Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Ranchi, July 31: A reservoir project, which was proposed to provide water to National Thermal Power Corporation’s (NTPC) thermal power plant in Chatra district, has been lying abandoned for two years. The Garhi reservoir scheme at Uttararhi village in Chatra’s Kamdara block was primarily aimed at providing water to NTPC’s …
Dumka, Feb. 15: Hundreds of BJP cadres and people under the leadership of Godda MP Nishikant Dubey today launched an agitation by blocking railway tracks at Jiyajori to disrupt supply of coal from Santhal Pargana. Dubey, who has been at the forefront of protests against the Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), …
Dumka, Feb. 9: Administrative officials of Deoghar had their hands full today controlling a mob of around a thousand people opposing construction work of the spillway of Punasi dam. The mob, which was opposing BJP MP from Godda Nishikant Dubey
Dumka, Jan. 13: At a time food prices are shooting up, farmers of Baskichak village and its adjoining areas have hit the protest path to save their perishing vegetables. Angry that deputy chief minister Hemant Soren was yet to keep his promise of ensuring electricity supply to the villages for …
Renowned industrialist and Congress MP Naveen Jindal today visited Godda in an attempt to set off acquisition of land for its proposed power plant site at the tribal dominated Sundarpahari block. Jindal called on deputy commissioner Virendra Kumar Mishra at his office and requested him to help speed up land …
Dumka, Oct. 26: It is the word of the village head against the civil surgeon on how many Paharias died of diarrhoea recently. On October 23, village head Nijri Paharia of Surajbeda under Littipara block of Pakur district submitted a petition to the office of regional deputy director of health …
Ranchi, Oct. 6: Aggressively pursuing ambitious projects in the Santhal Pargana region, Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) has found its guru in Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad. The steel major today signed an MoU with ISM for expertise in environment and water resources management, mining moderation and training …
Dumka, Sept. 27: At least six persons have tested positive for dengue in the past week, claim private pathologists and doctors here. All six exhibited symptoms of the disease after arriving from dengue-affected places like Delhi and Ranchi. However, Dumka civil surgeon S.N. Jha and district malaria officer P.P. Mishra …
In Saraiyahat block of Dumka district in Jharkhand, a state administration board announces completion of a dam and pond for Janardan Yadav of Pagwara village under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme at an estimated cost of Rs 190,364. The project — code 3411002011 is mentioned on the …
Ranchi, Sept. 12: A centrally sponsored adult education scheme of the department of school education and literacy, Saakshar Bharat Programme, will start soon in the districts of Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Dumka and Dhanbad, focussing on women
Ranchi, July 27: If all goes well, Jharkhand may be the second state after Andhra Pradesh to go for the rubber dam, which promises zero displacement and eco-friendly construction. The state water resources department today explored the feasibility of rubber dams, especially for rivers on hilly terrain, in a meeting …
Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL), which is planning to set up a 2,640MW power plant in Sikaripara and Raneshwar blocks of Dumka district, has expedited its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to win over villagers. A slew of welfare programmes have been started by the JSPL authorities to woo …
Dumka, May 3: Water crisis of thousands of villagers in the region would soon be over with a voluntary organisation taking the initiative to make the government repair defunct tube-wells. With its limited resources, Janmat Research Centre first motivated its workers to conduct a survey of defunct hand pump sets …
Larsen & Toubro (L&T;) has proposed to set up a thermal power plant in Jharkhand, reports Navtan Kumar from Ranchi. Raghubar Das, deputy chief minister, who also happens to be in charge of the energy ministry, said a high level team of L&T; officials met him this week in this …
Two recent incidents of assault on officials of Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) in Santhal Pargana has prompted officials of the Congress MP Naveen Jindal
Dumka, March 2: The polio spectre seems to be looming large on Santhal Pargana with doctors suspecting four new cases in Rajmahal and Uduwa blocks under Rajmahal sub-division of Sahebganj district. According to sources, the medical officer of Rajmahal sub-divisional hospital, Dr Alimuddin, and a doctor at Uduwa primary health …
Creating awareness Ranchi, Feb. 3: The USAID has roped in media consultant Aishwarya Communication to spread awareness about maternal anaemia in nondescript villages of Santhal Pargana, particularly in Godda and Dumka. Through All India Radio
Dumka, Jan. 19: The state government will help farmers who have taken the initiative to help themselves. The Dumka district administration has decided to reimburse fuel costs of all farmers who had either bought or borrowed pump sets to irrigate their parched paddy fields in the wake of the drought-like …