Biswajit Mukherjee

The state environment department is framing a policy for installing hoardings and billboards across the state. A committee has been formed for this purpose that will come out with recommendations by August 31.

Anirban Chakraborty, the creative director of Chitrabani, is taking his first plunge as director.

The environment department wants fly ash to be used extensively in various types of construction work, particularly roads and highways.

A second-year BTech student of Durgapur Institute of Advanced Technology and Management has been missing since Saturday. Sanjib Ali - the student - was last seen in front of the campus gate on Saturday evening.

Abiding by the Jharkhand high court directive, former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda today surrendered to a lower court on the completion of his week-long provisional bail granted to attend his ailing mother.

With only 11 days left for Diwali, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board, along with the police, will start conducting raids in and around the city to seize banned firecrackers.

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), which is probing the case, listed Singhal and others as accused in the case. Singhal, who was arrested by the ED in May 2022, is out on interim bail.

A TOI report on the health hazards faced by the people of Ganganagar Katakhal area owing to mushrooming chemical units had prompted the state health department to conduct a survey.

Following the recent incidents of ammonia gas leakage from cold storages and ice plants located in populated urban areas, the state Pollution Control Board banned the use of ammonia in ice plants and cold storages.

After shirking responsibility for nearly a decade, Kolkata Port Trust has stepped forward with a commitment to do its bit in cleaning the river.

The chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) will visit the city on September 5 to discuss the issue of banning colours with high lead and cadmium content.

Guidelines on how thermal power plants can use and dispose fly ash will be released on Tuesday. This follows months of agitation by villagers around these plants who alleged that fly ash was polluting air and water in their localities.

Former chief minister and Chaibasa MP Madhu Koda was granted bail by the high court here on Thursday in the case relating to the receipt of Rs 13 crore from a private steel company and 44 other mining companies.

Most civic bodies in the state have failed to clear plastic waste from their areas. And the task is cut out for those who take control of the 81 civic bodies that went to polls on May 30.

The environment department has laid down guidelines for puja committees to create an environment-friendly atmosphere in and around pandals.

NRS Medical College and Hospital authorities have been served notice by the environment department, asking them to explain how 30 full-grown trees were chopped off inside the hospital premises a few weeks ago.

The state government has reconstituted the plastic management committee to give it more teeth and end the menace of plastic bags, once and for all.

The state environment department on Monday asked East Midnapore superintendent of police K Jayraman to take stern action against those who murdered primary school teacher Monmohan Kuiti for protesting against the use of loudspeakers beyond permissible time.

National Green Tribunal (NGT) wants to stall all ongoing construction works in the state that are not using fly ash bricks

Except a few complaints from the districts, the state noise pollution committee has not got any complaint against political parties for exceeding the permitted noise level during election campaigns in the city so far.

The river that is visibly cleaner at Farakka in Malda, aro ner at Farakka in und 560km upstream of Diamond Harbour where it drains into the Bay of Bengal, turns murky gray around Dakshineshwar and impervious when it flows by Kidderpore.

The state pollution control board has, with the help of police, started demolishing godowns where banned firecrackers are stored.

With repeated failures to implement the ban on plastic bags less than 40 microns thick, the state plastic management committee has decided to take a tough stand.

Starting October 2, diners and tipplers will not be allowed to light up in between their pegs as the ban on smoking in public places comes into effect.

Accident victim Jharna Rakhsit was happy to be compensated with Rs 40,000 as her right hand had been fractured after being hit by a bike in April 2016.

Two months ahead of Durga Puja, the state environment department has woken up again to the hazards of the lead-based paints used to colour the idols.

The special PMLA court has fixed April 10 as the date for framing of charges against suspended IAS officer Pooja Singhal and two others in the MGNREGA scam and money laundering case.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday asked the state to explore various aspects of noise pollution in the city and other parts of the state, which have been raised by green crusader Subhas Datta, the applicant in a noise pollution case.