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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Question mark on Tandwa power plant
Ranchi, April 14: All but ruling out the possibility of National Thermal Power Corporation
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CSR as tool to boost growth
Dhanbad, April 13: Companies should treat corporate social responsibility (CSR) as an opportunity rather than a burden, as it increases visibility and contributes to growth. The advice came from the director of Indian School of Mines, Tarkeshwar Kumar, today.
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Agri-help on Net for farmers
Jamshedpur, April 13: For the farmers of East Singhbhum, information on agricultural matters will soon be a click away. Set up by the Union government in 2005 as a single-window support system, Agricultural Technology Information Centres (ATIC) are all set to debut in the district. An ATIC links various units of a research institution with intermediary users and end-users (farmers) in a deci
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5-in-1 hope to treat bio-waste
Ranchi, April 13: Biomedical waste upping the hazard quotient in the capital and elsewhere will soon be a thing of the past, courtesy Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB), which has decided to set up not one, but five new incinerators for quick disposal. To be christened the Central Bio-waste Treatment Facility (CBWTF), the incinerator plants will come up in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanb
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Desiltation of lake on hold
Hazaribagh, April 10: The desiltation work at Hazaribagh lake has come to a halt with the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) officials asking the district officials to immediately clear the mud, which has accumulated as a result of digging a small portion of the water body. The NTPC had come forward to clean the lake after the Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) backed out. Local MP and
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Green drive in Saranda
Jamshedpur, April 10: Foresters in Saranda will soon launch an afforestation project that was sidelined for a year in view of threats from rebels and their sporadic clashes with security personnel. The project under the Compensatory Afforestation Management Plan Authority (Campa) of the Centre had been shelved, although it was supposed to start at the beginning of the last fiscal (2010-11).
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Snag-hit Tenughat forces JSEB to beg
Ranchi, April 7: The latest state-wide 72-hour blackout after the breakdown of Tenughat Vidyut Nigam Limited (TVNL) has led Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) today to ask Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for power from its upcoming Maithon Right Bank Thermal Power Project, commonly referred to as Maithon Power. In an SOS to DVC, JSEB requested that a power purchase agreement be inked be
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Nabard keen to fund village tourism plan
Jamshedpur, April 5: For the little-known tribal village of Janumdih, the status of an exotic weekend getaway is close at hand. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has shown interest in promoting rural tourism at Janumdih, with a two-member team recently visiting the village in Potka block. Nabard will collaborate with city-based NGO Kalamandir
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RMC does away with master plan
Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) today scrapped the master plan of 1983, on the basis of which the present anti-encroachment drive is being carried out in the capital, and sent the same for ratification by the urban development department, even as bulldozers remained silent through the day as protesters hit the streets in support of the displaced. The decision to nullify the master plan was t
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Dam snub to clean up Subernarekha
Jamshedpur, March 23: The Subernarekha is unlikely to be rid of water hyacinths anytime soon with the authorities at Chandil Dam turning down Tata Steel