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 …
The long-awaited panchayati raj institutions are in place for nearly two years in Jharkhand, but the prerequisite for extending forest rights titles has made little difference in the tribal state. Sample this: out of 42,000 claims, only 15,296 titles have been distributed until October to forest dwellers under the Forest …
Minister for Forest and Environment Bijayshree Routray on Tuesday said in the Assembly that Rs 62.1 lakh has been spent on development of 14 elephant corridors during between 2009-10 and 2010-11 from the elephant management plan. In a written reply to a question from Amar Prasad Satpathy (BJD), the Minister …
Around 200 high-sensitive cameras will join the search for the hitherto “missing” big cats at the 1,129.93sqkm Palamau Tiger Reserve. The recent discovery of pug mark, hair strands and a prey in Mahuadanr region of the reserve — one of the oldest and arguably the most neglected — has prompted …
The Odisha government is yet to submit the action taken report in respect of illegal coal mining activities in the state despite repeated reminders from the Centre. In the light of observations made by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on coal & steel, Coal secretary S K Srivastava has again asked …
The government on Monday said states have detected a total of 25,519 illegal mining cases with fines worth Rs 622 crore realised, till June of the current fiscal. Both the maximum number of illegal mining cases detected and fines recovered are from Maharashtra at 7,721 and Rs 131.43 crore respectively, …
The maximum number of illegal mining cases detected and fines recovered are from Maharashtra at 7,721 and Rs 131 cr respectively The government today said states have detected a total of 25,519 illegal mining cases with fines worth Rs 622 crore realised, till June of the current fiscal. Both the …
Hill States Have Highest Rates Of Diabetes, Hypertension New Delhi: Surprising trends have emerged from the health ministry’s first-ever large-scale study to check for diabetes and hypertension (high blood pressure) by actually testing blood samples from the country’s general population. In the first phase of the study that checked 1.06 …
New Delhi: Seeks halting of work on 1,980-MW plant in coal-bearing area of Jharkhand The coal ministry has contested the suggestion made by a group of ministers (GoM) to allow NTPC to set up a 1,980-MW power plant in the coal-bearing area of North Karanpura in Jharkhand. Moving a Cabinet …
Jharkhand today sought assistance from a visiting team of World Bank and central officials for a pending sewerage and drainage project in Ranchi and unbundling of the state power utility. The plan to install a centralised sewerage and drainage system in Ranchi has been pending for years due to several …
The Supreme Court has refused to grant a stay on a Calcutta High Court order that bars the electricity regulator from fixing provisional tariffs for new power units. A senior official of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) said the Supreme Court on Friday refused a stay on the high …
Villagers whose land agitation had forced Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) to scrap a mining project near Asansol apologised to company officials last evening with folded hands and requested them to reconsider the decision. This is the first time in recent memory that land protesters in Bengal have apologised for …
The 75-crore solid waste management plant coming up at Jhiri, near Ratu, under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) is expected to become operational by March-end. Officials of A2Z Waste Management Private Limited — the partner agency of Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) that is constructing the plant — said …
Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) heaved a sigh of relief with the recent movement of coal from the mines of the Panem Coal Mines Limited in Pakur district of Jharkhand. The 22-day-long agitation in one of Jharkhand’s largest mines run by Panem Coal Mines Ltd was called off on December …
A land agitation has forced Bharat Coking Coal Ltd to scrap a mining project near Asansol and explore options in neighbouring Jharkhand. “We had no option but to cancel the project following protests from the villagers. They want jobs in BCCL immediately. We told them that getting documents verified and …
Minister for Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan has rejected the steel ministry's charge that her department was delaying mining clearances that could potentially lead to law and order issues in forested tribal areas. "It is somewhat unusual and new, the argument that complying with environmental and forest regulations leads to …
Steel minister Beni Prasad Verma has cautioned environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan against delaying green clearances for SAIL’s iron ore mines in Orissa and Jharkhand. Delays have led to the discontinuation of mining in the predominantly tribal areas, said Verma, cautioning this could trigger law and order problems and stoke naxal …
Steel minister Beni Prasad Verma has cautioned environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan against holding up clearances for SAIL’s iron ore mines in Orissa and Jharkhand, saying this would force the state-owned steel giant to scale down operations and could stoke Naxal activity in the tribal region. Verma’s November 30 missive to …
Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today suggested states to replicate Jharkhand's performance in MNREGA under which it has constructed 78,000 wells in the last two years. "(As many as) 78,000 wells have been dug in the last two years, which is a record. I have suggested (the state) to put the …
The movement of Asiatic elephants to the famous Deepor Beel Bird Sanctuary has declined as the traditional corridors used by them while coming down from the Rani and Garbhanga Reserve Forests (RFs) to the Deepor Beel have been blocked due to setting up of railway tracks and also construction of …
The Union cabinet is likely to allow work on the 1,980MW NTPC power plant at North Karanpura to proceed after years of uncertainty over its fate. Work on the project in Hazaribagh district, first envisaged in 1998, began in 2003 but stalled in mid-2009 as the 1,500 acres it was …
