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TT for City - Poison Air
Sunita Narain in the city on Thursday. (Rashbehari Das)

A diesel and katatel combo is deadly for Calcutta, according to researchers studying fuel consumption in various cities.

The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government is gunning for the Maidan but Subhas Chakraborty is behaving as if he already owns the greens.

The minister plans to hold a meeting on March 4 at Netaji Indoor Stadium to help decide what to do with the Maidan. He will call

The Maidan will soon be mine, so it

West Bengal's Left Front government is sitting on a powder keg even as Mamata Banerjee walks around with a lighted match. In a year in which the Lok Sabha elections are due and a hobbling economy has spread widespread anxiety in the cities, the quasi-ban on Kolkata's polluting auto rickshaws is like the last straw for the state government.

New Delhi: Dayalpur village near Faridabad in Delhi

The chief minister presents a lifetime achievement award to R.K. Pachauri at the environment meet. (Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya)
Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee lauded the high court for banning polluting autorickshaws and old diesel vehicles from the city before goofing up on his green facts at an environment summit on Thursday.