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About 30 families at Sunderbans' ghoramara Island - a fast-sinking delta landmass on the Muriganga river in South 24-Parganas, 150 km south of Kolkata - could be casting their last votes at home constituency this Assembly election

A Bangladeshi vessel, MV Sea World, struck a sandbar and began sinking near ghoramara island, leading to the illegal discharge of toxic fly ash into the Muriganga river. This incident has raised significant environmental concerns, as heavy metals from the fly ash can contaminate water, harm aquatic life, and pose health risks to humans.

Residents of the remote ghoramara island of Sunderbans will finally have electricity. A 250KW solar power plant, the largest off-grid facility in the country, is being set up here.

The trawler tragedy near ghoramara Island would have assumed more catastrophic proportions had it not been the efforts of three bravehearts who risked their lives to rescue passengers.

Rajabala Maity stared in awe as a blank white screen turned into life with images and sound. The septuagenarian, a resident of ghoramara island in the Sunderbans, had never seen a movie before.

Islanders of the Sunderbans live a life of uncertainty. ghoramara, one of the most erosion-prone islands of this world heritage zone, gets ready to go to the polls.

Global warming has taken toll of half of an island from where over 7000 people have been displaced and it might be a matter of time before the waters of the river Hooghly took away the rest.

Residents of ghoramara, a fast-disappearing island in the Sunderbans, know the end is near, and that their home will be gobbled up by the hungry tide in a few years

The remote island of ghoramara in the Sundarbans is set to receive electricity for the first time ever. A solar and wind power plant with a capacity of 180KW is being inaugurated, funded by the ministry of science and technology and implemented by IIT-Kharagpur experts. The project, costing Rs 4 crore, will provide electricity to every home on the island, as well as solar-powered drinking water pumps, street lights, and power for battery-operated vehicles. The plant will be operated by locals, who will receive training. This will be the largest mini grid system in the country.

More than 4,000 inhabitants of cyclone Yaas-hit Mousuni and ghoramara islands in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district have been evacuated to safety following warning of new moon high tides on June 11 and June 26, a state minister said on Wednesday.

A team of IIT Kharagpur experts headed by the renewable energy scientist S P Gon Chaudhuri started work to set up the country's largest off-grid 170 kW capacity solar and wind power plant along with a charging unit for totos at the remote ghoramara island in Sundarbans. Funded by the ministry of science and technology, the work is expected to be completed before Durga Puja this year. The cost of the project is Rs 4.5 crore.

A Bangladeshi barge carrying fly ash hit a sandbar near ghoramara island and nearly split in half on Friday, forcing the crew to abandon it. The vessel sank, raising environmental concerns over oil and fly ash contamination that could impact fish populations and local fishermen's livelihoods.

The lack of proper dredging and not global warming is behind the obliteration of two islands in the Sunderbans, if experts are to be believed.

Mousuni and ghoramara, Bengal’s last outposts in the Bay of Bengal, are finally being abandoned. Struck by four cyclones in 24 months — Fani in May 2019, Bulbul in November 2019, Amphan in May 2020 and Yaas in May 2021 — the resilience of the 23,000 residents battling the odds in these ever-shrinking islands in the Sunderbans archipelago has given away and many are calling it quits. They have decided to leave the perilous existence behind and walk into an equally uncertain future.

The islands of Mousuni and ghoramara in the Sundarbans, Bengal, have successfully cultivated their first full paddy crop in years despite the challenges caused by devastating cyclones like Aila, Bulbul, Amphan, and Yaas. The islands experienced a sharp increase in soil salinity due to repeated swamping by seawater. However, this year, farmers managed to reduce soil salinity through techniques such as increasing the height of boundary walls, ploughing, proper drainage, seed-priming, and using salt-tolerant seed varieties.

Rajabala Maity stared in awe as a blank white screen came to life with images and sound...

Booth level officers on ghoramara island are working tirelessly, often through the night, to complete voter enumeration by the December 4 deadline. Facing challenges of no electricity and unreliable mobile networks, these officers depend on limited solar-powered Wi-Fi and late-night stable internet to upload data for thousands of voters, many of whom have migrated due to erosion and cyclones.

The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) is set to ban motorised cycle rickshaws in the first week of December.Mayor Mrigen Sarania claimed these rickshaws, customized by the pullers, are susceptible to accidents as the motors are pushing up the speed.

Huts washed away, roads broken, riverbanks eroded, villages flooded and people dead or missing — scenes of devastation and helplessness spanned from North and South 24 Parganas to East Midnapore a day after Cyclone Yaas made landfall in neighbouring Odisha. Many say the impact has been way worse than Amphan last year.

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