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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Rickshaw-pullers turn pure drinking water suppliers
BEHRAMPORE, 16 JUNE: The adage that necessity is the mother of invention is apt for Kajisha, a gram panchayat at Beldanga in Murshidabad. The gram panchayat, with a cluster of villagers, has turned out to be a rare bit of rural Bengal by setting a precedence: to rope in a band of rickshaw-van pullers for supplying pure drinking water on demand to households determined to drink arsenic-free wate
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Heavy rain kills one, disrupts life in Kolkata
KOLKATA, 17 JUNE: One person today died as heavy rain pounded the city and its adjoining districts since last night caused by a deep depression that lay centred 80 km from here.
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State weighing options over Singur land
KOLKATA, 14 JUNE: With the passing of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill, 2011 allowing vesting and transferring land from Tata Motors and the ancillary units, the state government is now weighing its options on how to return the land to the unwilling farmers. Usually when the government distributes vested land it is done by giving pattas but the patta-holders do not have right t
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Hospital turns into a garbage dump
KOLKATA, 14 JUNE: Believe it or not the premises of one of the two state-run ID hospitals ~ Satyabala ID hospital in Howrah ~ has turned into a garbage dump owing to the sheer apathy of the administration during the 34-year Left Front rule. Though chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee's surprise visit to some of the state-run hospitals in Kolkata and its neighbourhood has resulted in a state of
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Dumping waste & piling up hazards
For the past four years, the Bidhannagar Municipality has been dumping waste in Mollar Bheri that falls within the boundary of the East Kolkata Wetland without permission from the East Kolkata Wetland Management Authority (EKWMA). Salt Lake's waste was being dumped in Mollar bheri since the 1960s.
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Mamata unveils three-point panacea for healthcare
KOLKATA, 13 JUNE: Chief minister Miss Mamata Banerjee (in sns photo) today urged doctors of state-run healthcare establishments to take initiative to help people to restore faith in government hospitals. She was addressing the doctors of state-run hospitals at Town Hall this morning.
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New Town-Rajarhat residents want policy to deal with water crisis
Residents of New Town Rajarhat will organise a convention on 2 July to protest against unplanned planning of Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) that has led to acute drinking water crisis in the area. Most of the tube-wells in vast areas surrounding the New Town, including Baguiati, Raghunathpur and Teghoria, have become dry as the water table has gone down by 10 to 15 fee
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Dam lies dead, villagers suffer
Residents of Manara gram panchayat in Purulia have been suffering due to lack of proper drinking water and irrigation facilities for quite a long time as Dhabani water dam ~ only source of water ~ lies defunct for several years. The local panchayat built the dam in 1995 to supply purified drinking water to the villagers.
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New Town-Rajarhat residents to hold convention against Hidco
Residents of New Town Rajarhat will organise a convention on 2 July to protest against unplanned planning of Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) that has led to acute drinking water crisis in the area. Most of the tube-wells in vast areas surrounding the New Town, including Baguiati, Raghunathpur and Teghoria, have become dry as the water table has gone down by 10 to 15 fee
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Minister cracks down on dist administration over PDS
State food minister Mr Jyotipriyo Mallik today cracked down on Bankura district administration for its indifference to the public distribution system.