A report prepared at the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health again confirms that groundwater in many parts of the city is contaminated with arsenic. "The study proves that

Calcutta Municipal Corporation will take a loan of Rs 150 crore to implement water supply projects in the city. For the first time, the civic body will hire the services of a merchant banker to get

Private firms will be given contracts to clean government hospitals. This was announced by West Bengal health minister, Mr Partha Dey, after a meeting with hospital superintendents, presided over by

The West Bengal government announced a solid waste management plan under which municipalities will be asked to buy land to be used as dumping grounds.

The district health administration in Asansol has finally taken serious note of the recent spurt in malarial cases in the coal and steel areas of

The West Bengal state government told private hospitals, diagnostic centres and nursing homes, set up with state help, to give 20 to 30 per cent discount to the poor patients or provide them with

The West Bengal public health engineering minister, Mr Gautam Deb, will inaugurate the country's first technology park on arsenic removal devices at Baruipur, South

Calcutta High Court has directed the Central and West Bengal Pollution Control Boards to jointly inspect the entire Haldia area to find out if any industry was creating any health hazard. The

An all party delegation will meet the Union minister for rural development, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, in Delhi to request him to sanction funds to combat the arsenic menace in Calcutta. The state

Forest officials cut off the tusks of a rouge elephant at Hamirhati under Sonamukhi range in Bankura (West Bengal).After the rouge was tranquilised its tusks were chopped off both as a protective