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 Swine flu is stalking Jharkhand with at least eight
Telegraph (Ranchi)
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Saving water’s a pipe dream - Capital’s guardians insist on dry Holi, but leaks drain 40000 litres a day
Play a dry Holi, save water — reads a newspaper advertisement put up by the state drinking water and sanitation department. But the department for one doesn’t seem to practise what it preaches. While Ranchi
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Unicef jolt for state
A report on the condition of children in Jharkhand presented in Ranchi on Monday by Unicef has revealed alarming facts, particularly in urban areas, which if not addressed immediately threatens to overshadow
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Green authority in pipeline
Jharkhand has finally woken up to the need of a State-Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), six years after the Union government issued an order, asking all states to form the organisation
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HC asks Tata to come clean
Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday directed Tata Steel to prepare an action plan to remove slag from Kharkai and Subernarekha, the rap coming three days before the founder’s day celebrations and after almost
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Forest act to empower Ranchi villages
Ranchi, Feb. 28: Eighteen villages of Ranchi district will be the first to receive community rights over local natural resources under the forest act in Jharkhand by next month. Nine of these 18 lucky
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Steel unit faces river slag rap
A slag-choked Subernarekha may hope to breathe easy sometime soon. The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) — possibly chastised by a CAG report on Jharkhand’s poor conservation of rivers —
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GIS lens on mining after CM nudge
It has taken Arjun Munda over four and a half months to persuade the mines and geology department to check illegal mining, albeit in a half-hearted manner. The geology wing of the department today claimed
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District formula for waste disposal
The East Singhbhum district administration has stepped in to resolve the stand-off over disposal of biomedical waste by nursing homes and private hospitals after a city-based human rights outfit took up
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Twin road projects launched in Bokaro
Bokaro, Feb. 22: Sudesh Mahto today laid the foundation stones for two road projects and promised Rs 50 crore for renovating a decades-old barrage in Chandankyari, claiming that Ajsu had done more for
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Vigil saves rare birds
Bhagalpur, Feb. 19: The administration has stepped up vigil against poachers to save migratory birds at the eco-friendly Gangetic diara in the district. The diara (sandbar) is considered a green belt