Silt has left the Hooghly shallow. Haldia port faces closure Silt deposits at the mouth of the Hooghly river have rendered Haldia port nearly unnavigable, raising fears that India
Usually, the flow of a river is strong enough to flush the sediments into the ocean, according to oceanographer Asok Kumar Bhattacharjee of Calcutta University
Even after controlling Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) for over two decades, the CPI-M led board has failed to stop pollution created by industries in most of its wards.
The goal of any water treatment plant is to supply safe drinking water to the consumers. This study was conducted to generate a scientific Water Quality (WQ) data at treatment plant, underground reservoirs (UGRs) and consumer's end at seven municipalities for a period of fifteen months.
Unlike most of West Bengal, Hooghly district, where the Singur block is located, has never been a stronghold of the Left parties. Even before the Singur crisis, the ruling Communists had been kicked out of several panchayats in the Singur block.
Vidyasagar Setu spurs illegal business in coal the Hooghly River Bridge Commission (hrbc) has begun filling up deep holes at the base of the Vidyasagar Setu on the Howrah side of the bridge that coal pilferers had dug up over two decades. The state-run commission initiated the work after it apparently learnt about the diggings allegedly by an organized network in June following a media
Potato merchants want the state to reimburse the cost of cold storage preservation of potato bags through subsidy. The state this year recorded 25 percent additional yield of potato raising the total production to 85 lakh metric ton. The 104 cold-storages operating across the state have managed to keep 2.42 crore potato packets which according to the potato merchants was 60 lakh more packets compared to last years' preservation.
Raktima Bose The Bangladeshi barge m v Nilam moments before it sank. A Bangladeshi barge, on its way to the Narayanganj inland port, sank in the Hooghly river after it ran aground hitting an island at Noorpur in South 24 Parganas district on Monday. The barge was carrying 700 tonnes of steel coils worth Rs.4 crore. It left the Kolkata port on Sunday night. Kolkata Port Trust (KPT) sources said m v Nilam had 11 people onboard, all of whom were rescued by the local people.
