Fly ash in India: A free movement of toxicity to Bangladesh
Earlier this year, on April 9, when a ship full of fly ash collapsed in river Hooghly near Kulpi in West Bengal’s South 24-Parganas area, a cloud of grey dust…
Articles by Namrata Acharya
Namrata Acharya is an independent journalist based in Kolkata, India. Previously she worked as an assistant editor with Business Standard newspaper. She writes on issues related to economy, finance, public policy and environment. In 2019, her reporting on the Sundarbans won the C R Irani Award for Environment Reporting and was shortlisted for the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund award. She was one of the ten journalists chosen globally for the World Press Institute fellowship, USA, in 2011. She was also a recipient of the Media Ambassador India-Germany fellowship by the Robert Bosch Foundation in 2017.
West Bengal fishermen observe fewer shrimp and fish deaths by pollution this year
Around mid-April, when Siddik Mollah, a fisherman at a village called Boyarmari, located in the district of North 24 Parganas in West Bengal, found that day-by-day shrimps were growing unhindered…
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