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 …
ARUN KUMAR THAKUR K.C. Shashidhar Ranchi, Jan. 29: Jharkhand has a huge potential for absorbing credit in agriculture and allied sectors, an assessment done by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has revealed. The assessment was carried out to prepare a base for the state
AMIT GUPTA Ranchi, Jan. 28: The state has asked Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company (Jusco) to justify its claim of a rate 23 per cent higher than the estimated cost of Rs 52.50 crore for execution of the Mango water supply project. Although Jusco, a 100 per cent subsidiary of …
Jamshedpur, Jan. 27: The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has decided to serve notices to three civic bodies for polluting river Subernarekha, considered the lifeline of Singhbhum. Senior officials said that the decision was taken following a survey that revealed how untreated sewage water was being released into the …
BHUBANESWAR: The main canals of the Subarnarekha multi-purpose irrigation project on both sides of Orissa and Jharkhand nearing completion, the State Government is hopeful of receiving water for irrigation from the project by the end of this year. After a three-day visit to various project sites of the inter-state irrigation …
KUMUD JENAMANI Thinking big Jamshedpur, Jan. 22: The ancillary units of Tata Motors may have a reason to rejoice. The automobile major has set a tentative production target of 4,000 trucks for the month of February, double the number fixed for the months of December and January. Sources in the …
Praduman Choubey War on global warming: CIMFR, Dhanbad Dhanbad, Jan. 21: Frequent fires in the mines of Jharia and Raniganj and the alarming rate of emission of greenhouse gases have left the coal ministry concerned. At a time when the world is seriously scouting for ways to battle global warming, …
OUR CORRESPONDENT Ranchi, Jan. 20: At a time when industries are busy formulating innovative and cost-effective technology to tide over the economic crisis, they should also spare a thought for the environment. Efforts should be taken to ensure a cleaner environment. Reduction of emission during coke making is one way …
AMIT GUPTA The Regional Science Centre coming up near Morabadi. Picture by Manik Bose Ranchi, Jan. 19: Learning science will be fun once the capital gets the state
- Survey on medicinal properties of species KUMUD JENAMANI Friends in need: A herd of elephants at Dalma Jamshedpur, Jan. 19: After providing homes to animals at the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, the authorities are now looking forward to prepare a biodiversity register. For this, the authorities will carry out an …
KUMUD JENAMANI Jamshedpur, Jan. 18: A migratory herd of tuskers from the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary have been pushed back halfway from the bordering Purulia district of Bengal. Forest officials engaged a hulla party to chase away the herd after a tusker allegedly trampled a villager and damaged vast swathes of …
CONTRACTORS are banned for work under the NREGA, but the survey found that they were in fact involved at 27 per cent of the sample worksites. The worst State in this respect was Jharkhand, where contractors were found at more than half (57 per cent) the sample worksites. A common …
NREGA Survey 2008 was conducted in May-June 2008. It covered 10 districts spread over six North Indian States (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh). The sample districts were Araria and Kaimur (Bihar), Surguja (Chhattisgarh), Koderma and Palamau (Jharkhand), Badwani and Sidhi (Madhya Pradesh), Dungarpur and Sirohi (Rajasthan) …
OUR CORRESPONDENT Officials at a review meeting. Pix: Srinivas Jamshedpur, Jan. 15: The cost of the ambitious Subernarekha Multipurpose Project (SMP) has swelled to Rs 5,500 crore. The earlier estimate, drawn last year, had amounted to Rs 5,200 crore. After a review meeting at Nirmal Guest House, officials blamed the …
Ranchi, Jan. 15: The country is rapidly heading towards an oil crisis in the days to come and to help check the situation, oil companies of the state today joined hands to spread awareness about the need to conserve oil and gas among the masses. For the next 14 days, …
No land for power plant, no entry to outsiders, say villagers THIRTY kilometres from Dumka town in Jharkhand is a village where 150 families are resolute about not giving up their land for a proposed power plant. Bloodshed only made their resolve stronger when on December 6, 2008, one villager …
- Green hub will also act as knowledge centre on environment for schoolchildren KUMUD JENAMANI Site of the proposed park in Adityapur. Pix: Bhola Prasad Jamshedpur, Jan. 13: A green hub is all set to enliven the otherwise drab surroundings of Adityapur. The forest department has decided to develop a …
OUR CORRESPONDENT No relief from rough ride Ranchi, Jan. 11: Besides the fate of techies, the future of the proposed four-laning project of National Highway 33, too, seems to be hanging in the balance. This time the hitch is due to Maytas Infra Private Limited, a company headed by former …
