The National Green Tribunal's Kolkata bench headed by Justice Pratap Kumar Roy has asked for closure of all stone-mining activities in Bengal's Birbhum and Jharkhand's Pakur.

Following the Calcutta high court order to the state government to demolish 14 unauthorized constructions in the East Kolkata wetlands and submit a compliance report by October 9, the state officia

The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Eastern Zone Bench, on Monday, directed the chief secretary to file a report on the arsenic situation in West Bengal.

KOLKATA: Encouraged over the success of replanting tall trees, The West Bengal Waste Land Development Corporation (WBWLDC) will develop a 'tall tree nursery' over 5 acre of land at Rajarhat New Tow

KOLKATA: The National Green Tribunal, Eastern Zone Bench, on Tuesday, served notices to the ministries of petroleum and environment and forests, seeking to know why petrol pumps should not adopt a

KOLKATA: The Hooghly riverfront in Kolkata will get a makeover with World Bank sanctioning funds under the National Ganga River Basin Project scheme.

A petition has been filed in the Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) after its judicial member Justice Pratap Ray expressed concern over the article 'Arsenic Level Sounds Death

Subrata Mukherjee, Bengal's minister for panchayat and public health engineering department launched -- Pran Dhara -- a packaged drinking water which is cheaper than any other bottled water.

Lauding the people of Darjeeling for their initiative to make the Queen of Hills clean and green, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today announced that 50,000 toilets would be built in th

KOLKATA: To track the movement of tigers and encroachers in protected forest areas, a drone would soon be flying in the Sundarban delta.