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 …
BAU vice-chancellor N.N. Singh (left) felicitates adviser to governor G. Krishnan at a convention in Ranchi on Sunday. Picture by Hardeep Singh Ranchi, Feb. 15: Here
Pits close to Grand Trunk Road set off alarm bells An abandoned pit in Dhanbad from where coal is extracted illegally. Picture by Gautam Dey Dhanbad, Feb. 12: The figure is startling. Officials in Dhanbad have spotted as many as 118 abandoned mine pits that are being used to extract …
Farming in progress at the polyhouse. Picture by Hardeep Singh Ranchi, Feb. 11: Rasila Kothari (50), a floriculturist, is slogging away to meet the Saturday deadline. The brain behind this mega project, along with 25 staff members, is taking care of 30,000 Dutch roses grown on one acre of land …
Ranchi, Feb. 8: Anti-smoking squads formed by the state government last month to enforce Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rules have swung into action, imposing fines on business establishments of the city. The first two offenders brought to book were two business establishments located beside Kanke Road near the …
Director-general of ICAR Mangla Roy inaugurates a poultry centre at BAU on Sunday. Picture by Manik Bose Ranchi, Feb. 8: Birsa Agriculture University (BAU), Ranchi, is well on the path to take its annual piglet production from 600 to over 2,000 per year, thanks to a mega seed project funded …
Ranchi, Feb. 5: The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plans to increase its present capacity of 30,000MW to 51,000MW by the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan. And for this, it is planning to hold talks with the state government so that it can set up units in the state. …
SHALINI SABOO Officials of the State Pollution Control Board, CCL and students of Birsa School clean up the Kanke dam area during an awareness campaign. Picture by Manik Bose Ranchi, Feb. 2: The state capital would soon be free of polythene bags. A sincere effort is being made to get …
- Special device filters unwanted signals from space to make room for important data SANTOSH K. KIRO TECH WIZARD: Srikanta Pal of BIT, Mesra Ranchi, Feb. 2: A research scientist of Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, has done the country proud. A data filter device developed by Srikanta Pal, …
- IAS officers bring glory to East Singhbhum, Pakur Puja Singhal Purwar and Nitin Madan Kulkarni At a time when the state is plagued by controversies over the National Rural Employment Guarantee, two IAS officers have brought pride and glory. Puja Singhal Purwar and Nitin Madan Kulkarni will receive national …
- Birsa Munda Zoological Park allows individuals and organisations to adopt animals and birds ANEETA SHARMA Take your pick: A tiger and birds at the Birsa Munda Zoological Park in Ranchi. File pictures Ranchi, Jan. 29: Like someone you saw at the zoo? Now, you can adopt them too. The …
OUR CORRESPONDENT Ranchi, Jan. 20: At a time when industries are busy formulating innovative and cost-effective technology to tide over the economic crisis, they should also spare a thought for the environment. Efforts should be taken to ensure a cleaner environment. Reduction of emission during coke making is one way …
AMIT GUPTA The Regional Science Centre coming up near Morabadi. Picture by Manik Bose Ranchi, Jan. 19: Learning science will be fun once the capital gets the state
Ranchi, Jan. 15: The country is rapidly heading towards an oil crisis in the days to come and to help check the situation, oil companies of the state today joined hands to spread awareness about the need to conserve oil and gas among the masses. For the next 14 days, …
OUR CORRESPONDENT No relief from rough ride Ranchi, Jan. 11: Besides the fate of techies, the future of the proposed four-laning project of National Highway 33, too, seems to be hanging in the balance. This time the hitch is due to Maytas Infra Private Limited, a company headed by former …
- Leisure centre, seed bank all rolled into one pretty spot at doranda SANTOSH K. KIRO Ranchi, Jan. 2: The new year has brought in great news for residents of the state capital interested in fishing. A multi-purpose fish park will open doors in the heart of the city later …
Ranchi, Dec. 23: The state may lose most of the already reduced, but yet large, sum of Rs 1,160.13 crore promised to it by the Centre under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The plan is to revamp three cities
BIT, Mesra, vice-chancellor P.K. Barhai (left) felicitates Malaviya National Institute of Technology director R.P. Dahiya during the meet in Ranchi on Monday. Picture by Hardeep Singh Ranchi, Dec. 15: The dream of clean and danger-free nuclear energy through nuclear fusion would become a reality in the country only by 2050. …
With the approval of various bodies mandatory for doing business of genetically engineered (GE) crops, none should be unduly worried about the use of the crops, the member secretary of the Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation, Dr K.K. Tripathy has said.
Twenty tribals, including nine of the Birhor tribe, on the verge of extinction, died in Chatra district, Jhar-khand in October. State government attributed the deaths to food poisoning while social workers claimed they died of hunger. A report in early November, by a committee set up by the state government …
