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Over 41 students of a school for SC/ST girls near the capital have suddenly fallen ill with symptoms of malaria or viral fever, spreading panic among teachers and parents a week after the tragedy in a Bero residential school where five boys died after drinking milk served with hostel snacks.
A water resource centre was inaugurated at Bengal Engineering and Science University (Besu) today to conduct collaborative research on water and environment.
The Indian Botanic Garden authorities have allegedly cut down at least 30 trees without permission from the forest department.
The authorities claimed the trees were felled to set up a flower garden and such operations are undertaken regularly. The chopped trees have been sold through auction.
At a time when the spurt in vector borne diseases have caught both the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state health department unaware, bureaucrats and politicians are busy passing the buck. And this has resulted in confusion over the fate of the dengue kits, which were sought by the civic body.
The state transport minister Mr Subhas Chakraborty has convened a meeting to discuss the issue of banning all vehicles as old as 15 years with the public transport operators at Writers
Though over 25,000 people have been afflicted by Malaria and Dengue in the city in the past two months, the drive to spray mosquito repellents at every house by civic workers has virtually collapsed.
The civic authorities had issued a circular asking all field workers to carry out anti-larval measures including spraying of larvaecide till 30 November .
