Coal tourism likely at mining spots
RANCHI: The iron ore mines of Kiriburu and Meghatuburu in East Singhbhum district are likely to be thrown open to tourists for the first time in early 2017. The directorate of state tourism department
Purba Singhbhum
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Push for strict emission norms
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
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Uranium spill
a tailing pipe carrying uranium waste from the Uranium Corporation of India Limited
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Sowing SEEDS of a better tomorrow - NGO offers farming tips, technical aid to Sabars & Birhors
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.
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Changing gears
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,
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Plantation to check pollution - School welcomes chief guest with song, dance
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.
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Plantation to check pollution - School welcomes chief guest with song, dance
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.
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Two Tata Motors officials arrested in chlorine gas leak case
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.
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Nuclear power is a must
India is expanding uranium mining, a hazardous activity. Anil Kakodkar, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, recently inaugurated a uranium mine at Bagjata in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. Kakodkar, who is also secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy, spoke to ALOK GUPTA about safety concerns and the country
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Nuclear arms race will trigger nuclear terrorism
An interview with Tilman A Ruff, Australian head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). At Jadugoda in East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, he observed a human settlement perilously close to the mines of Uranium Corporation of India.
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Pollution axe on stone crushers
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.