Jamshedpur, April 10: Foresters in Saranda will soon launch an afforestation project that was sidelined for a year in view of threats from rebels and their sporadic clashes with security personnel.
The project under the Compensatory Afforestation Management Plan Authority (Campa) of the Centre had been shelved, although it was supposed to start at the beginning of the last fiscal (2010-11).
Jamshedpur, March 23: The Subernarekha is unlikely to be rid of water hyacinths anytime soon with the authorities at Chandil Dam turning down Tata Steel
Jamshedpur, March 22: The steel city with the paradox of plenty and parched celebrated World Water Day today.
Statistics reveal that compared to the ideal water consumption of 50-160 litres per person per day, an average steel city resident consumes 220 litres.
At the same time, major rivers and reservoirs in and around the city are drying up, with residents in peripheral areas reeling under
Polluting eyesore today, pristine eye-catcher tomorrow.
Slag hills keeping malevolent vigil on posh Bistupur were always a part of the landscape if one came from Tatanagar via Jugsalai.
Jamshedpur, March 8: Grappling with an acute land crunch, the Adityapur Industrial Area Development Authority (Aiada), which is keen to expand base, has identified about 400 acres of government land in Baharagora and Seraikela in East Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan districts, respectively.
The industrial authority turned its attention on government land after three-year-long attempt to acqui
During debates on the merits of bringing in private water experts to distribute drinking water to homes in urban India 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, one story is often repeated.
It is the story of a woman, a daily wage earner from Hubli-Dharwad, tier-II twin towns in north Karnataka that received two hours of water supply every 15 days in the summer of 2002.
Officials of Tata Steel Zoological Park and Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park, Ranchi, are keeping their fingers crossed for a green signal to a proposed collaboration that aims to boost breeding and conservation of animals at the two parks.
The two zoological parks, which have shown keen interest in signing an MoU in this regard, have sent a proposal to the Jharkhand Zoo Authority (JZA)
