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West Bengal will soon have the country’s first community reserve to protect the endangered dolphins. The dolphin reserve will come up in the stretch of the river Ganges, also known as Hooghly, which is roughly 500 km long. “A committee is being formed to examine in what way the community reserve would be set up in the Hooghly river between ...

In a shocking incident of goons harassing women in general compartment, a woman with a small baby jumped off Mahanandra Express near alipore in West Bengal and her husband too jumped off later to save the family. The woman and her husband sustained injuries and were hospitalised in a Divisional Railways Hospital. The incident is one of many such incidents ...

Mysore city in Karnataka has topped the Swachh Bharat Rankings of 476 cities in the country with three more from the State figuring in the top 10. The city is leading the cities with minimal open defecation and extensive adoption of solid waste management practices. West Bengal has scored well with 25 cities/towns from the State finding a place in ...

In West Bengal, 48 deaths have been reported and another 28 in Rajasthan following massive floods in the northern India including Gujarat, Manipur, West Bengal and Odisha. The rains remain heavy due to depression, warn Met department, especially in other regions too including Bihar, sikkim, MP, Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to Chief Minister of Gujarat ...

Royal Tiger or more ordinarily Bengal Tiger started undergoing a decreasing tendency since 2011. It posed such an intense effect on these species that the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) declared them to be endangered in 2010.   Now, IUCN also declared that growing sea levels triggered by alteration in climate puts the Bengal tigers ...

After the authorities of Balurghat General Hospital suspended the accused nurse, who “accidentally” cut off the thumb of an 8-day-old baby while trying to cut the leucoplast, chief minister Mamata Banerjee demanded that the nurse be sacked from her job. The baby, who was suggested to be taken to North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) in Siliguri after the ...

Infant deaths are the most common form of medical negligence in West Bengal. Adding to it, in a shocking incident on Sunday, a nurse allegedly cut off the thumb of an 8-day-old baby girl by “accident” while trying to cut a leucoplast for creating a channel to run saline – with scissors, said reports. Photo Credit: The incident happened in ...

IIT-Kharagpur, which is a pioneer in engineering courses in India, is now embarking upon the medical sciences too to ebceome the firts IIT in India to offer MBBS from 2017. The construction work for a 400-bed super-speciality hospital, Dr B C Roy Institute of Medical Science & Research, is likely to be ready by them and the government approval was ...

Former JNU icon and senior leader Sitaram Yechury was unanimously elected the new general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday at the party’s 21st Congress in Vishakhapatnam, a key development in the party. The major test of Yechury will be to bring West bengal back to CPI-M fold in the midst of BJP’s growing presence in ...

As many as 34 fresh swine flu cases were recorded in West Bengal since Wednesday, while the condition of senior CPI-M leader and former minister Gautam Deb remained stable, a health official said on Thursday. “There have not been any deaths since Wednesday. The total number of cases is now 392,” Principal Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) Malay Kumar De ...