Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of News item titled: 5 Jharkhand forest officers attacked by Stone mafia, appearing in The Times of India dated 24.03.2025. The application was taken up on the basis of a news item published in the Times of …
India will soon revise its malaria mortality figures, with the new estimates expected to be at least 20 times more than what the health ministry portrays at present. A 16-member committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research, headed by its former director general Dr Padam Singh Pradhan, has found …
The power situation in shortage-stricken Bihar could improve after its first private thermal plant goes on stream in 2014. Can you beat this? Bihar's power generation utilities have been shut down since March! After Jharkhand was carved out of the state in 2000, Bihar was left with just three plants …
PMO snubs former coal secretary for his bid to ensure transparency in allocation of coal blocks. Former coal secretary P.C. Parakh, who proposed auction of coal blocks to bring in transparency, took the auctions file to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in July, 2004, after being rebuffed by minister of …
Garhwa on Thursday recorded minimum 4 degree Celsius, the season's lowest minimum at night. It also experienced early morning fog on Friday. While cold winds from northern parts of the country are making Garhwa shiver, a woman Panpati Devi (55), wife of Chalitter Rajwar, died of cold wave in Gangtiria …
Life in the district has been paralyzed on Tuesday as temperature touches 2 degrees Celsius. People preferred to remain indoors because of dense fog and strong wind. Prevailing cold wave even affected Christmas celebrations and market activities. Most people avoided venturing out after sunset. "Customers preferred to finish their last …
As Gujarat readies itself to hold an event to showcase its business-friendly environment, there is some good news for the state. A report released today shows it replaced Tamil Nadu in terms of freest state in 2011. The report, co-published by the Cato Institute, Academic Foundation, Indicus Analytics and the …
Top planners of the country have asserted that pricing and rationing are the most important tools to make optimal use of the most precious natural resource - water - and achieve sustainable development even though states, bound by political compulsions and fiercely protective of control over water management, may never …
“Where there is a will, there is a way”, goes the adage. It has come true in case of farmers of Krishna belt in Bagalkot district. The farmers in Jamkhandi taluk, suffering huge losses due to the shortage of water to the sugarcane crop, have come together and completed within …
Deadline for accepting the package extended by three months At least six states have agreed to subscribe to the Centre’s debt restructuring plan for power distribution companies. The deadline for states to opt for the package has been extended by three months and would now end on March 31. The …
Department of Public Enterprise has opposed a coal ministry proposal to provide performance related pay (PRP) from consolidated funds to executives of CIL arms that made losses in the relevant period. It has said this is not in conformity with norms and would soon send a note to Cabinet in …
Ranchi, Dec. 28: Chief minister Arjun Munda today opposed the draft National Water Policy 2012, arguing that water was a state-specific resource that could not be controlled by means of a uniform law. Addressing the National Water Resources Council meeting in Delhi, Munda said that if the Centre enacted a …
Even as many states, including Punjab, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, rejected a key provision, an over-arching framework on water laws, in the draft National Water Policy, 2012, the Centre today adopted the document with an assurance to uphold the states’ Constitutional rights over water management and a promise …
Four persons died due to extreme cold in North India where temperatures plummeted and fog disrupted normal life. In Delhi, the maximum temperature was recorded at 18.3°C, two less than normal and the minimum temperature was 7.8°C. One person succumbed to severe cold wave conditions in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. …
Timely and reliable payment of wages under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is meant to be one of the initial applications of Aadhaar - the unique identity number that is supposed to be given to every resident of India. Pilot experiments with Aadhaarenabled payment systems were initiated in Jharkhand …
A central plan for piped water supply through dual solar powered pumps will cover six panchayats in Saranda, with Union minister Jairam Ramesh closely monitoring progress to effect a promised turnaround at villages in the former rebel hub in West Singhbhum. According to a report prepared by the Union drinking …
During the year, govt also contemplated to open up sector for commercial mining Coal fired a minefield of controversies in 2012, fuelled by CAG estimates of a huge Rs 1.86 lakh crore loss for allocation of coal blocks to business houses without auction which served as fodder to the Opposition …
Chief minister Arjun Munda today granted administrative sanctions for the construction of various bridges, roads and culverts across the state and also gave his nod for commencing actions against certain government officials for their acts of omission and commission. Officials said the Tisri-Thanasinghtoli-Kowakol Road in Giridih and the Singhpokharia-Jaitgarh Road …
Public sector enterprise escapes public glare in coal scandal ---------- On May 23, 10 CBI teams swooped on offices and homes of seven senior officials of the Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), one of the eight coal-producing subsidiaries of Coal India Limited (CIL), at different places in Ramgarh and Dhanbad districts …
This paper is an encrypt of the intervention made under 'biodiversity conservation through community based natural resource management in Bokaro river basin' in Jharkhand state.
Chief minister Arjun Munda today chaired a meeting of State Wildlife Board and directed officials to conduct environment impact assessment study for nearly 13 mining projects so that a final call on their forest clearances could be taken. Munda also asked them to prepare a plan for conservation of wildlife …
