Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
The government today said it has approved building over 1,000 kilometre of expressways under its flagship road building programme NHDP, entailing an investment of Rs 16,680 crore. The projects include 400 km long Vadodara-Mumbai, 66 km long Delhi-Meerut, 334 km long Bangalore-Chennai, and 277 km Kolkata-Dhanbad expressways. “The construction of …
Methane, the simplest of all alkane and the principal component of natural gas, fired the grey cells of more than 12 experts at a four-day workshop that was inaugurated at the executive centre of the Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR) on Monday. The programme, titled First Indo-US …
In a bid to cap the polluting fumes emitted by thousands of vehicles in Jharkhand’s cities, the government is thinking of putting in place liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dispensing stations. In an affidavit filed before Jharkhand High Court in Ranchi on Thursday, the government informed that as a pilot project, …
Fresh milk delivered at your doorstep, minus any polluting plastic pouches. In a nod to environment conservation, the state animal husbandry department has decided to deliver fresh milk to households every morning through insulated tanks that will dispense half a litre at the press of a button, and would cost …
Sukra Oraon tenderly attends to the lush green paddy crop that covers his three-and-a-half acre plot along the highway near Tupudana, 15 km from Jharkhand capital Ranchi. Two months from now, Oraon hopes to earn at least Rs 30,000 from the yield. “That’s huge money for us,” says Oraon who …
Ranchi, Aug. 5: Nine districts of Jharkhand will have an annual earning of over Rs 1,151 crore with the local population reaping most of the benefits if a 26 per cent profit sharing clause under a draft Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Bill 2011, to be tabled in Parliament …
This paper deals with utilization of flyash to vegetation programmed in abandoned open cast mines of Jharia coalfields, Dhanbad, Jharkhand. Its physical properties are beneficial in vegetation purposes in abandoned opencast mines of Jharia coalfields.
Animals fall prey to speeding trains, blame game on Trains are meant to observe speed restrictions between Hehegara and Chipadohor in Betla within Palamau Tiger Reserve. File picture Ranchi, July 26: Around 70 Up and Down trains, often flouting regulation speed limits, use an 8-km railway track that cuts through …
The socio-economic survey of underground fire-affected families of Jharia coalfield region, which was stalled midway over a rate dispute, is set to start again. Rehabilitation and resettlement in-charge of Jharia Rehabilitation and Development Authority (JRDA) Gopal Ji said new rates had been fixed for carrying out survey work, which is …
Dhanbad, May 26: Indicating it means business, Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has pulled up various stakeholders of the coal belt, including industries and civic organisations, for not doing enough to ensure a cleaner environment as envisaged in the Dhanbad Action Plan formulated last year. Yesterday, the board distributed …
Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) today slapped cases against three coal washeries belonging to BCCL and SAIL for ignoring earlier notices and continuing to discharge effluents in the Damodar river. The cases were filed against deputy general manager of Chasnala coal washery of Steel Authority of India Limited and …
Jharkhand Governor M.O.H. Farook on Monday approved an ordinance seeking regularisation of unauthorised structures in the State, Raj Bhavan sources said. Jharkhand Regularisation of Unauthorised/Deviated Construction to Compounding in Urban Areas, 2011 was approved by the Governor. Under the ordinance, the government has, in principal, agreed to provide flats, each …
The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has selected a Delhi-based agency to set up five new incinerators for quick disposal of biomedical wastes although another firm had quoted the lowest price. The former chairman of JSPCB, C.R. Sahay, assigned the Central Bio-waste Treatment Facility project to Synergy Waste Pvt …
Ranchi, April 13: Biomedical waste upping the hazard quotient in the capital and elsewhere will soon be a thing of the past, courtesy Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB), which has decided to set up not one, but five new incinerators for quick disposal. To be christened the Central Bio-waste …
Jamshedpur, March 7: The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) is treading with caution to ensure that its public hearing for the expansion of Turamdih mines in Sundernagar gets over smoothly. The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has fixed March 10 as the new date of the hearing after …
Dhanbad, Feb. 27: Barely 40 hours after a mine lift snapped at a BCCL colliery in Chandmari, the roof of another in Kumardubi, owned by Eastern Coalfields Limited, caved in killing one person today. While pump operator Badal Bauri died on the spot, cable man Naresh Nonia sustained injuries. He …
Dhanbad, Feb. 10: The high-powered committee of the Union coal ministry that is monitoring rehabilitation of the Jharia-fire affected will hold a meeting in New Delhi on February 15 to discuss a proposal for offering bigger flats to the beneficiaries. Under the ongoing rehabilitation programme, the victims have been shifted …
Dhanbad, Jan. 4: Hyderabad-based Ramky Infrastructure has been awarded the contract to execute the Rs 55 crore integrated solid waste management project in Dhanbad, a move which is expected to solve the coal capital
