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 …
At least 207 people had died in Delhi because of acute respiratory infections (ARI) in 2016, the year the city witnessed its most severe episodes of air pollution, compared to the situations in previous years. At least 207 people had died in Delhi because of acute respiratory infections (ARI) in …
State-run power giant NTPC revised its installed and commercial capacities downward to 51,383 MW and 50,583 MW respectively after the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) deleted its 325 MW capacity of Patratu plant. In last May, the company had informed BSE about addition of 325 MW of Patratu Thermal Power Station …
ICMR to monitor 2000 patients in Jharkhand to determine role of good diet. Can a healthy diet stave off tuberculosis? The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will monitor 2000 TB patients in Jharkhand and additionally ensure that they are well fed to determine the extent to which a good …
Joining hands to embrace the change, the blanket ban call on ploythene bags which had created much hue and cry in the past is slowly gathering acceptance by the residents of the capital city all. For 35-year old Geetanjali, a homemaker, the State government’s call to completely ban the use …
Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Saryu Roy, who has also been a major driving force behind cleansing dangerously polluted Damodar River, has urged the Union Government to fund a related study to be taken up by Central Institute of Mines and Fuel Research (CIMFR). The proposal submitted by the …
This paper is one in a series of briefings that analyse how the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) builds rural households’ resilience to different climate shocks. This paper examines how MGNREGS is helping households in West Singhbhum District, Jharkhand, India, build resilience to drought. The goal of …
The Rockfeller Foundation, which has committed USD 50 million for mini power grids in India, is looking for public private partnerships to facilitate setting up of such projects, according to a senior official. So far, the foundation has facilitated setting up of 106 mini power grids in as many villages …
The DVC has been incurring losses due to the 1,200-MW Raghunathpur power plant, the estimated financial bleeding at Rs 70 crore per month. The Damodar Valley Corporation Ltd might “drop” plans to transfer its Raghunathpur thermal power plant to a joint venture with NLC India Ltd, owing to a delay …
This scheme empowers mining districts to levy a charge on all mining operations to create a fund that would be used to mitigate harmful effects of mining and to benefit local people At present, if a company has a mine with 10 mt capacity but is extracting only four mt, …
In another five years, the number of obese children in the world will outnumber the malnourished ones. A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Imperial College London, published in medical journal 'The Lancet', stated on Wednesday that obesity rates among the world's children and adolescents increased from less …
According to the study, 13 more incidents like these are noticed with the passing of each decade, thus making floods an annual affair for the people in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. THE rain fury that lashed Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar and Assam this …
- Experts say abandoned quarters breeding vector Cases of dengue fever have touched a seven-year high in Jamshedpur, with 362 people being hospitalised till date compared to only 59 in the neighbouring districts of West Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan combined, and this despite claims of determined efforts to check the scourge. …
Coal India BSE 1.89 % subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Limited can face a penalty of more than Rs 20,000 crore in the wake of a Supreme Court order that rendered illegal all mineral production in violation of environmental laws. The Odisha government is evaluating the company’s liability after the top court …
Power sector experts believe that the country restored immense possibilities in the field of utilisation of renewable energy which could work wonders in especially in states like Jharkhand. However, most of them also believe that the political will-power and government’s extra-mile approach needed to take things forward. In an All …
RANCHI: The Ranchi University (RU) is the lone varsity among the five state varsities to adopt 'Green India Mission' scheme and install solar panels on the rooftops of five academic buildings at its Mohrabadi campus. Varsity sources said its electricity bill had come down drastically from Rs 7 lakh every …
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today said development is necessary but it should not be at the cost of environment. "Development is necessary for the rapidly changing economy. But the government doesn t favour development at the cost of environment," Das said after planting seedlings in the under construction legislative …
A country-wide elephant census has pegged the number of pachyderms in the country at 27,000, of which 514 roam the forests of north Bengal. According to experts, this is the first reliable count of elephants in the wild as the exercise was carried out in a synchronised manner to eliminate …
Out of the 20 lakh, over four lakh people were affected in the last 24 hours alone, while 2,301 people have been evacuated from their houses. T LEAST 16 people have died and more than 20 lakh people affected in around 165 villages in the state following heavy rain caused …
Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Saryu Roy has asked Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) to execute the vision document prepared way back in 2012 for protection of environment and minimising air pollution. During a workshop on ‘Air Pollution: Crisis, Response and Action Plan’ on Saturday, the Minister …
Tata Steel's Noamundi mine became the country's first iron-ore mine to have solar plant for reducing carbon footprint. "With due consideration towards Tata Steel s initiatives towards reducing carbon footprint, a three MW solar photovoltaic(PV) power plant has been commissioned at Noamundi and this is the first solar power plant …
