Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Sk. Kamre Alam Vs Government of West Bengal & Ors. dated 01/10/2015 regarding the installation of a mobile tower by VIOM Network Limited in a thickly populated residential locality of Kashipur Mouza, Purba Medinipore, West Bengal.

Information on fatalities in India as a result of lightning flashes has been extracted from a database on disastrous weather events of the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Records dating from 1979 to 2011 indicate that about 5259 persons have been killed by lightning strikes in India. The maximum number of lightning fatalities was observed in the states of Maharashtra (29%), West Bengal (12%) and Uttar Pradesh (9%).

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Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Joydeep Mukherjee Vs Chief Secretary, Government of West Bengal & Others dated 30/09/2015 regarding degradation of the environment by brick fields operating illegally, West Bengal.

With two dengue deaths reported from the state this year, including that of a 5-year-old boy in Kolkata, the government on Friday claimed that though there has been a spurt in the number of cases,

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Just like humans, trees too now have identity cards in a Kolkata suburb.

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