the West Bengal government will

india's first mass arsenic removal community-based programme to provide safe drinking water to more than

The West Bengal government has decided to challenge a high court order doing away with transit permits for inter-state rice export, said Kalimuddin Shams, state food and civil supply minister. He

Only five states generate more than 63 per cent of the total wastewater in India as they lack treatment facilities, says a recent study

the World Bank ( wb ) has cleared the second instalment of its assistance to a solar power project in West Bengal. For the first time in the world, a 26-kilowatt (kw) solar power plant with

THE West Bengal government is planning to build a multi-layered underground aquarium and an exhibition centre at Victoria square. The project has already been cleared by the Calcutta Municipal

THE ecosystem of the world's largest mangrove, the Sundarbans in West Bengal, was falling apart until local forest authorities took up conservation projects to educate the locals and wean them away

Once harmonious, the human-elephant relationship has taken an ugly turn. Faulty forest policies and nationwide destruction of elephant habitats are forcing the animals"otrt of the forests ahd into nearby villages, where pachyderm raids are becoming increa

Twenty-eight imams of Calcutta recently refused to appear before the high court for the third consecutive time in the case against use of microphones during the call for prayers. The issue is already

West Bengal s women panchayat members have become the torchbearers of rural development programmes in the state

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