Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Vs State of Jharkhand dated 20/09/2023. The Original Application has been registered in exercise of suo motu power on the basis of the communication dated August 30, 2023 received by the tribunal. Allegation is that …
Movement of vehicles at Karandih-Hata Road came to a grinding halt for two hours this morning as activists of Jharkhand Disom Party (JDP) blocked the road as a part of the Jharkhand bandh. The bandh call was given opposing the rehabilitation and re-settlement (R&R;) policy, which was approved by the …
Jamshedpur, July 24: Tata Steel Zoological Society has lost a family member. Varsha, the ailing female leopard, died this morning in the zoo hospital. A post-mortem was done before the nine-year-old was put in an incinerator. A favourite among children, Varsha fell sick after liver complications about a month ago. …
Jamshedpur, July 24: Jindal Steel and Power Limited has opened its local office in the city to expedite the process of land acquisition for its greenfield project. The office that came up in New Baradwari would deal with the process of land acquisition for its proposed 5-million-tonne steel plant project. …
chlorine leak at a private residential area in Jamshedpur affected about 300 residents on May 27. The cause of the leak was traced to Tata Motors dumping an unused chlorine cylinder, once used by its water treatment plant, in the vicinity of the housing colony about 10 years ago. The …
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 …
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 …
CROSSING OVER: A little girl in Rajasthan goes to a state school supported by Mahindra & Mahindra Every year, the 100-year old Tata Steel trains batches of 10-15 unskilled women to operate cranes, earth movers and blast furnaces at its Jamshedpur plant. Eschewing cleaning, sweeping and odd jobs, the women, …
Tender plant: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh plants a sapling during the centenary year celebrations of the Tata Steel at JRD Tata Sports complex in Jamshedpur on Tuesday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday urged the steel industry not to fall prey to the temptation of seeking windfall gains from market …
could the old newspapers piling up in the storeroom help treat waste water? Experiments have shown how newspapers can be used to remove heavy metals from industrial waste water. A study at the National Metallurgical Laboratory in Jamshedpur and Pune's National Chemical Laboratory tested the cellulose in the pulp used …
oil sans cholesterol: A Chinese farmer has developed a technique that can help produce cholesterol-free edible oil from tea seeds. Fang Shunzhong of the Jinhua city, said that 14 kilogramme (kg) of high-quality oil of a transparent yellow colour can be produced out of 100 kg of tea seeds. At …
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is hoping that an international convention will get accepted on industrial disasters like Bhopal at this year's session of the International Labour Conference, commencing in Geneva in early June. The convention aims to set comprehensive safety standards and protocols for controlling flammable materials and toxic …
