Mayor Firhad Hakim, who is also chairperson of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), the custodian of Rabindra Sarobar, had said earlier that the organisation would approach the Natio...

Representatives of an apex body of different social organisations, which have been working for conservation of nature and for reduction in pollution in north Bengal, have demanded immediate interventi...

The Supreme Court has stayed a National Green Tribunal (NGT) order imposing an environmental compensation of over Rs 15 crore on Moon Beverages, a key bottler for American beverage maker Coca-Cola in ...

A day after two 14-year-old rowers from South Point High School drowned in Rabindra Sarobar, allegations of not heeding to alerts of a squall and not having a rescue boat ready surfaced. The bodies o...

The deaths of two teenagers was an accident and rowing will resume soon at the Rabindra Sarobar, said officials of the rowing clubs around the lake. But before that, members of all three clubs &mdash...

Swami Smaranananda, president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, laid the foundation of a building on Durga Charan Mukherjee Street, adjoining Mayer Bari in Bagbazar, on Friday. The buil...

‘Permission? It’s illegal’  A senior university official countered Bhattacharya’s claim. “How can we give any permission to use microphones (in the open) within the...

The eastern zonal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has said no effective action has been taken by police to check noise pollution in Kolkata and the rest of Bengal. The bench of Justice B. ...

“I submitted during the hearing that though river Saraswati is polluting the Hooghly river at Tribeni in Hooghly and Sankrail in Howrah, it has not been included under the Union government&rsquo...

Both the violators have to pay the fine within the stipulated time of 14/15 days from the day the notice was issued. If the fines went unpaid, the same can be recovered as arrears on property tax...