Cyclone Sitrang: IMD issues red alert for four North-East statesWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday appealed to the people to "stay alert" as there is a high chance of rain on Tuesday du...
Hundreds of thousands evacuated as Bangladesh braces for cycloneApproaching from the Bay of Bengal, Sitrang was expected to hit the southern coast near the Khepupara area of the Barishal-Chittaging early...
Cyclone 'Sitrang' likely to dampen Diwali festivities in BengalKolkata, along with several other southern districts of West Bengal, woke up to light rain and an overcast sky on Monday as cyclone 'Sitran...
Heavy rain likely to pound West Bengal as cyclone threat looms largeIt is very likely to bring heavy to very heavy rain in coastal districts of South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas, and heavy rainfall in ...
Cyclone threat: Bengal govt evacuates thousands in coastal areas; heavy rain likely for two days“‘Jawad' moved slightly northwards with a speed of 4 kmph during the past six hours and lay centered about 230 km south-southeast of Vishak...
7 killed as cyclone 'Bulbul' disrupts normal life in BengalWeathermen said that gale wind at a speed of 80 to 90 kmph was prevailing along and off the coastal and adjoining districts of West and Eas...
Beach Bounty: India will soon have 17 coastal tourism circuits jostling for attentionIndia can become a hot destination for beach tourism and the govt says there are about 200 beaches with tourism potential.
West Bengal government to introduce eco fish tourismA pilot project on eco fish tourism has already been completed at Nalban in Salt Lake, close to city's IT hub. The project has already been...
West Bengal to launch 'Experience Bengal' tourism campaign; Shah Rukh Khan to be brand ambassadorOgilvy & Mather, which created Gujarat's successful `Khusboo Gujarat Ki' campaign with Amitabh Bachchan, will shoot six 30-second promotion...
- Diversion of 35,867-ha of forest land okayed in 2014: Govt
The government has given approval for diversion of 35,867 hectares of forest land in a total of 783 cases in 2014, Parliament was informed ...
Diversion of 35,867-ha of forest land approved in 2014: GovernmentOn the issue of encroachment in Sunderbans forest area, he said in a separate reply that, barring two cases, there are no encroachments in ...
Cyclone Hudhud has little impact in West BengalThe coastal districts of the state which the MeT department had predicted would experience rainfall had no or little rain.
- Land vanishes in east Sunderbans
The upper Bidya and Raimangal regions in the Sunderbans, key human and wildlife habitat in the eastern parts of the mangroves, are under se...
- Railway Budget 2009-10: Gravy train to Writers' Buildings
Mamata Banerjee has used the railway budget very deftly as a powerful tool to woo the tribal and minority population in West Bengal in the ...