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 …
Jharkhand is known for its mineral deposits and natural beauty but nowadays it is getting infamous for large scale illegal mining which is also damaging the nature and making the beautiful natural sites into an ugly landscape. Hazaribagh district which is famous for its scenic beauty is rapidly losing the …
To the dismay of the wildlife lovers and all concerned citizens, a project to prevent incidences of electrocution of wild animals, mainly elephants in their corridor in Nilgiri,has failed to take off. Although about four years have elapsed since clearing of the proposal following a joint meeting between the Forest …
The Drought-Prone Areas Programme and the Desert Development Programme launched by the Government of India during the 1970s used rainfall and irrigation as the two criteria to ameliorate the impact of drought in the targeted districts. This article revisits the eligibility criteria in light of the recent climatic classification and …
In what may be a serious embarrassment for the Congress government at the end of their 13 years rule in the state, Assam is among a few other states — Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh — which have less than 10 per cent tap water coverage. This came to light …
A Baradwari locality is set to be the first milestone in Jamshedpur’s journey towards becoming a slum-free city. Nearly 40,000 urban poor residing in Navjeevan Ashram in Devnagar will benefit of Centre’s flagship scheme Rajiv Awas Yojana by the end of this year. Based on a detailed project report submitted …
As part of its efforts to streamline environment issues in a realistic manner to assist development in Naxal-affected areas, the Centre will change some rules in the Forest Rights Act and Forest Conservation Act to step up economic activities in worst affected states including Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharashtra and West …
The coal ministry plans to auction about 25 coal blocks that were taken back from private firms over delays in developing them. These blocks have not attracted lawsuits so far. The recalled blocks mainly consist of small mines but do include some big ones like Mahal and Rajbar in Jharkhand, …
RANCHI: The drinking water and sanitation department is planning m-governance for better implementation of projects in urban and rural areas. The mobile-governance, which is likely to be launched on June 5 on the occasion of World Environment Day, is aimed at timely "implementation of projects". Ashish Kumar Saurabh, assistant state …
JUSCO, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Tata Steel as part of its CSR activities extended water tanker services to areas where there is acute water crisis and no provision of tap water. As a responsible corporate, JUSCO has provided two mini trucks mounted with water tanker of 4000 liter …
One of the major water bodies in Ranchi —Kanke Dam — that hitherto supplied water to thousands of houses settled around its periphery has been obliged with waste emanating from human activities concentrated around it and has put the reservoir under serious threat of extinction in the days to come. …
To control illegal mining of coal, stone and other precious material, a meeting of all the departments and administration officials concerned took place on Saturday in North Chotanagpur division chaired by Commissioner Surendra Singh Meena. In the meeting, it became clear that every departmental head tried their best to throw …
As June inches closer, mercury is soaring across the country. Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a statement that heat wave conditions would prevail at a few places over Gangetic West Bengal and at isolated places over Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and southwest Madhya Pradesh. Maximum temperature is expected to go …
Water pipeline projects in Jharkhand could be in a shambles for varied reasons however irrespective of this the Drinking Water & Sanitation department is bringing innovative ideas and concept to bolster the delivery mechanism which in anyway is needed for the success of projects. In the endeavour to put up …
The Narendra Modi government is set to give a big push to India's power capacity addition programme by putting four 4,000 MW ultra-mega projects (UMPPs) up for bidding in its first year in office. Apart from the UMPPs at Bedabahal in Odisha and Cheyyur in Tamil Nadu, where the Power …
ArcelorMittal has plans to set up 12 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) steel plant in Jharkhand at an estimated investment of Rs 50,000 crore A central panel has asked Jharkhand to clarify soon whether the existing and proposed mining leases of ArcelorMittal for its planned Rs 50,000-crore plant in the …
A four-member team from environment NGO Yugantar Bharti laboratory (accredited to Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board) at Sidroul in Ranchi on Thursday collected water samples from Jubilee Lake under the supervision of NGO member KK Sharma. The team comprising Pawan Kumar, Sanjiv Kumar Singh, Dipankar Karmakar and Uday Mondal collected …
Reaffirming its commitment for environment conservation, Tata Steel dedicated the first fixed Bio-Toilet Unit at Auction Yard Gate at its Jamshedpur plant. Suresh Dutt Tripathi, vice president, HRM, Tata Steel, inaugurated the new facility. The construction of a conventional toilet and connecting it to the main sewer line was a …
The government has set up an inter-ministerial panel to examine applications from companies for the allotment of three coal blocks on tariff bidding. "An inter-ministerial committee under the chairmanship of secretary (Coal)...has been constituted with the approval of the competent authority," according to an official source. The 12-member panel will …
Order of the High Court of Jharkhand in the matter of Binod Ram Vs State of Jharkhand & Others dated 12/05/2014 regarding illegal mining and its transportation, West Singhbhum, Jharkhand.
Acute encephalitis in eastern States such as Odisha and Jharkhand is caused by viruses of dengue and measles too, a latest study has revealed. The study, which was recently published in the Epidemiology and Infection Journal, has showed that though herpes simplex virus (HSV) was a dominant agent for acute …
