Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of News item titled: 5 Jharkhand forest officers attacked by Stone mafia, appearing in The Times of India dated 24.03.2025. The application was taken up on the basis of a news item published in the Times of …
Jamshedpur, March 25: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has come up with a state focus paper (2009-10) identifying a credit potential of Rs 7,708 crore in key farm sectors of Jharkhand. With the idea to speed up financial inclusion among the rural population, Nabard conducted a …
Poison air Jamshedpur, March 24: The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has set a three-month deadline for sponge iron units and power companies to install online stack monitoring systems to control air pollution. The JSPCB today issued the directive to managements of sponge iron units and power companies operating …
Ranchi, March 24: The state capital is not only a dirty place to live in, it also lacks proper basic amenities. This has been revealed by a study conducted by a New Delhi-based NGO. According to the survey done by PRIA, the sanitation and drinking water supply services provided by …
On Isro radar Ranchi, March 22: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman G. Madhavan Nair is scheduled to visit Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) Limited, Ranchi, on March 30 to discuss areas of increased co-operation with the firm for the country
The state has assured industrialists that it would look into their power problems. Industry department secretary N.N. Sinha has also told traders and businessmen that the department would act as a mediator between them and officials of Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB).
Jamshedpur, March 20: The tuskers in Dalma need some training for sure and the state forest department has called for a teacher from Assam. The state forest department has initiated talks with the Assam government for bringing in a tamed tusker to train the wild ones here. Range officer, Dalma, …
Jamshedpur, March 17: The Jamshedpur division of Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) is looking forward to collecting arrears around Rs 12 crore from commercial and domestic consumers through the one-time settlement (OTS) scheme that was introduced this month. Board officials confirmed that so far the scheme had received a positive …
Jamshedpur, March 17: The state forest department has involved 82 villages in the Dalma range to check forest fires this summer. Each village has been allocated Rs 10,000 for appointing fire watchers at strategic locations in the deciduous forest, which witnessed an inferno recently. The fire was caused due to …
Giridih, March 16: The effect of nanotechnology on agriculture could generate some interesting results, feel scientists at the Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih centre. Chemical fertilisers and pesticides are harmful to the ecology. Thus, the Union ministry of science and technology has funded a research development programme of agro-enterotoxic nano-particles and …
Dhanbad, March 15: Students from more than 82 government schools in Dhanbad came together today to exhibit their skills at a district-level science exhibition on Zilla Parishad grounds. The event was inaugurated by deputy commissioner of Dhanbad Ajay Kumar Singh. More than 100 models based on a wide range of …
The first-ever Lok Adalat on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in Jharkhand was all hype and no substance THE NATIONAL Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) ensures every rural household 100 days of work in a year; if work is not provided within 15 days of applying for it, …
SANTOSH K. KIRO Clean-up act Ranchi, March 12: Kitchen waste will soon become valuable. The civic body in the state capital would set up a plant at Bero, some 35km from here, to convert the waste generated from households into compost
Jamshedpur, Mar 9: After the death of two leopards during the flash floods last year, Tata Steel Zoological Park is better prepared for the coming monsoon this time round. Authorities have started extending the main enclosure for the leopards by 2m to take it above the 14ft-mark.
- City NGO to provide free medical treatment through hospital tie-up ANTARA BOSE Some respite for child workers Jamshedpur, March 9: A city NGO has now decided to launch a card to good health by providing identity tags to children living in the margins and providing them with free access …
As things stand today, Jharia presents a gloomy picture. While there are 75 pockets here engulfed by fire, vegetation on the surface is thin, as the heat has left the land dry and barren, says Sandeep Bhaskar When 14-year-old Mira, a resident of Kujama bustee near Jharia, stepped out of …
