KOLKATA - Rising sea levels are causing salt water to flow into India's biggest river, threatening its ecosystem and turning vast farmlands barren in the country's east, a climate change expert warned Monday.
This study estimates the recreational demand for the Indian Sundarban, which is a World Heritage site and a complex mangrove ecosystem that borders India and Bangladesh. In 2005-06, the Indian Sunderban received some 64,000 visitors, mainly from Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal. Tourism to the Sunderban is highly seasonal and characterised by few multipoint or foreign visitors.
KOLKATA, Jan 28 : The Division Bench of Mr Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Mr Justice RN Banerjee of Calcutta High Court today gave the state government a week's time to give an affidavit to court stating whether the charges of creating pollution on 20 December within three kilometres of Victoria Memorial were true and what steps were taken to check such pollution.
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KOLKATA, Jan. 20: Jadavpur University (JU) will finally be able to start research and academic programmes in the campus of National Instruments Limited (NIL).
The NIL, an ailing public sector unit, was handed over to Jadavpur University on 1 January, although the proposal is yet to be approved by the state government.
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State home secretary Ardhendu Sen met advocate-general Balai Ray on Monday to discuss the status report on the two-stroke autorickshaw ban that the government will place in the high court on January 27.
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KOLKATA, Jan 19: Slum dwellers who have been rehabilitated under various schemes of the civic body should form co-operatives so that they can take over the responsibility of maintaining their flats, mayor Mr Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya said this today.
KOLKATA, Jan. 19: The state is set to get the country's largest solar power generation plant by the end of March this year, said state power minister, Mr Mrinal Banerjee speaking this morning at the inaugural ceremony of the 18th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference and Exhibition (PVSEC) at Science City.
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KOLKATA, Jan. 16: A report prepared by Nagarik Mancha, a non-government organisation, stated that the Adivasi protest in Lalgarh was a result of the state government's failure to develop the area for decades.
The Left Front government made several promises to develop these districts but had not done anything to keep those promises.
