Green blueprint for Kolkata Kolkata: Kolkata’s next phase of growth must be guided by where the city can expand safely and where expansion must stop. A new IIT Kharagpur study, ‘Heat island, pollution load and urban sprawl in the Kolkata metropolitan city of India during 2000–2020: implications for its sustainability’ shows that two decades of…
Kolkata: The state govt is trying to do away with the middlemen in the farm-to-table segment of agricultural produce by increasing the reach of the state-owned agri-marketing platform Sufal Bangla, state agriculture marketing minister Dilip Ghosh said. While the vegetables are being purchased from farmers’ markets and collection centres in Singur and Bhangar, the state…
Second airport in Kalyani Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday said the state govt identified 2,000 acres in Kalyani, Nadia, for a greenfield project to develop Kolkata’s second airport.An official said land, identified for the second airport, stretched from the rear side of AIIMS Kalyani to Narapati Para in Simurali under the Chakdaha Assembly…
A poster of Marathi film ‘Swargandharva Sudhir Phadke’ Pune: Marathi movies’ excellence was evident at the National Film Awards 2026 as ‘Swargandharva Sudhir Phadke’ bagged the national award for best screenplay (adapted), while Marathi-English film ‘Bhangaar’ was named the best non-feature film on Saturday.The film ‘Hamsafar’ won the award for the best short film. The…
