The report prepared by NEERI, which was assigned by the state pollution control board to carry out the study, says vehicles were responsible for 23.5 per cent of Kolkata’s PM 2.5 load. The SAFA...

The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday ordered the West Bengal government to phase out all vehicles — both private and commercial — that are over 15 years within six months. The trib...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has disposed of a long-standing petition on Santragachhi Jheel by directing the Howrah Municipal Corporation to set up a sewage treatment plant within four months to ...

The city’s air quality dropped from “good” to “very unhealthy” in the last three months of 2021, says a report released by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board on Sund...

A balance between environment and development has to be struck, the secretary of Bengal’s environment department said at The Bengal Club 11th Annual Panel Discussion in association with The Tele...

The Bengal Club 11th Annual Panel Discussion in association with The Telegraph will be held on Friday. The Telegraph gives a lowdown of the event. When: Friday Time: 5.30pm Venue: ICCR Hall, Ho Chi...

The special bench of the National Green Tribunal has passed a series of directives on H.K. Dwivedi, the chief secretary of the West Bengal government, on minimising pollution in the Kestopur and Bagjo...

“Noise pollution has been rampant in the city/district Kolkata (Calcutta), Howrah, Hooghly… in the entire State of West Bengal,” observed the bench. “No reply has been given b...

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...

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. ...