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 …
- School bags seventh position in national environment awareness project ANTARA BOSE Jamshedpur, Dec. 23: Kerala Public School is set to change the adage
BIT, Mesra, vice-chancellor P.K. Barhai (left) felicitates Malaviya National Institute of Technology director R.P. Dahiya during the meet in Ranchi on Monday. Picture by Hardeep Singh Ranchi, Dec. 15: The dream of clean and danger-free nuclear energy through nuclear fusion would become a reality in the country only by 2050. …
With the approval of various bodies mandatory for doing business of genetically engineered (GE) crops, none should be unduly worried about the use of the crops, the member secretary of the Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation, Dr K.K. Tripathy has said.
Twenty tribals, including nine of the Birhor tribe, on the verge of extinction, died in Chatra district, Jhar-khand in October. State government attributed the deaths to food poisoning while social workers claimed they died of hunger. A report in early November, by a committee set up by the state government …
Death knell? Some old auto-rickshaws in the capital If the traffic police have its way, brakes will be applied on all vehicles, particularly auto-rickshaws and commercial vehicles, which are more than 10 years old. The traffic police have sent a petition to the state transport department, urging it to ban …
Soon tribals would not have to travel far for treatment. Non-government organisations (NGOs) will do more than just social service. The state government will now entrust them with the job of running hospitals. The plan is to be implemented at as many as 14 locations across the state. Each hospital …
A three-member team from Global Tiger Forum today visited Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary to make an assessment of the gamepark. Headed by S.C. Dey, the secretary-general of the forum, the team will be assessing various aspect of the sanctuary like its development since the creation of the state. During the assessment, …
Traffic movement came to a halt today when residents of Kandra and Gamharia in Seraikela-Kharsawan district blocked the road for over four hours, protesting against the rising pollution level because of sponge-iron units. The protesters squatted on the road blocking it with their cycles and tractors and refused to budge …
At a review meeting of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, block development officers of East Singhbhum district were directed to hike the wage of labourers in accordance with the revised structure. The meeting was held at East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Rabindra Kumar Agarwal
The state government today said Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) and thermal power plants in the Damodar Valley are the biggest contributors to the polluted Damodar and asked them to clean-up their act. Chief secretary A.K. Basu, who today reviewed the pollution-level of the Damodar at …
Doomsday focus in green talks - Debate shows how ill-informed People are about environmental hazards OUR CORRESPONDENT The debate in progress at the Tata Auditorium in Jamshedpur. Global warming, deforestation and other environmental issues might be pushing the world towards its doomsday and haunting the green army, but we tend …
The groundwork for setting up four integrated steel plants in Dumka and Jamtara is likely to begin next month. The state government has agreed to renew the MoUs that expired in February this year and has directed officials to initiate necessary steps to make the proposed industries functional at the …
Jamshedpur: With the state recording an increase in the number of malnourished children, the government has embarked on a project to set up malnutrition treatment centres (MTCs) in the districts on the lines of Rajasthan. The first such centre will start functioning in Ghatshila from mid-December. Another will open in …
B MuthuramanLiquidity crisis and demand slowdown has forced Tata Steel, the country's largest steel maker, to put brakes on its greenfield projects in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. However, it will continue with its expansion plans at Jamshedpur and the construction of a 3-million tonne (MT) plant at Kalinganagar in Orissa, said …
New home for Dalma herd in season of harvest - Tuskers cosy up in bamboo grove developed by forest department, calf born on Sunday Migrating tuskers from Dalma have found shelter in Charchakka forest For the first time, tuskers from Dalma have found the perfect shelter. Their new home has …
Jamshedpur, Nov. 30: Industrial units are now facing a fresh challenge. The fixed power tariff plan of the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) is adding to their heavy burden of losses. The fall in the demand of their products has either limited production or led industrial units of the Adityapur …
The objectives of this study were: ?to examine the various issues associated with irrigation potential creation, irrigation potential utilization, gross irrigation and net irrigation including the definition, the reporting practices and consistencies in the data; ?to suggest procedures for collection of related data to be applied uniformly throughout the country; …
