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 …
A common criticism of the National Rural Employment Guarantee programme is that it does not lead to the creation of permanent assets and a sustained increase in incomes. This fi eld study of the construction of wells in one block in Ranchi district of Jharkhand shows that asset creation under …
Ranchi, Aug. 8: Farmers of the region, always in dire need of advice on crops and registering various plant varieties, will now have access to experts in Ranchi now that a branch office of a Delhi-based watchdog body has started functioning from the state capital. The branch office of Protection …
You can’t swallow it and you can’t spit it out. That’s the problem of state food and drug control department officials, who don’t know what to do with over 230 sacks of seized gutkha in the capital after the government banned its manufacture, sale and storage for its carcinogenic content …
Ranchi, Aug. 1: A day after the eastern grid collapse, Jharkhand’s districts continued to reel under outages today even though generation from the twin thermal power plants at Patratu and Tenughat slowly gathered momentum. Power officials, however, claimed with generation from the DVC plants as well from the northern grid …
The intention was good, the implementation poor. The Ranchi district administration did win brownie points with Jharkhand High Court by grounding more than 5,000 smoke-belching and ageing auto-rickshaws in the capital from August 1, but at the cost of commuter ordeal. The 55 city buses and less than 6,000 auto-rickshaws …
- Recharge pits spring hope for parched capital, MP funds to sprout vegetable bowl in steel hub Going beyond lip service and good intentions doing the rounds in Ranchi to recharge its groundwater, here is an experiment that might just avert a thirsty urban disaster over the years. The Jharkhand …
From a steel city to a vegetable bowl, Jamshedpur is ready for a paradigm shift in its identity with ponds, check dams and groundwater recharge models in the pipeline to end irrigation woes. A brainchild of local MP Ajoy Kumar, the project details for the city and its adjoining areas …
Play a dry Holi, save water — reads a newspaper advertisement put up by the state drinking water and sanitation department. But the department for one doesn’t seem to practise what it preaches. While Ranchi residents are being exhorted to renounce liquid colours this brief psychedelic season, leaking pipes and …
Ranchi, July 24: Jharkhand has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the worst performers in climate and environment protection, faring poorly in a survey carried out by the Planning Commission. The report card showing Jharkhand in 20th position on the Environment Performance Index (EPI) 2012 was sent by …
Acting on a Jharkhand High Court order, the government has decided to phase out 25,000 old and smoke-belching commercial vehicles from the first day of next month. The district transport department has already compiled a list of vehicles that will have to go off roads after the high court’s July …
After Nagri, it’s Dubalia, Rando, Patratu, Chutua and Sangrampur. A fresh controversy has broken out over acquisition of 256 acres in Kanke block, barely 15km from Ranchi, for constructing houses for the homeless poor. More than 300 villagers armed with traditional weapons laid siege to the Kanke block office on …
-Homemaker is RMC’s sole bidder to take charge of Zakir Hussain Park, Raj . Some people are born great, some acquire greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. Ranchi homemaker Manju Saxena, who successfully bid to run for a year the Zakir Hussain Park, named after India’s third President …
Ranchi, July 10: In a fillip to national highways in Jharkhand, the Union ministry of environment and forests today gave its final environmental clearance for widening an 80km stretch of NH-33 between Ranchi and Jamshedpur, delay over which has held up the Rs 1,500 crore-plus project since April 2011. A …
Ranchi, July 9: To make industries more accountable, cement and power plants of Jharkhand will henceforth have to be a part of a mandatory online ambient air quality monitoring system that will help bosses at pollution control offices in Delhi and Ranchi keep track of local ecological changes. A.K. Singh, …
Ranchi, July 9: A crucial meeting scheduled at the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF), New Delhi, tomorrow will decide the fate of the ambitious over Rs 1,500-crore NH-33 four-laning project between Ranchi and Jamshedpur, which is stuck in the absence of a green nod. National Highways Authority of …
The possession of 218 acres of agricultural land in Nagri, 15km from capital Ranchi for establishment of IIM, IIIT and NUSRL campuses by the district administration of Ranch has taken a violent turn on Wednesday when villagers armed with bamboo poles and iron rods clashed with the police that continued …
The land at the centre of the agitation that led to a lathicharge on Wednesday in Nagri, on the outskirts of Ranchi, has been the subject of dispute for 55 years. The only thing that has changed is what the government proposes to do with the 227 acres it claims …
Ranchi, July 4: People in five districts that are faced with arsenic and fluoride content will now be able to gulp down glasses of pure water for free, thanks to the first-ever mobile treatment plants set to be launched by the state government. As part of a project of the …
Over 45,000 kids have been identified as most malnourished in Jharkhand and a special drive is on to provide them proper nutrition, official sources said today. After getting a direction from CM Arjun Munda to step up 'Jeevan Asha' programme for under-nourished ch ildren, Principal Secretary (Social Welfare) Mridula Sinha …
Alstom T&D; India, an arm of French firm Alstom, has bagged two contracts worth . 225 crore from state-run PowerGrid Corp. “Alstom T&D; India has been awarded two contracts from PowerGrid Corp worth . 225 crore,” the company said. “The contract worth . 75 crore is for supply, testing, erection …
