| Bengal to acquire land for Sunderbans embankment repair | 30-OCT-09 |
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| West Bengal government is all set to acquire land for dealing with damages to the Sunderbans embankments breached by cyclone Aila. The government said it would acquire 5,963 acres for reconstruction of 834 km of embankments in the Sunderbans. "The decision has been taken on principle in a cabinet meeting convened by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for immediate restoration of the area," state Finance minister Asim Dasgupta told reporters in Kolkata. |
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| Aila fuels Indo-Bangla border smuggling in Sunderbans | 22-SEP-09 |
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| Soon after the clock strikes midnight, the muddy roads on the Indo-Bangla border, at Sahebkhali in Sunderbans, become busy with trains of cattle being herded on a secret journey culminating in Bangladesh where they will be slaughtered for shipment as processed beef. |
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| MoEF to work on long term plan for Sunderbans | 25-JUN-09 |
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| The Union ministry of environment and forests will prepare measures to protect, Sunderbans, the largest mangrove block in the world. Jairam Ramesh, Union minister of state for environment and forests, said that short-term and long-term measures for protecting the ecology of Sunderbans would have to be taken. He visited Sunderbans along with members of the National Disaster Management Authority and National Tiger Conservation Authority to study the impact of the cyclonic storm, Aila. |
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| Aila leaves Sunderbans vulnerable | 09-JUN-09 |
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| Aila, the cyclonic storm, which hit West Bengal about a fortnight ago, has left the sinking islands of Sunderbans in South 24-Parganas vulnerable. |
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| Buddha faces ire of relief seekers in Aila-hit Sunderbans | 01-JUN-09 |
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| West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was today gheraoed twice by relief seekers in the state’s South 24 Parganas, the worst-hit district by cyclone Aila, even as the government prepared a memorandum seeking assistance of Rs 1,000 for submission to the Centre. |
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| UK sponsors Sunderbans replanting | 17-MAR-08 |
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| In response to the possibility of massive damage to the West Bengal coastline caused by global warming and associated climate change in the Bay of Bengal, the British Deputy High Commission in Kolkata |
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| Biomax seeks land for bio-diesel from algae | 21-AUG-07 |
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| West Bengal, which has large tracts of its barren land, devoted to Jatropha cultivation, was well placed for production of alternative bio-diesel, generated from algae.
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| ONGC begins drilling in Sunderbans | 21-MAR-05 |
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| Offshore West Bengal, believed to be a good prospect for natural gas because of its proximity to the gas discoveries in Bangladesh, is undergoing drilling for the first time. Oil and Natural Gas |
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| NGO opposes Sahara project in Sunderbans | 04-OCT-04 |
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| Kolkata-based non government organisation (NGO) Direct Initiative for Social & Health Action (Disha) feels that the plan of the Government of West Bengal (GoWB) to grant conditional clearance to |
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