With national attention held by investigations into illegal mining in Karnataka, greater loot of higher quality iron ore in eastern India and the diversity of associated corruption have gotten shor
Bird flu has resurfaced in West Bengal with poultry samples from five gram panchayats of Tehatta I block in Nadia district testing positive for H5N1 (avian influenza) at the High Security Animal Di
The state disaster management department would struggle to cope with an earthquake on the scale of Sunday’s temblor near the Sikkim-Nepal border, said the minister in charge, Javed Ahmed Khan, on M
KOLKATA, 19 SEPT: The state food and supplies department has decided to introduce digitised ration cards and computerise the entire public distribution system (PDS) to prevent forgery and duplicati
The country's oldest water supply line, connecting Palta water works with Tallah of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), might have to be closed down to facilitate the metro rail project from Dum
The West Bengal government has asked the Army to assist civil authorities, if needed, in relief and rescue work in Darjeeling and some other North Bengal districts affected by the massive quake tha
The hearing on the petition filed by Tata Motors Ltd challenging the Constitutional validity of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011 in the Calcutta High Court was concluded her
KOLKATA, 16 SEPT: The final report on the action plan for climate change sent by the state environment department to the Climate Change division of the Union ministry of environment and forest (MoE
