India, Sept. 10 -- Asia Pacific region lost 45% of its vertebrate population in four-and-half decades, while the global average was 68% The world is steadily losing its vertebrate population due to e... Read More
India, Sept. 7 -- At least 250 people from Minakhan block in Sunderbans contracted the disease when they lefthome to work as labourers in stone and mineral grinding factories after cyclone Aila The N... Read More
India, Aug. 31 -- Large commercial vehicles, including goods carriers and buses, account for 74-80% of PM 2.5 and PM 10 in Howrah and Kolkata The West Bengal government has been dillydallying about p... Read More
India, Aug. 22 -- Recent breachin embankments follow the devastatations caused by cuclones Amphan, Bulbul Mousuni Island in West Bengal's Sundarbans region was severely impacted August 20-21, 2020 by... Read More
India, Aug. 17 -- TheNational Green Tribunal directed scientific shifting of legacy waste accumulated in the wetlands for decades Urban local bodies (ULB) were warned of punishment by the National Gr... Read More
India, Aug. 3 -- The land acquisition process for the pipeline in West Bengal is slow, says GAIL, the Union government's nodal agency for supplying CNG The chances of compressed natural gas ( CNG ) -... Read More
India, July 23 -- Only 7,261 tests per million were conducted in West Bengal; only Bihar, Jharkhand, UP and Telangana lag behind Testing for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become a high... Read More
India, July 9 -- Health experts claimed that the state's failure to impose containment norms is why COVID-19 cases continue to be on the rise The implementation of containment norms in West Bengal to... Read More
India, July 3 -- The Bay of Bengal region was struck by 41 severe cyclonic storms and 21 cyclonic storms in May between 1891 and 2018 West Bengal is one of the most climatically vulnerable states of ... Read More
India, June 26 -- Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had decided on the plantation to compensate for plants lost during Cyclone Amphan The Sundarbans would need an area nearly half the size of Kolkata to... Read More