Target August in plastic campaign
Jamshedpur: Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC), which has seized 18 tonnes of banned plastic carry bags from shopkeepers in the last seven months, plans to make the city 'polythene free' by August
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Green nod for NH-33 project
Ranchi, July 10: In a fillip to national highways in Jharkhand, the Union ministry of environment and forests today gave its final environmental clearance for widening an 80km stretch of NH-33 between
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Green nod key to road project - Meeting in Delhi today
Ranchi, July 9: A crucial meeting scheduled at the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF), New Delhi, tomorrow will decide the fate of the ambitious over Rs 1,500-crore NH-33 four-laning project
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Over 600 m people in Asia may not have clean drinking water by 2015, says report
Rapid urbanisation may lead to 605 million people in Asia going without improved drinking water sources by 2015, says a new report by Asian Development Bank and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.
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Tata Power Jojobera plant bags award
Tata Power’s Jojobera thermal power station at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand has bagged the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award for 2012. According to a company release, the award will be presented
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Stained steel
The iron and steel sector is non-transparent, non-compliant with weak environmental norms and is getting away with it because of an even weaker regulatory framework When the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) started its Green Rating Project in the mid-1990s, India had just liberalised its economy. There were fears that it would be disastrous if the country took the route to economic growth that ignored environmental considerations. The Green Rating Project was designed to find ways of measuring the environmental performance of companies and to drive changes in policy and practice through public disclosure.
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Jharkhand may Scrap MoUs with Sluggish Steel Firms
State govt mulls cancelling contracts with JSW Ispat and Bhushan Steel Worried over the tardy progress made by the steel makers, the Jharkhand government is considering to cancel the MoUs it entered with
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Steel city ranks second, but unwell
- Tata township scores on water & power; lags behind in healthcare, roads. Jamshedpur, take a bow. You stand second to Chandigarh among five tier-II cities in the Quality of Life 2012 survey, surging ahead
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Green nod to widening - Central board must ratify NH-33 project affecting Dalma
The four-lane work of a crucial National Highway stretch is waiting for a nod from the high-level National Board for Wildlife as it passes through the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary. Otherwise, the project on
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Declaring area around Dalma wildlife sanctuary as eco-sensitive zone
Whereas, the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Jamshedpur lies between Latitudes 22°46'30" and 22°57' N and Longitudes 86°3' 15" and 86°26'30" E in the East Singhbhum and Sariakela- Kharsawan districts of Jharkhand
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Declaring area around Dalma wildlife sanctuary as eco-sensitive zone
Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary is bounded by the forests of Dhalbhum and Saraikela Forest Division of Jharkhand and Kansabati Forest Division of West Bengal, Jamshedpur township and Chandil sub divisional town