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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Mamatas alternative model to land acquisition
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Perform, achieve and trade the way to save industrial energy
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Central scheme to cover travel cost of pregnant women in Sunderbans
KOLKATA, 3 FEB: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has decided to bear the travel cost of pregnant women of the Sunderbans after it was found that most of these women shied away from attending hospitals for their delivery as they are located in far-flung areas. Senior state health officials said motorboats used to ferry people would be hired by NRHM officials for ferrying pregnant women
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More water for city, promises KMC
KOLKATA, 1 FEB: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will supply an additional 60 million gallon of water per day (MGD) to Salt Lake and north and central parts of the city from December this year, mayor, Mr Sovan Chatterjee said today. After visiting Indira Gandhi Water Treatment Plant at Palta today, he said that KMC will complete laying of 64-inch underground main within December and then
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State struggles to utilise funds for farmers within deadline
KOLKATA, 30 Jan: Although the Centre has allotted a handsome amount for providing relief to farmers of 11 drought-hit districts of Bengal, the state government may find it difficult to utilise the funds within the deadline. Claiming that the farmers of the districts are in real distress, the cash-strapped state government had demanded funds from the National Calamity Contingency Funds.
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Assembly panel raps SBSTC for failing to utilise 100 JnNURM buses
DURGAPUR: The South Bengal State Transport Corporation (SBSTC) has failed to utilise 100 buses bought under JnNURM.
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Ammonia leak at Dum Dum, 5,000 affected
KOLKATA, 23 JAN: Seventy people fell ill and 5,000 people were affected following leakage of ammonia gas from a cold storage at Nagerbazar in Dum Dum today. Panic gripped residents and many fled the locality. Around 5,000 people were affected and some of them were admitted to a local hospital. Residents developed breathing problems and eye irritation.
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Gas still leaking from Kolkata cold storage plant
KOLKATA, 24 JAN: The leaking valves of the cold storage, which emitted ammonia gas affecting about 3000 people in Nager Bazar area in the northern outskirts of the city, were yet to be fully plugged this morning.
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No decision yet on rate at which land will be leased out to industries
KOLKATA, 20 JAN: The Cabinet sub-committee on industries chaired by the chief minister today once again failed to resolve the rate at which ceiling excess land would be leased out to industrialists because of a difference of opinion between land and land reforms and industries departments on the issue. Although the sub-committee failed to resolve the exact lease rate even in the second consecu
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India presses for uranium policy reversal, Oz says no
Citing its growth and huge energy requirements, India today pressed Australia to reverse the policy of not selling uranium to it, even as authorities here insisted they would not budge from their stand on the issue. External affairs minister Mr SM Krishna, who is here on a three-day visit, met Australia's resource, energy and tourism minister Mr Martin Ferguson and renewed India's long-standing