Wetland conservation may lead to a cooler city

Calcutta is filled with many hidden treasures, but the East Calcutta Wetlands are perhaps the most visible and certainly the city's most valuable asset. Despite this, they may also be the least well-known and the most underappreciated, absent from travel ...

Whats the one place in the city Clinton Tad Brown, political and economic officer of the US consulate, never missed taking friends and family members visiting him to? Not Victoria Memorial or Marble Palace, but the East Calcutta Wetlands. From a diplomat to ...

Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) In a bid to augment food security, West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra Friday announced the successful completion of digitised zoning and land-use mapping in 129 blocks in the state."Out of 341 blocks in the state, ...

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Rom, my spouse, carved out a large territory on the map with his thumb nail and said, We can't go there. Tribal Reserve. His nail then traced an arc across the rest of the island, That's protected area. I asked with dismay, Where can we go then? ...

Here, life depends on the changing of the tides… I heard that refrain echoed several times during a recent excursion to the magnificent Sunderbans, my first visit to this region, which invoked a sense of wonder and appreciation for the power of ...