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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Red zone villagers avail of aid
Bokaro, March 14: Buoyed by the overwhelming response to contact programmes and health camps organised for the villagers of Jhumra hills, the CRPF and district administration yesterday convened a medical camp and janta durbar at Rehawan, about 135 kilometres from Bokaro steel city.
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Pledge to save tribal land
Ranchi, March 14: A dozen of organisations protesting against land grab in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa today decided to launch a war against companies trying to establish industrial units on plots belonging to tribals.
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Questions over teens death in BCCL mine pit
Dhanbad, March 14: Days after 17-year-old Pankaj Goswami fell into a closed pit of BCCL
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Residents team up to save rivulet
Ranchi: Over 350 men and women under the aegis of Pani Panchayat today joined hands to give a fresh lease of life to a rivulet near Kutchery Chowk, about 60km from the state capital under Sadar police station area of Lohardaga district.
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Intervention fights infant mortality
Ranchi, March 10: In a model that can well be replicated by other states in future, intervention of women groups in two districts of Jharkhand
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Kala-azar stalks Godda
A spurt in the number of kala-azar cases in tribal-dominated Boyarizore and Sundar Paharia blocks in the district has prompted the Godda health department to push the panic button.
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Singapore model for jungle safari
- Forest department mulls 41-hectare wildlife getaway at Berwey, butterfly park at Chakla on anvil Ranchi, March 10: Berwey, about 2km from Birsa Munda Zoological Park in Chakla, fits the bill for night safari, says expert Bernard Harrison.
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Govt refuses to accept famine theory
The Shibu Soren government today admitted that the drought scenario was critical, but refused to declare the state famine-hit. It, however, agreed to make efforts to improve irrigation facilities and provide foodgrain to the poor to prevent starvation deaths. The Opposition consequently staged a walkout.
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State may fail to fulfil UN goals
Ranchi, March 9: United Nations
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Spreading the word to save girl child
On the eve of International Women