It's the final frontier, our 2000 kms journey from source to sea has now come to an end. Our Environment Editor travels to Sunderbans to meet the scientists who are counting tigers in what is considered to be the most dangerous place on planet earth. Bahar Dutt on the last leg of her Ganga journey. ...
04:59 PM, May 19, 2012
The Sunderbans: The Ganga ends its journey in the Bay of Bengal, forming one of the largest delta in the world. Here, the nature is at its pristine best. Despite the difficult terrain, scientists are now using modern technology to count tigers. An odd-looking camera trap, with a sensor inside it, is used to click pictures of the big cat. For this, the scientists must select an ideal spot, where...
11:30 AM, May 18, 2012
Kolkata: The West Bengal government's move to extend the national grid to the Sundarbans delta for electrifying villages has come in for criticism from environmentalists. "The land is soft and setting up large and heavy transmission poles may lead to greater erosion, and change the tidal patterns when installed in rivers and creeks," SP Gon Chaudhuri, former director of West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation Limited (WBGEDCL), told PTI. These...
12:24 PM, Mar 02, 2012
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AP File photo shows mangrove trees submerged in the river water in the Sunderbans. An India-Bangladesh joint initiative to save the Sunderbans can serve as ...
10:22 AM, Nov 02, 2010
Kolkata: At least 18 people were feared drowned and several others went missing on Saturday after a boat capsized in the Buriganga river in West Bengal. The vessel, carrying around 150 people, capsized in a river in the Sunderbans mangrove forest, 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of Kolkata. The victims were mainly farmers and fishermen and were returning from a Muslim religious festival when the accident occurred. "They were returning...
08:41 AM, Oct 31, 2010
A part of the mangrove forests of the Sunderbans may be lost in future due to the rising water levels in the Bay of Bengal. ...
03:02 PM, Jun 05, 2010
A part of the mangrove forests of the Sunderbans may be lost in future due to the rising water levels in the Bay of Bengal. ...
03:02 PM, Jun 05, 2010
Many villages have been completely submerged due to Cyclone Aila. ...
09:09 AM, May 30, 2009
Victims complained that no relief and food packets had reached them. ...
11:10 AM, May 28, 2009
It is home to over 200 tigers, crocodiles and endangered wildlife. ...
03:13 AM, May 28, 2009
A satellite image also shows how the Gangotri glacier has shrunk. ...
11:06 PM, Mar 27, 2009
In Sundarbans over 5000 people already having lost their land to sea. ...
04:11 PM, Mar 13, 2009
Experts say tigers are migrating northwards in large numbers. ...
08:18 PM, Oct 21, 2007
Sagar island is the world's largest climate change refugee colony. ...
04:18 AM, Oct 19, 2007
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