West Bengal Pollution Control Board’s public hearing regarding the setting up of 600MW power plant in Salboni got a major push with villagers invoking their support for the plant, seeking “immediat

The West Bengal government has undertaken a Rs 500-crore programme to convert 50,000 hectares of non–arable land into cultivable area in the State’s four drought-prone districts — Bankura, Birbhum,

Man-elephant conflict in seven forest divisions in three districts of south Bengal resulting in the loss of human lives and pachyderms is emerging as a major challenge for foresters and the distric

The State has got investments to the tune of Rs.500 crore in the agro products sector from the Biyani Group-owned Future Consumer Enterprise Limited, said Finance Minister Amit Mitra here on Wednes

Nine persons have died in the floods, even as the situation in four districts of south Bengal continued to be grim. New areas were inundated on Thursday.
Seven of the deaths were reported from Paschim Medinipur district alone, according to the Disaster Management Department (DMD).

The United Progressive Alliance government has cleared .

Unregulated tourism and development activity along beaches like Mandarmani and Digha in West Bengal is killing turtles including the vulnerable Olive Ridleys, say researchers.

বৃষ্টিতে ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত কৃষকদের ক্ষতিপূরণ দেওয়ার ব্যাপারে এখনও চূড়ান্ত সিদ্ধান্ত নিতে পারল না পশ্চিম মেদিনীপুর জেলা প্রশাসন। বৃহস্পতিবার মেদিনীপুর কালেক্টরেটের সভাকক্ষে এই সংক্রান্ত বৈঠক ডাকা হয়েছি

Yet to achieve financial closure for project because of pending draft agreement

The West Bengal government has upped the ante against JSW Steel and charged it with delaying the Salboni steel and power project. At Rs 35,000 crore, the investment for the project is the largest in the state. Questioning JSW's intentions, Partha Chatterjee, West Bengal industry minister, today said if the company continued to dilly-dally, it could be asked to return the land. "I am fed up with the company. It seems they have no intention of taking the project forward. We have waited enough. They have been talking about the iron ore problem. But that is not the state government's responsibility. They are raising one issue after another," Chatterjee said.

The Indian Oil Corporation’s R910-crore LPG pipeline project has hit a 20-acre sticky patch in Haldia. The land is crucial since the oil major has planned a pumping station on it which would enable gas flow through a 300-km-long pipeline from Haldia to Durgapur and right up to Kalyani.

An IOC official said the entire length of the pipeline from Paradip in Orissa to Haldia and then to Kalyani in West Bengal is 710 km. There is no problem of land for the entire stretch but only 20 acres has become detrimental to the project.