TAMLUK: Protest against the nuclear power plant at Haripur in Midnapore East district took a significant turn today as the Matangini Mahila Samity, which was once declared a Maoist-wing by state police and had played a pivotal role in consolidating the peoples

KOLKATA: West Bengal is expecting to generate business worth Rs. 10,000 crore from clean energies like solar power over the next ten years, Managing Director of West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation S P Gonchaudhri said.
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Cyclone Phyan spared Mumbai when it was at its fiercest but its dying residue has made eastern India warmer and turned the region around Calcutta into a temperature hotspot that may precipitate respiratory illnesses.

The minimum temperature in Calcutta today was four degrees above normal at 22.6 degrees Celsius, making it the hottest November 12 the city has experienced this decade.

The Siliguri Municipal Corporation will release CDs on the systematic disposal of waste in an awareness campaign for residents to be launched next month.

State and private thermal power stations from West Bengal form the bulk of the 11 power plants that have received coal supplies much below the guaranteed level from Coal India Ltd (CIL) during the first half of this fiscal.

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Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi launches a CD of songs composed by Raja Rammohun Roy at Raja Rammohun Roy Memorial Museum on Amherst Street on Monday morning with the lights and fans not working. The museum went without power for over 30 of the 45 minutes that the governor spent on the premises

The demand for solar appliances is soaring in the city, thanks to daily power cuts.

According to the 16 solar appliance manufacturers-cum-retailers in Calcutta, their sales have increased at least 30 to 40 per cent compared with last year. Solar fans are the most popular items, followed by solar lights.

KOLKATA: The West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation (WBGEDC) has decided to install solar lanterns in schools and relief camps in which the people left homeless after the recent Aila tragedy are taking shelter in the Sunderbans. Several solar panels in the Sunderbans were damaged in the storm and the people of the area have been reeling in darkness ever since.

Subhro Niyogi | TNN