A petition has been filed in the Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) after its judicial member Justice Pratap Ray expressed concern over the article 'Arsenic Level Sounds Death

The United Kingdom will fund a capacity building programme for making Kolkata a low carbon city.

Lauding the people of Darjeeling for their initiative to make the Queen of Hills clean and green, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today announced that 50,000 toilets would be built in th

KOLKATA: To track the movement of tigers and encroachers in protected forest areas, a drone would soon be flying in the Sundarban delta.

The Central Government may simultaneously launch an elephant census in West Bengal and the north-eastern States in 2016 to prevent repetition and avoid errors in counting, an official said on Monda

Tremors were felt in several parts of India after an earthquake hit Nepal on Sunday. The fresh quake struck 89 km east of Kathmandu.

KOLKATA: Thanks to indiscriminate use of antibiotics, infection control may become a tough task in the city.

State agriculture department has undertaken a 15-day publicity drive to raise awareness among farmers for cultivating plots that were damaged in floods.