KOLKATA: To measure the effect of climate change on the flora and fauna of Sundarbans, the Zoological Survey of India has set up monitoring bases inside the mangrove forests.

KOLKATA: The National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone bench), on Wednesday, directed the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to demolish a four-storied building at Gadkhali in the

KOLKATA: A fish hospital — the first of its kind in the country — will become operational in Kolkata in two-three months.

BURDWAN: Even as the state government has started a crackdown on illegal sand mining along Damodar, three Trinamool Congress supporters were killed in alleged intra-party clashes in Burdwan's Wari

KOLKATA: The state land and land reforms department has issued guidelines for regularization and operation of all existing and new brick kilns in the state to prevent illegal operation of brick kil

KOLKATA: In a bid to boost the "industry friendly" image of the state before chief minister Mamata Banerjee's London visit slated for July, the environment department has made the green clearance p

KOLKATA: On the eve of World Environment Day, environmentalists slammed the state pollution control board for deliberately sidestepping issues related to environment and pollution.

The Kolkata bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) headed by Justice Pratap Kumar Ray last week show-caused 70 hotel owners of Tarapith as they were operating without the approval of the state poll

North Bengal's Buxa Tiger reserve has survived another scare.

To take forward Rajarhat New Town as a smart city, the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) is planning to set up the country's first underground solid waste collection network in