia patient was performed at a private nursing home here last month. While one family has reason for optimism, another in Uluberia, is
Oil India Limited (OIL) is gearing up to begin a seismic survey of the Brahmaputra river bed between Dibrugarh and Dhemaji districts in the south and north banks respectively. The work on the river
The process of shifting all tanneries in Tangra to the new leather complex at Bantala will be completed in phases less than a year, the Chief Minister of West Bengal said.
The Army and the paramilitary forces were put on alert as the flood situation in the state of Tripura continued to deteriorate for the second day with the swollen Howrah river near the state capital
A group of fishermen in West Bengal has been turning industrial waste and sewage into breeding tanks for fishes. Years of hard work by Mudiali Fishermen's Cooperative Society members and their
Rapid deforestation and an increase in population are destroying the ecological balance of the Sunderbans. On Sunderbans Day, experts and politicians discussed ways to avert the ecological
The death toll from consuming poisonous mushrooms in Darjeeling has risen to 10 with two more deaths here. The condition to 13 others admitted to North Bengal Medical College Hospital is serious,
