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, Jan. 8: The state government is working extra hard to implement the mid-day meal scheme in all the schools of East Singhbhum district but minority-run institutions have requested to spare them from the scheme. If such is the situation, the mid-day meal scheme would not be implemented in government …
ANTARA BOSE All for golden harvest Jamshedpur, Jan. 7: Farmers are getting smart. They are making organic fertilisers to reap more profits. Farmers belonging to self-help groups registered under Subernarekha Mahila Mandal Kheti Bari Utpadak Samuh, a co-operative society, will now be adopting vermi compost fertilisers to increase the productivity …
ANTARA BOSE Jamshedpur, Jan. 6: Gone are the days when the primitive tribes of Musabani block in East Singhbhum used to depend on hunting to earn their livelihood. Now, the Sabars, a backward tribe residing at Joblakocha in the block, are slowly embracing a civilised life. After taking up farming, …
- Leisure centre, seed bank all rolled into one pretty spot at doranda SANTOSH K. KIRO Ranchi, Jan. 2: The new year has brought in great news for residents of the state capital interested in fishing. A multi-purpose fish park will open doors in the heart of the city later …
RUDRA BISWAS G.K. Pillai: New avenues Ranchi, Jan. 1: Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited. Ranchi (HEC) has resolved to forge into new avenues of nuclear and thermal power, setting itself ambitious goals to tide over the economic downturn that threatens to loom over the New Year. The move, explained CMD G.K.Pillai, …
Development of tourism is essential for socio-economic improvement of Jharkhand. As an alternative to conventional mass-tourism, eco-tourism plays one of the key-roles in sustainable development. Sustainable tourism is synonym of eco-tourism.
With reference to the application dated 08.11.2008 of M/S Bokaro Steel Plant, B.S.City Bokaro for consent under Section 25/26 of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and that under section 21 of the Air (Prevention & control of Pollution) Act, 1981
As nuclear waste maims people, India plans to generate more INDIA intends to increase the share of nuclear power from 3.1 per cent of its total energy generation to 25 per cent by 2050. Six nuclear power reactors are under construction and eight are in the pipeline. While the country …
An interview with Tilman A Ruff, Australian head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). At Jadugoda in East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, he observed a human settlement perilously close to the mines of Uranium Corporation of India. Tilman A Ruff, Australian head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear …
If things work according to plan, villages in Jharkhand will soon generate electricity for their own consumption. Dhanbad-based Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research has shown them the way. The institute has discovered a process of generating electricity at a cheap rate from plant waste, particularly from putus, a …
1. STICKING TO A CAUSE Chipko Movement, 1973 The 1980s saw the debate on environment move from just deforestation to the larger issues of depletion of natural resources
Bharat Jan Andolan founder and former commissioner of the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Commission, Brahmadeo Sharma, justified the agitation at Kathikund in Dumka. He said it was wrong on the part of the state government to allow capitalists to start their projects in the rural areas without taking the gram sabha …
Ranchi, Dec. 24: A day after BJP legislator from Jamshedpur (West) Sarayu Roy demanded a CBI probe into the Ghaturi iron-ore mine controversy, the state government went on the defensive today. Though Jharkhand High Court had quashed the petition of six companies, recommended by the state for using the mine …
Clay filters promise clean drinking water in villages - Terafil technology to benefit Chakdoha & Chapri in Ghatshila, pilot project to encourage self-employment Terafil technology will not only ensure clean drinking water in villages but also turn the rural people into entrepreneurs. Chakdoha and Chapri, two villages of Ghatshila in …
Ranchi, Dec. 23: The state may lose most of the already reduced, but yet large, sum of Rs 1,160.13 crore promised to it by the Centre under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The plan is to revamp three cities
