Kolkata: Restoring sewage flow into the East Kolkata Wetlands is essential to revive small indigenous fish and strengthen wetland fish farmers’ livelihoods, farmers and experts said at a workshop organised by CGIAR-IWMI and implemented by the Society for Creative Opportunities and Participatory Ecosystems (SCOPE).The programme brought together researchers, fisheries advisors and local stakeholders to discuss…
Kolkata: Forty-nine of 66 Kolkata Police personnel, transferred to Bengal Police in 2016 in what many described as a “punishment posting”, would return to their parent cadre after nearly 10 years, stated an order issued from Nabanna on Friday.Those repatriated include an assistant commissioner, six inspectors, four sub-inspectors, four assistant sub-inspectors, one sergeant and several…
Kolkata: A 19-year-old resident of Merlin Ultadanga survived a fall from a 12th-floor corridor window of the 13-storey Block III early on Saturday as he landed on the terrace balcony of a ninth-floor flat instead of plunging to the ground.Police said Saptarshi Bhattacharya, a hotel management student, was found lying injured and bleeding on the…
Kolkata: A lawyer has lodged a police complaint, saying two men attacked her with a knife outside the Patuli Police Station, demanding that she should withdraw cases linked to former Trinamool councillor Bappaditya Dasgupta and party youth member Sourav Ghosh. Source link
Kolkata: An 85-year-old man died after he fell off the seventh-floor corridor window of a 15-storey residential building inside a housing complex at Belgachhia Milk Colony on Saturday afternoon. Arun Kumar Basu lived on the seventh floor.Security guards and residents of the building found him lying on a path road inside the complex around 2…
Kolkata: The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) has adopted advanced technologies like radio frequency identification (RFID) devices, sensors capable of reading hand gestures, acoustically designed hallways and sound concentrators to make the Museum of Word.Also known as Shabdalok, the facility will be inaugurated at the National Library by Union home minister, Amit Shah, on…
The dog is under routine post-operative observation Kolkata: A three-and-half-a-year-old female Beagle, Khushi, who swallowed an earbud and suffered immense abdominal pain for about a week, underwent a 20-minute surgery to remove the foreign object lodged in its stomach. Veterinary doctors stated that the canineis stable and under routine post-surgical observation. The lodging of a…
NIA team at the blast site Kolkata: A powerful explosion ripped through the ground floor of a four-storey residential building in Narayanpur near Kolkata airport on Friday evening after a crude bomb exploded.Police later recovered two more bombs from a room in the building. Preliminary investigation revealed that Md Shamim, a criminal from Sodepur, had…
The exercise is designed to map owl diversity, abundance and distribution across both protected forests and human-dominated landscapes Kolkata: West Bengal’s first comprehensive statewide owl survey — the first initiative of its kind in India — has documented 11 owl species during the first four months of fieldwork, providing the most extensive baseline yet on…
Kolkata: Eastern India is poised to become the next major growth centre for India’s city gas distribution (CGD) sector, industry leaders said at the 14th City Gas Distribution Conference-cum-Exhibition in Kolkata.Addressing the conference, Jayant Narayan Das, member of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), highlighted the regulator’s efforts to expand the country’s gas…
