` Now, an app to monitor sanitation
A mobile app will soon be put to use to help the West Bengal government monitor sanitation initiatives in schools across districts. "In Malda district all school inspectors and teachers will be equipped
Maldah
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Dengue claims five lives in Kaliachak
Five persons have died of dengue in Kaliachak in the last three days, district health department sources said here today. At least 30 others with dengue symptoms are presently undergoing treatment in
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Centre rushes medical teams to Bengal to deal with encephalitis
Union Health Minister writes to CM expressing concern Concerned with the deaths due to acute encephalitis syndrome and Japanese encephalitis, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan
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Encephalitis: Pesticide found in litchi samples
Scientific investigations into the outbreak of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in West Bengal, which has claimed 105 lives since June, have revealed a pesticide has been found “above minimum safe limits”
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Bengal's forest cover grows by 3810 sq km
Bengal has recorded a phenomenal growth in its forest cover in last two years. Quoting the India State of Forest Report, 2013, released in New Delhi by Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on
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No need to panic on litchi virus: Experts
More children were admitted to Malda Medical College and Hospital with “litchi syndrome“, bringing the total number of afflicted to 37. The report of blood and cerebral spinal fluid, which reached
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Disease that kills kids reaches Bengal
Affected children are largely from around a litchi plantation in Malda In the last three days, nine babies aged three to five have died in Malda district after showing symptoms that suggested acute
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Malda crib deaths now 14, panel finds ‘no abnormal cause’
Even as the toll in infant deaths in Malda Medical College Hospital rose to 14, a three-member expert team on Sunday ascertained that the casualties were caused due to malnutrition and low weight. Two
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Cancer binds Bengal community
Malda: Bidis bind villagers of Malda’s Uttar Dariyapur together, and so does cancer. Tucked away in a corner of Naoda Jadupur gram panchayat, about 20km south of Malda, nearly every household in the
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Committee to assess state of groundwater
KOLKATA, 25 JULY: The state water resources investigation and development department today formed a seven-member committee to assess the situation with the state's groundwater ahead of preparing the state’s