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 …
Manoj Prasad Posted: Sep 11, 2008 at 2321 hrs IST Ranchi, September 10 For Akhilesh Kumar, trapped in the Kosi flood, the only ray of hope came through his cellphone.
ANKUSH SINGH Posers on canal project Jamshedpur, Sept. 7: Four large and medium irrigation projects of the state water resources department in Kolhan have failed to take off in the absence of land clearance from the forest department. While the Sunwa, Jharjhara and Natki projects fall under West Singhbhum, the …
Jamshedpur, Sept. 5: BJP legislator from Jamshedpur (west) Sarayu Roy today served an ultimatum to the state government asking them to start the Mango drinking water project by September 20. The water project has been hanging in balance for the past three years.
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi September 04, 2008, 1:33 IST Tata Motors decision to suspend work indefinitely in Singur underlines the rise of civil society movements in the last decade in the context of land acquisition by industry aided by government, and more recently in the context of the SEZ …
In India, mining is one of the main economic activities since time immemorial, giving rise to a long historical tradition of artisanal mining. As modern mining rose during the colonial occupation, artisanal mining activities began to be overlooked and this great tradition became obscure. This invisibility, added with confusion with …
Food gatherer and rope maker tribals in Jharkhand become cultivators Members of two primitive tribes in East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, are trying to retain their forestland in a unique manner. The sabars and birhors, food gatherers and rope makers, have taken to cultivation. They have cleared tracts of forestland on …
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai August 22, 2008, 3:33 IST Miners in eastern India, especially within a radius of 200 km from the Orissa and Jharkhand borders have decided to build a road more than 600 km long, with an estimated expenditure of Rs 300 crore. Approximately, 80 per cent …
Participants at the Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Diwas celebration held by JREDA. Picture by Hardeep Singh Ranchi, Aug. 20: Renewable energy sources need to be tapped to solve power problems in villages across the state. Speaking at the Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Samaroh organised at the Town Hall to mark …
Ranchi: Three successive bandhs in the last seven days have pushed Tenughat Vidyut Nigam Ltd (TVNL), the major thermal power generating unit of the state, on the brink of a disaster. The BJP-sponsored two- hour Bharat bandh on August 13, CPI(Maoists) sponsored Jharkhand bandh on August 19 and the bandh …
Dumka: Hundreds of people took to the streets today under the banner of Jharkhand Ulgulan Manch in protest against the arrest of a person spearheading a movement opposing the proposed power plant in the area. The arrest of Hopna Baski, the village head of Amgachhi, agitated residents to such an …
SAIL, the largest steel producer in India, is preparing to modernise and expand its facilities in its golden jubilee year. AT a time of great global uncertainty in the commodity markets one company has stood firm and delivered unprecedented profits in the volatile steel industry. It is India
Saplings planted on the roadside of Argora bypass road by the forest department. Picture by Hardeep Singh Ranchi, Aug. 13: With an aim to revive the good old pleasant days in the state capital, the forest department has started tree plantation in the town this monsoon. And the noble task …
Ranchi, Aug. 13: The National Bank for Rural and Agriculture Development (Nabard) has decided to introduce and promote cultivation of noni (morinda citrifolia)
Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research, Digwadih Campus (Erstwhile Central Fuel Research Institute) under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is a premier research organisation of international repute devoted to R&D; work - both fundamental and applied on Indian fuel resources, especially coal and lignite.
RUDRA BISWAS Ranchi, Aug. 3: While the state is reeling from severe power crisis, the lack of Tenughat Vidyut Nigam Limited (TVNL) chairman is a spanner in generating capacity power at the plant. Equipped with two units with a total installed capacity of 440 MW, TVNL is being forced to …
CHECKOUT - PUSHPA GIRIMAJI Consumers are often victims of poor quality water supplied by civic authorities. Besides water borne diseases, in many districts of the country, consumers suffer the debilitating effects of high levels of toxic heavy metals and even pesticides and other chemicals in water. Now two recent orders …
The newly formed national laboratory, the Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR) Dhanbad, is a constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) was aimed to provide R&D; inputs for the entire coal-energy chain from mining to Consumption through integration of the Core Competencies of the …
