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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Tatanagar says no to plastic - First Chakradharpur station to go eco-friendly
Jamshedpur, May 20: Plastic just got marching orders from Tatanagar station. Polythene bags and plastic cups littered in and around railway tracks and on the platform and station premises would soon be a thing of the past, declared authorities of Chakradharpur railway division of South Eastern Railway (SER).
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Wasteland into mango basket
Ranchi, May 16: The king of fruits has finally conquered Lohardaga, Latehar, Gumla and West Singhbhum. For the first time this year, mango trees planted by the state government under National Horticulture Mission (NHM) have borne a large number of fruits, promising a bumper crop.
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Industrial units brand JSEB inept
Ranchi, May 15: Representatives of trade and industry today voiced strong opposition to a proposal filed by the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) to hike its tariff, terming the state utility as one of the most inefficient bodies, at a public hearing conducted by the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (JSERC). The commission had organised the hearing to seek public opinion
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Orchid route to woo global floriculture mart
- State horticulture mission invites private players to set up hybrid farm in Namkum Stunning orchids will pave the floral way to lucrative livelihoods in Jharkhand if plans mooted by Jharkhand State Horticulture Mission (JSHM) succeed in the near future. The JSHM, set up under the mandate of National Horticulture Mission (NHM), is in the process of setting up a model hi-tech dendrobium hybrid
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States to team up for dam:HC
Ranchi, May 6: Jharkhand High Court today directed the water resource department secretaries of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to hold a meeting on Kanhar dam project in Garhwa, a project that has been hanging in balance since almost 40 years. The division bench of Justices Prakash Tatia and Ramesh Kumar Merathia was hearing a PIL filed by former minister Hemendra Pratap Dehati who said that constr
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Mecon passes NOx monitoring test
- Plans to build a single system to check multi-gas harmful emissions Ranchi, May 6: Mecon has developed a system that monitors noxious nitrogen oxides in air, a breakthrough it achieved after two years of painstaking research. In the presence of senior company officials, including CMD A.K.
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Pleas to dispose of bio-waste pile up
Ranchi, May 4: For all its efforts to gift five new incinerators to the state, the pollution control board is undoing the good work by sitting on hundreds of applications from hospitals and nursing homes, seeking permission to handle and dispose of medical waste on their own. According to the Biomedical Waste Management Act 1998, every hospital, nursing home or any other medical entity has to o
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State bamboozles farmers on central scheme
- National Bamboo Mission takes a back seat, thanks to transit permit on harvest Ranchi, May 3: Teeming bamboo groves could well swing towards state farmers, but it is the forest department that holds sway over the cash crop. Since the launch of the National Bamboo Mission in Jharkhand in 2007, the department has managed to cover only 12 hectares outside forest area under bamboo cultivation
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Delhi firm to build bio-waste plants
The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has selected a Delhi-based agency to set up five new incinerators for quick disposal of biomedical wastes although another firm had quoted the lowest price. The former chairman of JSPCB, C.R.