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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
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
This Saturday, 24 October, will be a red-letter day. And for reasons not because the Peace of Westphalia was signed (1648), marking the end of both the thirty years
Sanjib Chakraborty BASIRHAT, 19 OCT: Six months after the devastation caused by cyclone Aila, several villages in the Sunderbans still remain cut off from the rest of the state, as the roads connecting Kolkata with these remote areas are yet to be repaired. The sub-divisional authorities have been showing reluctance in this matter.
KOLKATA, 18 OCT: City cops have been successful in their mission to enforce the cracker ban as 1069 people, including a doctor, were arrested for bursting banned firecrackers on Diwali.
The chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today chose to support the district magistrate of South-24 Parganas on the issue of filling up a waterbody to provide land to Mani Bhaumik Foundation.
The project to develop destination tourism, circuit tourism and the Ganga Heritage cruise project in the state cannot be carried out as the state tourism department is yet to get necessary clearance from the land and land reforms department.
After poachers were suspected to be responsible for the death of one of the rhinoceros at Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary in north Bengal, senior forest officials have decided to fill up the post of security guards that are lying vacant for the past few years.
The state fisheries minister, Mr Kironmoy Nanda today alleged that the district administration was filling up a waterbody illegally to facilitate setting up of a private educational institution, land for which was leased out by the state government.
It took over three decades for the CPI-M-led state government to gulp the hard fact that majority of the people living in the rural areas are ignorant of their rights about several schemes of the state rural and panchayat development department.
A Division Bench of Justice Mr Aniruddha Bose and Justice Mr Sanjib Banerjee of Calcutta High Court today directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) to inquire into the possibility of any construction work harming a 2,000-bigha waterbody in Howrah and file a report by 30 October. The matter will come up for hearing again on 6 November.
Three low floor buses were flown into service by the state transport minister, Mr Ranjit Kundu, today. The vehicles have been procured under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme. The buses would ply on routes ~ 221, 214 and 32 ~ one each.