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.

West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) chairman Kalyan Rudra said on Tuesday. Uncontrolled extraction of groundwater and filling up of water bodies have led to severe depletion of the ground ...

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 National Green Tribunal cited a CPCB report stating that Ganga’s water quality in Prayagraj failed bathing standards due ...