Environment

UChicago, Tata Centre tie-up to rate India's most polluting industries

Besides the rating programme, the two have collaborated on real-time and in-situ river water quality monitoring through the water-to-cloud project

Publication Date: 
26/03/2019
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Industrial Pollution, Water Quality, River Pollution, Orissa (Odisha), Jharkhand, Environment
Solid Waste

QR-code based waste disposal system comes into force from April 1

Each and every health center, nursing home, hospital, pathological centers and any other medical facility generating biomedical waste in Jharkhand now has to comply with the disposal norms.

Publication Date: 
07/03/2019
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Jharkhand, Waste Disposal, Hospital Waste, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Solid Waste
Health

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding the issue of fixing compensation to victims of silicosis, 05/03/2019

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Peoples Rights and Social Research Centre (PRASAR) & Others  Vs Union of India Ministry of Labour and Employment Secretary & Others dated 05/03/2019 on the issue of fixing compensation to victims of silicosis which have occurred to the habitants where the industries are located.

Judgement Date: 
05/03/2019
Tags:
Silicosis, Health Effects, Jharkhand, Pondicherry, Madhya Pradesh, Compensation, Supreme Court, Human Rights
Mining

Centre to take final call on no-go zones for mining in Saranda

The government is set to take a final call on the Jharkhand government's request to reconsider the blanket ban on new iron ore mining in Saranda forests.

Publication Date: 
25/02/2019
Daily News Analysis (Delhi)
Tags:
Jharkhand, Mining, Iron, Forests, Illegal Trade
Solid Waste

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding EC for the Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Plant at Ranchi, Jharkhand, 19/02/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Anil Kumar Singh Vs State of Jharkhand & Others dated 19/02/2019 regarding Environment Clearance for the Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Plant at Ranchi. NGT says that the authorities have been delaying the process and that the matter has been pend

Judgement Date: 
19/02/2019
Tags:
Municipal Solid Waste, Waste Treatment, Ranchi (T), Jharkhand, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Environment Clearance (EC)
Health

Swine flu alert after death in Ranchi

Health department advisory for surgeons and district surveillance units, asking them to screen suspected cases
By Our Special Correspondent in Ranchi

Publication Date: 
12/02/2019
Telegraph (Ranchi)
Tags:
Jharkhand, Swine Flu, Ranchi (T), Infectious Diseases, Influenza, Health Effects, Health
Mining

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding encroachment of River Usri, Giridih in district Ramgarh, Jharkhand, 16/01/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Chandan Sinha Vs State of Jharkhand dated 16/01/2019 regarding encroachment of River Usri, Giridih in district Ramgarh, Jharkhand and also there is illegal sand mining. The bridge has given way.

Judgement Date: 
16/01/2019
Tags:
Rivers, Jharkhand, Ramgarh, Sand, Mining, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
Mining

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal sand mining on the banks of river Subarnarekha on borders of West Bengal and Odisha, 10/01/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sudarsan Das Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 10/01/2019 regarding illegal sand mining on the banks of river Subarnarekha on borders of West Bengal and Odisha.

Judgement Date: 
10/01/2019
Tags:
Subarnarekha, Sand, Mining, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa (Odisha), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Rivers
Mining

India records 377 mine deaths in three years

At a time when multiple agencies are involved in the rescue of 15 miners trapped in a rathole mine in Meghalaya, data tabled in the Lok Sabha earlier this week revealed that 377 workers involved in

Publication Date: 
03/01/2019
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mining, Mining Accident, Occupational Accidents, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Coal, Meghalaya
Agriculture

Farmers await compensation of crop loss by wildlife

Farmers are eagerly awaiting their crop compensation in villages falling in and around Palamu tiger reserve. Standing crop and harvested crop both are destroyed and damaged by herd of elephants.

Publication Date: 
27/12/2018
Pioneer (Ranchi)
Tags:
Jharkhand, Farmers, Agriculture, Wildlife, Palamu, Tiger, Compensation

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