Raktima Bose 3 more solar power plants for West Bengal Solar energy-run housing complex set up at New Town in Kolkata Aim is to achieve zero-carbon emission KOLKATA: West Bengal is pitching in in a big way to find alternative sources of power in the face of rising fuel cost and growing global warming. It is slated to get three more solar power plants in Purulia and Bankura districts, after the one at Asansol in Burdwan district, first of its kind in Southeast Asia, S.P. Gon Chaudhuri, Director, West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Authority (WBREDA), on Wednesday.

Jug Suraiya Bengal governor Gopal Gandhi has committed an unpardonable sin and has, rightly, been taken sternly to task by chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and other state leaders. Governor Gandhi's lapse? In order to show solidarity with the citizens of Kolkata, and other parts of Bengal, who are suffering from long power cuts, the governor voluntarily had all the lights and electrical appliances in Raj Bhavan switched off for two hours.

Improve the power situation or we won't vote for you. This is what people living in the semi-urban panchayat areas of Hooghly district have told the candidates of the CPI-M and other Left Front contestants during their door-to-door canvassing as a part of their poll campaign. Having been criticised for failing to improve the power situation, the CPI-M zonal committees have asked the West Bengal State Electricity Board (WBSEB) to ensure round the clock power supply to houses at least before the polls, scheduled for 14 May in the district, said a senior CPI-M district committee member.

Lack of buying interest, inadequate storage spaced cited as reasons for the fall in prices.

The intermittent violence spread over 11 months at Nandigram last year notwithstanding, a cross-section of the people in the area are in favour of industries there that will provide them jobs, accordi

State government's attempt to acquire land at Nandigram for a proposed Chemical hub may have witnessed enough bloodshed forcing the chief minister to abandon land acquisition plans there, but the Asse

: State agriculture minister, Mr Naren Dey today said that though a potato farmer had committed suicide in the state, it is yet to be established whether financial distress, due to a bumper potato pro

The highly pathogenic avian influenza could reach new areas in the state after the state animal husbandry department officials received reports that poultry owners of the notified areas in Malda have

The Centre could give its consent to the proposed Nayachar chemical hub in two to three months. Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan said an expert panel was examining the proposal sent by Bengal.