Call to solve Siliguri pollution problems
Concerned about the rising pollution levels in Siliguri, a voluntary organisation on Tuesday sought measures to be taken against the same. Members of the Green Forum also demanded that authorities concerned
Statesman (Kolkata)
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Singur promises bumpy drive
Fresh challenges are on the cards for the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation as agricultural land is sought to be acquired for a Tata Motors factory at Singur and bargadars and landless
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KMC wakes up to polio scare
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will launch an extensive pulse polio immunisation drive on Sunday in view of the outbreak of polio virus in Bangladesh and a case of polio affliction reported
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Elephants trigger panic at Atal TE
Fear prevails at Atal Tea Estate on the outskirts of Siliguri. A group of 17 elephants walked into the plantation last night without signs of moving out. Although the elephants have not caused any
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The five-month slumber
has taken five months for the state's health department to realise that Kolkatans have been paying through the nose for dengue confirmation tests in the city's private diagnostic centres. Yesterday,
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City coughs, Bangladesh buys
The city police's enforcement branch has been told Kolkata is supplying Bangladesh with a cough syrup laced with a banned narcotic. Its sleuths, in crackdowns on units where the mixing is done, have
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Development sans change?
The West Bengal government has decided to appoint an international agency to prepare an overall development plan for ~ and prevent illegal encroachment in ~ the East Kolkata Wetlands. To this end,
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Tapping tourism
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's efforts to make the ste a global tourist destination hang in the balance. The state may soon become India's only state to have five world
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Naveen reviews malaria-control programme
Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik has directed the health officials to involve Anganwadi workers, primary school teachers and students in malaria control programmes in the state. in order to take
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Dengue deaths continue
Dengue claimed its second victim in the city today. Deadly haemorrhaging dengue snuffed out the life of nine-year-old Saibal Ganguly in Beniapukur to prove the inefficacy of Kolkata Municipal
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Mamata blames CM for kit racket
Miss Mamata Banerjee, today gave a warning to the chief minister for allegedly shielding the health officials involved in expired diagnostic kits racket and said that she would fight this case either