Turning down a Union environment ministry directive to stretch the permissible limit for crackers to 125 decibels, the state government has decided to stick to its own parameters. The West Bengal

The toast of America's capital this month is an Indian-American civic official who had been sacked by the city's Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) for exposing dangerous levels of lead poising in

Chief minister Buddhaadeb Bhattacharjee, addressing a meeting of the national executive council of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), unveiled grand plans for the

It is just what the doctor ordered- all the way from Malaysia- for an ailing hospital on strand Road. A healthcare organisation of Southeast Asia has put forward a mega proposal to revive north

The city civic authorities do not have a functional environment wing of their own, though they have undertaken the massive Calcutta environment project with a loan of Rs 1,548 crore from the Asian

Microchips have been implanted in the skin of 11 elephants at the Buxa Tiger Reserve. Project Elephant was launched to prevent the trafficking of animals. "We had implanted microchips in two

The joint parliamentary committee probing pesticide levels in soft drinks has asked Pepsi and Coke to pay substantive tax to the state governments for using groundwater. In its final 300-page report

A Tuesday without taxis is what the Calcutta commuter is bracing for, with operators sticking to their stand of launching an "indefinite" strike to protest the court's Bharat Stage II deadline and

Be warned, a walk on the grounds of the Victoria Memorial Hall will not fill your lungs with fresh air alone. A survey of the grounds by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (PCB) has revealed

A division bench of Calcutta High Court, comprising Chief Justice A.K. Mathur and Justice A.K. Bannerjee, directed the state pollution control board to submit an affidavit "within four weeks" stating

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