Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
Jharkhand, where most rural and semi-urban pockets and even some urban neighbourhoods are plagued by arsenic and fluoride contamination, received its first state-of-the-art water-testing laboratory on Thursday. Drinking water and sanitation minister Jai Prakash Bhai Patel threw open the hi-tech facility at PHED Colony in Hinoo in the heart of …
Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company’s joint venture with Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), Maithon Power Limited endeavours to improve the quality of life of communities living around its area of operations. In line with this commitment, the company on Monday announced the successful installation of special solar powered street …
The district traffic police on Thursday carried out a massive pollution checking drive against erring auto-rickshaws plying in the city. Concerned over rising pollution level in the city, the drive was conducted simultaneously at Sakchi, Bistupur, Jugsalai and Golmuri for over three hours. The cops checked whether the driver concerned …
A Baradwari locality is set to be the first milestone in Jamshedpur’s journey towards becoming a slum-free city. Nearly 40,000 urban poor residing in Navjeevan Ashram in Devnagar will benefit of Centre’s flagship scheme Rajiv Awas Yojana by the end of this year. Based on a detailed project report submitted …
RANCHI: The drinking water and sanitation department is planning m-governance for better implementation of projects in urban and rural areas. The mobile-governance, which is likely to be launched on June 5 on the occasion of World Environment Day, is aimed at timely "implementation of projects". Ashish Kumar Saurabh, assistant state …
JUSCO, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Tata Steel as part of its CSR activities extended water tanker services to areas where there is acute water crisis and no provision of tap water. As a responsible corporate, JUSCO has provided two mini trucks mounted with water tanker of 4000 liter …
One of the major water bodies in Ranchi —Kanke Dam — that hitherto supplied water to thousands of houses settled around its periphery has been obliged with waste emanating from human activities concentrated around it and has put the reservoir under serious threat of extinction in the days to come. …
A four-member team from environment NGO Yugantar Bharti laboratory (accredited to Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board) at Sidroul in Ranchi on Thursday collected water samples from Jubilee Lake under the supervision of NGO member KK Sharma. The team comprising Pawan Kumar, Sanjiv Kumar Singh, Dipankar Karmakar and Uday Mondal collected …
Reaffirming its commitment for environment conservation, Tata Steel dedicated the first fixed Bio-Toilet Unit at Auction Yard Gate at its Jamshedpur plant. Suresh Dutt Tripathi, vice president, HRM, Tata Steel, inaugurated the new facility. The construction of a conventional toilet and connecting it to the main sewer line was a …
RANCHI: Taking a cue from Pune Municipal Corporation, deputy mayor of Ranchi Municipal Corporation, Sanjiv Vijayvargiya has come up with a new plan to deal with the longstanding issue of garbage disposal in the city. If the idea gets implemented a common mini-garbage disposal plant will be set up in …
Dead fish floating on the Ranchi Lake, commonly known as Bada Talab, are a common sight which has raised environmental concerns. Locals say the fish are dying because of depleting water levels, while others believe that rising pollution levels is the reason. The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) admits …
One man’s celebration is another man’s poison in revelling Ranchi. The level of pollution in water bodies across the capital has shot up dangerously following immersion of idols — many of them made of toxic paints and fabric — on Dashami and the day after. And, the peril is only …
Batty as it may sound, it takes around 50 carcasses to prove that a protected species exists, if one is to go by the logic of forest department officials. Officials of Ranchi wildlife division (east) on Sunday said about 50 bats had died probably due to extreme heat. The department …
A kilometre-long arterial link between the National Games Village and NH-33, built at a cost of Rs 2.17 crore in 2008-09, will now require more than double the amount for reconstruction, thanks to substandard quality of building material and administrative apathy. Just a subdued spell of monsoon has already rendered …
Ranchi, July 12: Irregular supply of foodgrain is costing the Centre-sponsored midday meal programme dear. Complaints have poured in from a few state-run schools that in the absence of foodgrain, the mata samitis or mother committees are unable to cook meals with the result students are going back home hungry.
ARTI SAHULIYAR Ranchi, June 9: If a city-based NGO has its way, the capital will soon get a rain centre to act as an information hub on water conservation and its benefits. Rohini Science Club is planning to set up the centre in association with the Centre for Environment and …
Ranchi, Aug. 13: The National Bank for Rural and Agriculture Development (Nabard) has decided to introduce and promote cultivation of noni (morinda citrifolia)
