Claims under FRA being wrongfully rejected in Bengal

Claims that had been piling up since 2010 are now being rejected at the instance of the forest department

Tajpur and Haldia: How coastal development is impacting fishing in West Bengal

A deep-sea port is to be constructed in Tajpur and eight more jetties are to come up in an already industrialised Haldia, but no official has …

A flawed effort

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COVID-19: Fewer tests a bane for Bengal, warn health experts

Only 7,261 tests per million were conducted in West Bengal; only Bihar, Jharkhand, UP and Telangana lag behind

COVID-19 lockdown in Bengal: Experts claim containment strategy failed

Health experts claimed that the state’s failure to impose containment norms is why COVID-19 cases continue to be on the rise  

Central funds freeze: MGNREGA workers in West Bengal trapped in vicious cycle of illness and poverty

Workers struggling to make ends meet, have had to put new and existing health issues aside    

Severe Cyclone Remal makes landfall along Bangladesh and West Bengal coasts

Both coasts could be innundated by storm surges a metre high in West Bengal and upto 4 metres high in Bangladesh

Where will it land? Cyclone Remal may show unpredictable character, according to weather agencies

One model shows it making landfall on the West Bengal & Bangladesh coasts; the other shows it doing so on the Odisha coast between Puri and …

Cyclone Yaas is the 96th tropical cyclone to strike Odisha in 130 years

Balasore was the site for landfall for 28 cyclones in that period

Contaminated cocktail

Taming toxicity

Selenium, an easily available element, may be the answer to arsenic-related health problems

Big wonder

Homoeopathy to combat the arsenic menace

Erosion by Ganga threatens India’s largest botanical garden in Howrah

Agencies cite fund crunch, seek central assistance   

Dengue cases on the rise in India, Delhi records its 1st death

India recorded 63,280 dengue cases as of September 30, 2022

Cyclone Asani to hit coast between Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar on May 10

West Bengal set to receive heavy rains from May 10-13    

COVID-19 spreading out from Kolkata to the rest of Bengal: Centre

Five Bengal districts within top ten in India with maximum COVID-19 positivity rate

DTE Exclusive: 70% COVID-19 cases in Kolkata now due to Omicron

Ganga Sagar Mela given go-ahead by Calcutta High Court with conditions

Wild elephant kills 2 in Bihar

Officials say the elephant likely strayed out of forest in Jharkhand in search of food

Eastern coast of India to witness heavy rains this week

Bay of Bengal likely to host a tropical depression

And the sun shines on

SAVING GANGA

Review of film The name of the disease

Nuclear energy a necessity, says Buddhadeb

Extracts from 'Red Sun, Travels in Naxal Country'

Extracts from Red Sun, Travels in Naxal Country by Sudeep Chakravarty....

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