Environmental damage in the climate change-hit islands of Sundarbans is costing India Rs 1,290 crore each year, estimates a latest World Bank report.

Environmental damage in the climate change-hit islands of Sundarbans is costing India Rs 1,290 crore each year, estimates a latest World Bank report.

West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi today lauded the state government for its effort in bringing down the Maternal Mortality Ratio from 145 to 117 per lakh live births.

Environment activists, conservationists, student leaders on Tuesday raised concern over the lack of authentic information in the public domain on the current state of existing and proposed hydropow

The government will on Wednesday start afresh the process for allotting coal mines to State and Central public sector undertakings (PSUs) and will now allot 43 blocks, instead of 36 announced earli

Within a fortnight of Principal Secretary (Tourism) Ajit Ranjan Bardhan announcing that Rs 185 crore will be invested by both state and private players to boost the tourism potential of Sunderbans,

The carrying capacity of the Indian Sunderbans has been exceeded, and the increased population is exerting pressure on the fragile and richest ecosystem of the world, a World Bank report has said.

Once forced to drink arsenic- contaminated ground water, residents of a remote hamlet in West Bengal near Indo-Bangla border are now purifying water from ponds and selling packaged safe drinking wa

Project Can Be Fast-Tracked As River Leg Is Shortest

In a relief to the government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside a Calcutta High Court order that asked it to disclose in the coal auction notice a pending litigation with West Bengal-based So