‘Monster profits’ for energy giants reveal a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence
While 2022 inflicted hardship upon many people around the world due to soaring inflation, climate-driven disasters and war, the year was lucrative on an unprecedented scale for the fossil fuel industry, with the five largest western oil and gas companies alone making...
Varied Measures to Ensure Sustainable Coal Mining
The best practices adopted by Coal PSUs for sustainable coal mining are as below: Bio-reclamation / Plantation: Coal PSUs have been making constant and sincere efforts to minimize the footprints of coal mining through sustained reclamation and afforestation of areas...
Air Quality Analysis – January 2023
Below is a brief representation of data captured by portable devices installed in multiple locations in Korba, Delhi and Ranchi. The analysis has been done for two reporting periods – 1 January to 31 January 2023 and Jan 2022 to January 2023 Section 1 – Data Analysis...
Riverbed Mining 2022: Judiciary tries but fails to bring effective change
Judiciary has been striving to remedy the lawless situation currently dominating riverbed mining in India. The year 2022 has been full of court cases and orders dealing with unsustainable and illegal riverbed mining operations. In this yearend overview, we have...
NHRC seeks report from Odisha govt on poor villagers living ..
BHUBANESWAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an action taken report from Keonjhar district collector on the deprivation of houses and other benefits of welfare schemes meant for the poor villagers of Mangarajpur under Sadang Panchayat in the...
How Blackrock Investment Fund Triggered the Global Energy Crisis
Most people are bewildered by what is a global energy crisis, with prices for oil, gas and coal simultaneously soaring and even forcing closure of major industrial plants such as chemicals or aluminum or steel. The Biden Administration and EU have insisted that all is...
Supreme Court orders Rs 650 crore payment to tea garden workers in Assam
Guwahati: The Supreme Court of India has ordered the payment of approximately Rs 650 crores to 28,556 workers of 25 tea gardens in the state of Assam, including those owned by the state-run Assam Tea Company Limited (ATCL). A bench of justices MR Shah and CT Ravi...
Dust particles in Jamshedpur have high concentration of toxic metals: experts
Dust particles in Jamshedpur in Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district and adjoining areas have a “heavy concentration of toxic metals” that, though not carcinogenic, pose a “high health risk”, especially for children. This came to light on Wednesday at a conference held...
Birmitrapur legislator seeks CAG audit into DMF expenditure in Sundargarh
ROURKELA: Birmitrapur MLA Shankar Oram has urged Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Girish Chandra Murmu to conduct an audit of District Mineral Foundation (DMF) expenditure in Sundargarh district. Shankar had written a letter to Murmu in this regard on November 12...
Training for unemployed women in Panna
बे रोजगारी की मार से जूझते परिवार, जो स्थानीय रोजगार न होने की वजह से अपने घर गांव से दूर पलायन पर जाने को मजबूर कई मजदूर, जिनके पास आजीविका के विकल्प नहीं, ऐसी अलग अलग गाँव से आई महिलाओं के साथ एक दिवसीय कार्य शाला का आयोजन किया गया, और 50 महिलाओं को मुर्गी पालन और...
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