Jamshedpur, Oct. 12: People of East Singhbhum district are a proud lot.

For the second consecutive year the district has bagged the Nirmal Gram Award for successful implementation of Total Sanitation Campaign.

Successfully adhering to basic sanitation and cleanliness guidelines of the government, 13 panchayats of East Singhbhum district have received this award.

Jamshedpur, Sept. 15: The East Singhbhum administration has sent a proposal to the government requesting for the gradual introduction of emission norms for passenger vehicles in the steel city.

The district transport department (DTD), after receiving a request from the district environment committee, recommended the implementation of Euro-III, followed in 11 cities in the country

a tailing pipe carrying uranium waste from the Uranium Corporation of India Limited

The forestland in Joblakocha that was cleared for cultivation. Telegraph picture

Jamshedpur, Sept. 4: Sabars and Birhors, who would hunt and make ropes for a living, have now taken to agriculture.

With the help of an NGO, Socio Economic and Education Development Society (SEEDS), Sabar and Birhor tribes in Joblakocha and Tumangkocha villages at Mosabani in East Singhbhum district have started growing plants within an area of 7 hectares.

Food gatherer and rope maker tribals in Jharkhand become cultivators Members of two primitive tribes in East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, are trying to retain their forestland in a unique manner. The sabars and birhors, food gatherers and rope makers, have taken to cultivation. They have cleared tracts of forestland on which they have lived for generations, to grow mango, guava,

East Singhbhum superintendent of police Naveen Kumar Singh waters a plant on the school premises. Telegraph picture
Jamshedpur, Aug. 3: Birhors, Sabars, Paharias, Santhalis and Mundaris today matched their steps at a tree plantation programme organised at Bharat Sevashram Sangh run Swami Parnavanand Centenary Girls' Residential School.

With pollution level rising in the state and in the country, the school thought of organising such a programme and invited East Singhbhum superintendent of police Naveen Kumar Singh to be the chief guest on the occasion.

East Singhbhum superintendent of police Naveen Kumar Singh waters a plant on the school premises. Telegraph picture
Jamshedpur, Aug. 3: Birhors, Sabars, Paharias, Santhalis and Mundaris today matched their steps at a tree plantation programme organised at Bharat Sevashram Sangh run Swami Parnavanand Centenary Girls' Residential School.

With pollution level rising in the state and in the country, the school thought of organising such a programme and invited East Singhbhum superintendent of police Naveen Kumar Singh to be the chief guest on the occasion.

Two Tata Motors officials, water treatment plant in-charge BK Sarkar and DGM (safety) Samir K Ghatak, were arrested on Wednesday night from their residences. They were arrested on the charges of negligence in the chlorine gas leakage case at the company's water treatment plant earlier this week.

Ranchi, July 28: At least 89 iron ore crushing units, located in mineral rich West Singhbhum, East Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan districts, will have to shut down as the state environment and forest department has decided not to renew their existing licences.

Renowned nuclear scientist Bikash Sinha has a solution for the power crisis plaguing the state