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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sudarsan Das Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 10/01/2019 regarding illegal sand mining on the banks of river Subarnarekha on borders of West Bengal and Odisha. NGT directs the Jharkhand Pollution Control Board (JPCB) to coordinate the functioning …
At a time when multiple agencies are involved in the rescue of 15 miners trapped in a rathole mine in Meghalaya, data tabled in the Lok Sabha earlier this week revealed that 377 workers involved in mining of coal, minerals and oil were killed in accidents between 2015 and 2017. …
Farmers are eagerly awaiting their crop compensation in villages falling in and around Palamu tiger reserve. Standing crop and harvested crop both are destroyed and damaged by herd of elephants. Standing crop is raided by herd of pachyderms in the fields while harvested crop stored in barns which are always …
RANCHI: Jharkhand forest department is finding itself in a fix after receiving a letter from Union ministry of environment, forests and climate change asking all the states to immediately ban the use of polythene for raising seedlings of saplings in their nurseries for afforestation or other purposes. The letter titled …
The Government of India, the Government of Jharkhand and the World Bank signed here today in New Delhi a $310 million Loan Agreement for Jharkhand Power System Improvement Project to provide reliable, quality, and affordable 24x7 electricity to the citizens of Jharkhand. The Jharkhand Power System Improvement Project will help …
The apex body of Durga Puja committees, Jamshedpur Kendriya Durga Puja Samiti (JKDPS) has decided to focus on environmental protection during this festive season. The apex body of puja committees in the city has asked 311 puja committees to make elaborate arrangements for that. Ram Babu Singh, general secretary of …
Entomophagy is practised on a large scale by the tribal communities in North East India compared to eastern and southern states. Termites, honey bees, grasshoppers, stink bugs, aquatic insects and silkworms are common and preferred insect species because they contain high amount of protein, fat, minerals and vitamins. Silkworms are …
Coming down heavily on the opposition, Modi said that they always looked at the poor as vote banks, throwing freebies at them only to win the elections. He also stressed that PMJAY was yet another example of the slogan Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas. DESCRIBING IT as one of the biggest …
Jamshedpur: The jaundice outbreak in Dhatkidih that affected more than 400 residents since July was caused by the hepatitis E virus that is primarily transmitted orally owing to faecal contamination of drinking water, the probe by a two-member team from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has concluded. Senior …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of In Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/08/2018 regarding mining operations in Piparwar Open Cast Project, Jharkhand. This is an application moved by the Central Coalfields Ltd. in which it is prayed that …
Ranchi: Twenty-one new cases of chikungunya, three of dengue and three of dengue-chikungunya combined were detected at RIMS on Wednesday, the growing numbers of the vector-borne diseases in the capital prompting state entomologist (consulting) Sagya Singh to introduce a more lethal larvicide. So far, 128 chikungunya, 22 dengue and nine …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ram Lakhan Singh Vs State of Jharkhand dated 06/08/2018 regarding large scale encroachments of forest land in the various districts of State of Jharkhand and violation of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 in raising various constructions in the reserve forest. …
Ranchi: National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL), in Kanke on Wednesday became India's first law university to extensively use solar power on campus, with its students celebrating their freedom from blackouts. The solar power system at the law school was formally inaugurated on Wednesday evening by chief …
In October 2016, the Jharkhand Government directed all districts to use their District Mineral Foundation (DMF) investments for developing piped-water schemes and construction of toilets to meet the ODF targets. All investments since have focussed only on these two issues. And there are question marks over many of the piped …
The government's green panel has disapproved amendments to the environment clearance sought by Bharat Coking Coal for its Jharia Coalfields in Jharkhand due to the absence of forest clearance, as per the official document. The company's proposal was to amend the existing environment clearance given for the cluster XI group …
The most talked about issue that comes ahead of setting up any power plant in Jharkhand—compulsory power sharing agreement with the State—has gone for a major shift in the new energy policy draft brought out for consideration. Against the policy in place that binds any independent power projects (IPPs) setting …
Ranchi: Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has slapped a deadline of 30 days on unauthorised automobile service centres, asking them to get their units registered so that a no-objection certificate can be issued to them. Sources said the board's move, in the form of a notice issued on Wednesday, …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi pressed the button to start the country's first solar-powered district court in Khunti on October 2, 2015. Modi had arrived in the tribal heartland, four days after he emphasised on India's commitment to realise the vision of 175 GigaWatts of clean energy by 2022 at a …
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand together want to buy 3,000 MW of power under a government scheme to promote purchases from plants without PPAs. Under the scheme, PFC Consulting will conduct the auction for 2,500 MW capacity and PTC India will sign three-year (mid-term) PPAs with successful bidders and …
Jamshedpur: Monsoon hasn't arrived in Jharkhand, but dengue has. A 39-year-old woman, who was admitted to Tata Main Hospital (TMH) on June 18 with high fever, tested positive for the dengue virus on Saturday night, triggering an alarm against the vector-borne disease that stalks the steel city almost every year. …
