Jharkhand High Court on Monday directed the School Bus Owners Association in the capital to inform about the number of buses ferrying students, providing details of buses owned by respective school

The state government today knocked on the doors of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal with the request that coal blocks allotted to Jharkhand State Mineral Dev

The land of four villages — Hesatu, Silhiri, Khatanga and Gagari — is no different from other fallow agricultural fields of Jharkhand and neither is the fate of the villagers.

Development comes on heels of Power Ministry asking Coal Ministry to relook decision on deallocation of four coal blocks

The Coal Ministry will take a call on giving back the de-allocated coal blocks of NTPC after consultations with the Law Ministry. The development comes close on the heels of Power Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia asking Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal to reconsider the decision on deallocation of four coal blocks, including three alloted to NTPC.

New Delhi The inter-ministerial group (IMG) has recommended deallocation of three coal mines, and deduction and imposition of bank guarantee (BG) of PSU firms, including MMTC and Nalco.

CESC Limited will take over power supply services from the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) by early next year. JSEB consumers feel this new arrangement will remove their long-standing grievances and discontents against the state’s power board.

The Member (Distribution), JSEB, CD Kumar told Business Standard on Thursday that in the process of biddings, CESC had acquired the bid and a letter of intent was issued to the company in October this year.

The ministries of coal, mines and rural development have opposed setting up of Ultra Mega Steel Plants (UMSPs) in the country, saying that land and raw materials were scarce resources and cannot be

In the wake of allegations of transport of illegally mined ore, the mines departments of Odisha and Jharkhand have decided to restrict inter-state transportation of minerals by road.

“All cases of inter-state transportation of minerals by road from different mines to the plant sites on either side of the Odisha-Jharkhand border will be reviewed by the respective director of mines. The concerned lessees will be impressed upon to transport the minerals across the borders only through Railways. We are encouraging rail movement across the borders as a precautionary measure to avert illegal ore transport,” said a senior official of steel & mines department.

Armed villagers prevented government officials from entering the site of a proposed solid waste treatment plant in Khairbani on the outskirts of Jamshedpur on Friday, their resistance inspired by f

The state government has decided to tighten the noose around companies that extract ore in excess of what has been specified in their leases in violation of Indian Bureau of Mines and environmental