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 …
Farming in progress at the polyhouse. Picture by Hardeep Singh Ranchi, Feb. 11: Rasila Kothari (50), a floriculturist, is slogging away to meet the Saturday deadline. The brain behind this mega project, along with 25 staff members, is taking care of 30,000 Dutch roses grown on one acre of land …
Jamshedpur, Feb. 11: Better late than never. So believe the 18 schools in and around the steel city that have decided to be a part of the National Awareness Environment Campaign this year. Aware of their responsibilities to save mother Earth the institutes including Hill Top School, Little Flower School, …
Soon decades-old buses will vanish from the streets of the steel city and a low-floored fleet will roll in. The phase-out move is aimed at fulfilling the guidelines set by the District Transport Office (DTO) as well as ensuring a comfortable ride for passengers. DTO has directed phasing out of …
Jamshedpur, Feb. 10: The industrial hubs of Seraikela and Chaibasa can look forward to a less-polluted environment. For, the regional office of Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) is setting up two ambient air quality monitoring stations there. Senior officials of the JSPCB said that they have already received the …
Bokaro, Feb. 9: Having failed to rein in straying elephants, forest officials are now banking on villagers to lend them a helping hand. Village protection committees in Petarwar, Kasmar, Gomia and Jaridih have been entrusted with the task of preventing the elephants from entering the villages, destroying crops and damaging …
Ranchi, Feb. 8: Anti-smoking squads formed by the state government last month to enforce Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rules have swung into action, imposing fines on business establishments of the city. The first two offenders brought to book were two business establishments located beside Kanke Road near the …
Director-general of ICAR Mangla Roy inaugurates a poultry centre at BAU on Sunday. Picture by Manik Bose Ranchi, Feb. 8: Birsa Agriculture University (BAU), Ranchi, is well on the path to take its annual piglet production from 600 to over 2,000 per year, thanks to a mega seed project funded …
According to recent World Bank estimates, over 45 percent of India lives under the $1.25-a-day poverty line. This translates to a staggering 450 million Indians, which is more than the population of the US! The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 2005 was designed as a novel and radical response …
-Govt plans processing plant, to train 500 East Singhbhum artisans - PINAKI MAJUMDAR An artisan at an NGO in Jamshedpur. Pix: Bhola Prasad Jamshedpur, Feb. 6: If things begin in earnest, Chakulia in East Singhbhum will soon turn into a popular hub of bamboo products. The state industry department has …
Giridih (Jharkhand): The entire male population of a village numbering more than 350, including children, have deserted their homes in Jharkhand apprehending arrest by police in connection with cases of felling trees. They have been booked for destruction of forest and encroachment of forestland under the Forest Act, and some …
Ranchi, Feb. 5: The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plans to increase its present capacity of 30,000MW to 51,000MW by the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan. And for this, it is planning to hold talks with the state government so that it can set up units in the state. …
Jamshedpur, Feb. 4: A tusker from Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary has wreaked havoc in the villages of Kandra and Chowka in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district. The elephant got separated from a herd of five and damaged five houses and injured one person. According to forest department officials, the herd from Dalma …
SHALINI SABOO Officials of the State Pollution Control Board, CCL and students of Birsa School clean up the Kanke dam area during an awareness campaign. Picture by Manik Bose Ranchi, Feb. 2: The state capital would soon be free of polythene bags. A sincere effort is being made to get …
- Special device filters unwanted signals from space to make room for important data SANTOSH K. KIRO TECH WIZARD: Srikanta Pal of BIT, Mesra Ranchi, Feb. 2: A research scientist of Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, has done the country proud. A data filter device developed by Srikanta Pal, …
NMDC Limited is set to secure mining lease for Sansangora deposit in Jharkhand. The company, which had already obtained mining lease for Kumaraswamy deposit in Karnataka and deposit-11B in Bailadilla (Chhattisgarh), expects to increase its production by 65-70 per cent with these new and existing mines in the next three …
- IAS officers bring glory to East Singhbhum, Pakur Puja Singhal Purwar and Nitin Madan Kulkarni At a time when the state is plagued by controversies over the National Rural Employment Guarantee, two IAS officers have brought pride and glory. Puja Singhal Purwar and Nitin Madan Kulkarni will receive national …
No rules to check illegal practices in iron ore-rich Jharkhand Folklore has it that when iron ore explorers first came to Jharkhand, they were surprised to find tribesmen using axes made of iron. When asked about the source of the iron, the tribesmen pointed to a hill and called it …
- Birsa Munda Zoological Park allows individuals and organisations to adopt animals and birds ANEETA SHARMA Take your pick: A tiger and birds at the Birsa Munda Zoological Park in Ranchi. File pictures Ranchi, Jan. 29: Like someone you saw at the zoo? Now, you can adopt them too. The …
