The West Bengal Pollution Control Board is providing over 700 sound monitors to the police in Kolkata as well as other districts to help them curb noise pollution, an official said on Wednesday.

BENGALURU: As many as 146 people have been killed by wild elephants and tigers in the past four years in Karnataka, which translates into three deaths per month.

Bihar and Uttar Pradesh continued to reel under floods, which have left a trail of death and destruction in the two States, where 21 more people lost their lives on Thursday and over two crore peop

Flooding in Bihar claimed 26 more lives today, though the situation in deluge- battered Assam and West Bengal inched closer to normal with water receding in most of the affected parts of the two st

As news reports pour in, over 1.26 crore people in 20 districts of Bihar are affected by the floods. The surging floodwaters have already killed 253 people.

PATNA/LUCKNOW: The death toll in Bihar floods has crossed the 300 mark with 51 people losing their lives since Sunday. The figure of flood fatalities stood at 253 till Sunday.

KOLKATA: An unholy nexus of shop owners, Puja organisers, cable operators, outdoor advertising agencies has wreaked havoc with the greenery in south Kolkata.

“The Centre will fund only those solar parks with a minimum capacity of 500 MW. But such a huge project requires a big stretch of land ... at least 2,000 acres.

KOLKATA: Come October and a post-graduate course in solar energy will be launched here, as Amity University and the NB Institute for Rural Development (NBIRT) signed an MoU on Wednesday.