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 …
To stage dharna outside Jharkhand Bhavan on June 20 Expresses concern over protection of those conducting surveys, social audits NEW DELHI: Several members of the Central Employment Guarantee Council who had demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry into the murder of social activist Lalit Mehta at Palamau in Jharkhand …
NEW DELHI: More than 100 eminent people from different walks of life have come together to condemn violence on social activists in Jharkhand and demand a CBI probe into the killing of Lalit Mehta and the widespread corruption in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme. They have …
Is rising food price making you shrink your dinner spread? Don't. Why not try your hand at some millet recipes? That may not only bring down your food budget, but also enhance the nutritional value of your meals. But there is a small catch. You will have to visit the …
With a latest report projecting the country's mining industry to touch over $30 billion (about Rs 1,27,662 crore) accounting for about 2.5% of the GDP in the next four years, pertinent questions still remain if the sector can live up to the hype and noise of its potential. "Considering India's …
An elephant and her one-year-old calf were electrocuted near Dimna lake near here on Monday. The incident occurred when the calf, which was walking ahead of its mother, came in contact with a hanging live wire near the lake. The mother elephant rushed to rescue her child and too came …
The tribals est the sleepy village of Kalyandi in Jharkhand depend on fish farming for living. However, till last year, the hectic activity would come to a grinding halt in May. The reason: non-availability of water in the ponds. This May, fish farming is on in full swing and the …
Earlier this year there was yet another leak of radioactive sludge from UCIL's uranium plant in Jadugoda, Jharkhand. The accident and the dismissive official response to it clearly show the low priority the nuclear establishment accords to the safety of Jadugoda's people.
Two Tata Motors officials, water treatment plant in-charge BK Sarkar and DGM (safety) Samir K Ghatak, were arrested on Wednesday night from their residences. They were arrested on the charges of negligence in the chlorine gas leakage case at the company's water treatment plant earlier this week. Soon after chief …
A public hearing on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) will be held at Chhattarpur in Palamau district, Jharkhand, on Monday. It is the concluding event of a two-week survey of NREGA in the area, initiated by a team of researchers from the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad. …
The national rural employment guarantee scheme completes two years and moves to cover all the districts in the country. Has it been worth it? The plateau above Mokhada is a denuded forest, an ecological disaster. This taluka in the Thane district bordering Gujarat was once a lush forest. Now there …
All schools across the country will have toilet facilities by the year end, Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said on Thursday. While Sikkim, Puducherry, Mizoram and Haryana have already achieved this target, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Rajasthan will do …
National Mineral Policy will unlock the mining businessThe mineral-producing states have raised the ante against the National Mineral Policy 2008, tabled in Parliament recently. Their grouse is that it intrudes into their rights over the minerals produced in their respective states and is tilted in favour of foreign mining companies …
Bokaro: With the Lok Sabha elections just a year away, PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday turned the foundation-laying ceremony of the Bokaro Steel Plant's expansion and modernisation programme into an occasion for announcing sops for Jharkhand. He said the Centre was planning to open a new university and an institute …
BOKARO (Jharkhand): Union chemical, fertiliser and steel minister, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan today announced plans for setting up of a 12 million ton greenfield steel plant in Jharkhand, but only if the iron ore dispute is settled with the Jharkhand state government. "The steel ministry is keen to set up …
The government has assured that it is taking measures to ensure that people living in areas affected by subterranean fire and subsidence in the coal mining areas of West Bengal and Jharkhand are shifted. This was stated by Union minister of state for coal mines Santosh Bagrodia in the Lok …
It began as an idea that had more to do with filling up the coffers of state governments than tackling the actual concerns of climate change. Coal-rich states, which are witnessing private power producers line up for a piece of action, began flexing their muscles by demanding an environmental cess …
The government on Thursday informed the Rajya Sabha that as many as 67 underground fires have been raging in the Jharia coalfields in Jharkhand for several decades, affecting 98,000 families. At the time of nationalisation of coal mines in the 1970s, 70 fires were raging in the area that came …
With India looking forward to having good relations with the democratically elected Maoists in Nepal, New Delhi on Wednesday made it clear that there was no specific evidence to indicate any nexus between naxals of both the countries. Though India had stated this on earlier occasions as well, the statement
Step into Jharkahnd's Tentoposi village in Seraikela district and you will be greeted with hostile glances. Sitting on rich mineral reserves of iron ore, residents of this village are constantly under the fear of displacement and loss of livelihood sources. Tata Steel has already announced that it will set up …
