Arsenic values in groundwater above the maximum permissible limit of 0.05 mg/l (Indian standards) have been reported from BhagirathiHooghly flood plain region of West Bengal.
Directions under Section 18(1)(b) of The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 in case of M/s. Indian Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Burnpur Works, P.S. Hirapur, Burnpur, Pin - 713325, West Bengal.
JAMALPUR, 15 SEPT: The Burdwan administration has ordered a probe into alleged siphoning off underground water reserve by a packaged drinking water unit here.
AUSGRAM (BARDHAMAN): The vibrant green of paddy saplings that stretch across acres in Ausgram block in West Bengal's Bardhaman district belies the faint cracks in the soil just below and the crisis that has driven three farmers to commit suicide within a fortnight.
The family of 32-year-old Gosai Patra, who hung himself from a tree last week, has not yet informed his wife, who r
KOLKATA: Even though the West Bengal government is yet to confirm that suicides by farmers in Ausgram block of Bardhaman district are drought-related, with the third incident of a farmer killing himself, district authorities admitted on Thursday that they were
BURDWAN, 25 AUG: The district administration of Burdwan has been ordered to overhaul the deep tube-well system across the “rice bowl”of Burwan to help extend irrigation facilities ~ however minor ~ to the farmers who braved cultivation despite severe dearth of rainfall this year.
The measure, according to the senior district officials h
