For effective management of solid waste, the West Bengal government has decided to provide stationary and mobile solid waste compactor machines to all the 125 urban local bodies (ULBs) in the State

Bakery associations in West Bengal on Tuesday claimed tests conducted on bread samples produced by around 4,000 establishments in the state have revealed their products are "safe" for consumption.

Union minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi’s comments on Thursday, accusing the environment ministry of showing “lust to kill animals”, snowballed into a major stand-off between t

More people died in Bengal from acute respiratory infection than in any other state every single year from 2009 to 2014, according to a Union government report.

The Indian summer monsoon rainfall had a threedecade long alternate dry and wet epochs during about 150 years from 1840 to 1989. The dry epochs resulted in frequent drought monsoons affecting agriculture, power generation and the overall economy of the country. A high percentage of severe cyclones in the Bay of Bengal moved northwards during the dry epochs causing disasters in Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Indian States of Odisha and West Bengal.

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In the wake of reluctance among farmers on using Kisan Credit Cards (KCC), state agriculture department will initiate a drive to enlighten farmers and encourage banks to be more considerate.

Kolkata: Bread in Kolkata has passed the fitness test, with laboratories examining samples from different bakeries across the city declaring that there was no need to panic.

KOLKATA: Ola, India's most popular mobile app for transportation, today shared details on how its shared mobility solutions are making a significant contribution towards reducing vehicular pollutio

The hydrology of the Ganga River is mainly characterized by high monsoon rainfall and seasonal variability in discharge flow. The study is focuses on both the up and down-streams of Farakka barrage. It has been executed with the help of Modified Normalized Difference Water Index using Landsat satellite images (2014), satellite based discharge data and Gumbel’s flood frequency analysis. The study aims to analyse the impacts of seasonality, floods and the construction of Farakka barrage on hydrology of the Ganga River.

Kolkata: Climate change was probably not the sole cause for the collapse of the Harappan civilisation in the Indus-Ghaggar-Hakra river valleys, say Indian scientists in a breakthrough study, highli

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