` 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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Assessing aquifer vulnerability to arsenic pollution using DRASTIC and GIS of North Bengal Plain
Geographic Information System (GIS) was utilized to apply a modified DRASTIC method to assess the aquifer vulnerability to pollution of English Bazar Block of Malda District, West Bengal, India. In the western, central and southern parts of the study area the aquifer is prone to contamination. Therefore, in these regions pesticides, which may contain arsenic or arsenic rich groundwater, should not be used in irrigated land or mango orchards. In order to understand the reliability of the aquifer vulnerability, sensitivity analysis was carried out.
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Impacts of a patent on Euryale ferox on biodiversity at micro level: A case study
A patent on a process for making storage - stable edible food materials from kernels of gorgon nuts or fox nut (Euryale ferox) has tremendous impact on biodiversity resulting in triggered mass culture
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Bengal's bane
With the monsoon yet to run its course, north Bengal, where the rivers are already in spate, lives in fear.
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Teesta dams: A recipe for disaster?
The Gujarat 2001 earthquake drove home the point that cities built on river alluvium and sand are likely to suffer maximum damage from an earthquake due to high water table and the construction of dams in the upper reaches
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Arsenic in groundwater in seven districts of West Bengal, India
Arsenic has been found in groundwater in seven districts of West Bengal covering an area 37,493 km having about 34 million population. Our survey indicates that 560 villages are arsenic-affected and more
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South Asia
radioactive wastes: A Pakistani senator recently accused the country's nuclear authorities of dumping radioactive waste near a village in the Punjab province causing cancer, miscarriages, and
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No place to go
Sagar Refugee Colony, Ganga Sagar <i>gram panchayat</i>: Ever since her older son went off to work as a daily labourer in Kashmir two years ago, Sahajadi Bibi has to worry a little less about how to feed her family of eight.
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State fails to curb chicken transport
The highly pathogenic avian influenza could reach new areas in the state after the state animal husbandry department officials received reports that poultry owners of the notified areas in Malda have