The environment department is closely monitoring the encroachment, siltation status and overall health of the fisheries in ...

last week only a bench of the Supreme Court led by Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia had ordered a complete ban on manual scavenging and sewage cleaning in six major metropolitan cities including Kolkata.

The preliminary post-mortem opinion on the three labourers who died in an underground sewer at the Kolkata Leather Complex in Bantala on Sunday said the deaths were from inhaling poisonous gases.

The incident happened four days after the Supreme Court banned manual scavenging and manual sewer cleaning in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The police on Monday ...