Forest officials said that this was the second time that they had released a leopard fitted with the chip, and that the radio collar will help them study the its behaviour. The initiative was taken by the state forest department, in association with the Wildlife Institute of India.
July 5, 2020The ‘sero-survey’ was recently conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), in association with the World Health Organisation (WHO), in Alipurduar district, officials said here today.
June 29, 2020It is learnt that the youth had been suffering from tuberculosis.
June 24, 2020According to sources, the four collection centres will be functional from next Monday, while each one can collect 150 samples a day.
June 18, 2020The VRDL at the NBMCH has been under immense pressure as it caters to Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Behar districts too, apart from Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts.
June 2, 2020The resuming trains will |have both AC & Non AC classes and General Coach with reserved seats.
May 22, 2020It is learnt that 50 percent of the total donation amount will be given to the West Bengal state government relief fund and the remaining 50 will be given to the Prime Minister’s relief fund.
May 9, 2020It started the relief work on 6 April and has been working with slum dwellers in Jalpaiguri town as well as in different village areas including tea-gardens of Jalpjaiguri, Cooch Behar and Darjeeling districts, according to the Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission, Jalpaiguri, Swami Shivapremananda.
May 7, 2020At the NBMCH, one of the doctors, an eye specialist, had tested positive for the novel coronavirus on 30 April.
May 6, 2020The “old lady,” which lost its last set of teeth recently, was unable to eat because of her old age, it is learnt.
May 5, 2020Sources said that two health staff wearing the personal protection equipment (PPE) and taking other precautionary measures will go about in different places in the van and collect the samples from people around.
April 30, 2020“We collected the throat swab of the patient before he died. We have sent the samples for tests, but the report is awaited. We cannot say whether the patient had been suffering from Covid-19 until we have the test reports,” said the Deputy chief medical officer of health-2 in Alipurduar, Dr Subarna Goswami.
April 27, 2020It may be mentioned here that the government has recently ordered MR dealers all over the state to open their ration shops two times a day—four hours in the morning and six hours in the evening.
April 25, 2020The residents of the area alleged that a police team arrived there with an earth mover after midnight to secretly dump the body of a person who died of the virus.
April 21, 2020“She was a health supervisor in the Kumargrame block in Alipurduar district earlier,” sources said. It is learnt that one Subrata Biswas made a post on Facebook and claimed that 18 persons were infected with Covid-19 in Alipurduar district and that one of them had died.
April 16, 2020Officials today said they have sent the throat swab samples of the man for COVID-19 tests.
April 3, 2020The state forest department is worried about the deaths of the one-horn rhino in the national park, and has alerted all forests in the region.
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