Ordering a new world

Treated like cattle

A drawn out court case raises questions about India's animal quarantine managers

Buffalo protein against cattle diseases

Buying time? West Bengal government sets up panel as explosions in illegal firecracker factories kill 16

Three back-to-back explosions; Green activists say priority should be to close illegal units

Climate change is playing spoilsport in kendu leaf collection across eastern India; here’s how

Rains, instead of heat and dust storms during April and May, have led to a proliferation of flies which are bothering collectors

Centre has withheld Rs 7,500 crore in MGNREGA funds to West Bengal for a year, claims report

MGNREGA workers in Bengal not paid wages of Rs 2744 crore for a year, report by Libtech India found  

Amphan aftermath: Sundarbans villagers try to pick up pieces

Theft at relief centres, lack of toilets add to villagers’ woes five days after cyclone Amphan struck Bengal

Rising air pollution in West Bengal no longer a Kolkata syndrome

Lack of adequate monitoring of polluting industries beyond Kolkata among causes behind the trend, claim activists

Cyclone Yaas: Bengal to double number of disaster shelters to avoid COVID-19 spread

Cyclone Yaas is predicted to strike Bengal, which is recording 20,000 COVID-19 cases daily, on May 26 

West Bengal rolls out COVID-19 vaccines even as politics creeps in

Political parties blame each other of ‘vaccine theft’ in the poll-bound state

COVID-19: ‘Bengal hospitals turning into epicentres of novel coronavirus’

At least 80 healthcare workers, including 38 doctors, have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the state  

COVID-19 update: India education ministry cancels board exams for Class X

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, Delhi transport minister Kailash Gehlot test positive for virus  

A fishy business

The fish you eat possibly contains a cocktail of antibiotics, fed to it for reasons other than disease treatment, shows an investigation by …

10 years on, Supreme Court order on firecracker composition gathers dust

Authorities have released composition-based guidelines for only four of 40 categories of fireworks

Teesta dams: A recipe for disaster?

The Gujarat 2001 earthquake drove home the point that cities built on river alluvium and sand are likely to suffer maximum damage from an …

West Bengal platform demands green focus in poll agendas, releases charter of environmental issues

Politicians acknowledge environmental shortcomings but deflect responsibility to public; BJP MP advises against expecting significant action from …

Cyclone Amphan: Kolkata faces fiercest storm in decades

Amphan was expected to pass through the city before moving on to Bangladesh

Of plants and bees

Depleting honeybees threaten biodiversity

Sham, sham

A recent survey finds the food for work progamme mired in corruption

Kolkata metro extension project under scanner

Rift within West Bengal's Left government over land acquisition

West Bengal proposes land acquisition, ruling Front riven

Update

Fish at risk

Bengal MGNREGA workers lost up to Rs 6,046 crore in wages during April-December 2022

 A study estimates that workers have lost income by 83%, compelling them to borrow money for survival 

After Mahanadi floods, Odisha farmers at mercy of Sitrang

Farmers harvest immature standing crops in fear of greater losses due to cyclonic storm