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
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Irrigation facilities for food security urged
KOLKATA, 30 March: The state land use board has recommended that the state government should set up irrigation facilities for equal quantum of single crop land land acquired to set up industry to ensure food security even as the state agriculture minister, Mr Naren De admitted in the Assembly that every year the state is steadily losing 1000 acres of agricultural land.
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Haldia chemical plant turns battlefield
Tata Chemicals plant in Haldia turned into a battlefield today as the workers of the Citu and Inttuc clashed with each other over the issues pertaining to a month-long strike, which the Citu workers are observing at the Tata plant.
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Citu throws a spanner in CMs industrialisation call
RAGHUNATHPUR (Purulia), 25 MARCH: While chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, stressed setting up an industrial hub in Purulia district, which is a
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Cong joins labourers against Aerotropolis
demand for shortlisting of beneficiaries DURGAPUR, 25 MARCH: The peasant wing of the Congress today joined the farmland labourers
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Survey on chemical hub
The state industry and commerce minister, Mr Nirupam Sen, today said in the Assembly that the Union government is conducting a survey on the environmental hazards before giving clearance to set up a chemical hub at Nayachar. He said this while answering a question of CLP leader Dr Manas Bhuinya.
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Women join Aerotropolis protest
DURGAPUR, 23 MARCH: Hundreds of housewives carrying broomsticks (in SNS photo) protested against the state's bid for acquisition of farmland to help set up an Aerotropolis project by a private agency at Andal, today.
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Team to the Arctic to study climate
KOLKATA, 18 March: The ministry of Earth Sciences is sending a team to the Arctic region for conducting a study on climate change next week. The change of climate in the Arctic region will affect the monsoon pattern of India adversely which in turn will affect the food resources in the long run..
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NREGS: State lags behind others
The state panchayat and rural development minister, Mr Anisur Rehaman today claimed in the Assembly that the panchayats in the Maoist-dominated areas of West Midnapore performed better in creating work under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme than the Trinamul-controlled panchayats in South 24 Parganas.
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NREGA a success, but shortage of funds may worsen rural job scenario
KOLKATA, 14 March: After doing much better in terms of providing jobs to the rural populace under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the state panchayat and rural development department may face trouble to provide jobs to the villagers in the first quarter of the next financial year owing to a severe crisis of funds.
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Three held for selling tap water in mineral water bottles
KOLKATA, 14 MARCH: Three persons were arrested from different parts of the city yesterday evening on charges of selling mineral water bottles filled with tap water. Police said, the accused ~ Rameswar Yadav, Paramananda Rai and Sadhu Pandit ~ were remanded in police custody till 20 March after being produced before a city court this afternoon.