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)
-
No ostrich breeding at Tata zoo this year - Incubation attempt fails, all five eggs remain unfertilised
Jamshedpur, May 31: The Tata Steel Zoological Park will now have to wait for another year to breeding ostriches as the first attempt of the zoo authorities failed this year.
-
State lags behind in forest act scorecard
Ranchi, May 30: Jharkhand is moving at a snail
-
Ganga drive stuck in political quagmire
Sahebganj, May 30: A Rs 800-crore master project to de-pollute the holy Ganga here is hanging in the balance, courtesy the political instability in the state. Under the project, the Sahebganj district administration had earlier proposed a sewerage system, underground huge drains and electric crematoriums both at Sahebganj and Rajmahal townships located on the banks of Ganga.
-
Big money for green hills
- Centre gives Rs 95cr for afforestation of 20000 hectares SANTOSH K. KIRO Keeping the woods lovely, dark and deep Ranchi, May 24: The hills of Jharkhand will soon be green again. Come monsoon, the forest department will embark upon the mammoth task of greening the hills of the state and also forests where the tree cover is thin.
-
Bandh on June 18 for tribal rights
Jamshedpur, May 23: Jharkhand Disom Party (JDP) has called a bandh in Jharkhand and tribal-dominated areas of Orissa and Bengal on June 18 to exert pressure on the Centre for implementation of constitutional provisions protecting tribal rights. JDP national president Salkhan Murmu clarified that essential services would be kept outside the purview of the bandh.
-
Water helpline registers success
Ranchi, May 20: For a change, toll-free complaint numbers floated by government departments are not just functioning, but also delivering. The drinking water and sanitation department, which started a 18003456502 helpline, claims to have received 856 calls from across Jharkhand. Similarly, the social welfare department (18003456526) has received 263.
-
Fair price for forest yield - Tribals get marketing aid
Ranchi, May 19: Tribal villagers who make a living out of forest produce will no longer be at the mercy of middlemen. The government has moved to ensure a fair price for minor forest products such as tamarind, mango pulp, mahua and chiraunji this summer.
-
Lizard in school meal again, 276 fall ill
Hazaribagh, May 19: As many as 276 students of a government school fell sick today after eating a midday meal of khichdi in which a lizard was found, a week after an identical episode in Deoghar where 19 children fell sick after a midday meal.
-
Bhushan Steel offers villagers price sop for 300 acres
Jamshedpur, May 18: The foundation stone of its 3MTPA steel plant and 900MW capacity power plant in Potka now in place, Bhushan Power and Steel Limited (BPSL) has started the process of acquiring 300 acres of land directly from villagers living around the proposed site.
-
Tenughat set to get a facelift - Rs 1.42 crore tourism proposal sent to Centre
Bokaro, May 17: Visitors to Bokaro will now have a new destination to look forward to. Taking quick action on the Union tourism ministry