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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Showers flood roads, rail lines
Children walk on tracks after rain disrupted rail traffic in Ranchi on Thursday. Picture by Prashant Mitra Ranchi, July 22: Heavy rain lashed the state capital today, inundating several areas and swamping railway tracks. Movement of several trains was affected, though the situation was not as alarming as it was in Jamshedpur when it experienced record rainfall in a day in June. The Ranchi-Lohardaga railway tracks at Ranchi Junction were waterlogged.
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Iron ore mining to take off
Ranchi, July 22: Iron ore mining is set to start at Ankua in West Singhbhum. Sajjan Jindal-owned JSW Steel Limited has employed the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Training (ICFRE) for an environmental impact assessment (EIA). Representatives of JSW Steel Limited and ICFRE today presented terms of reference for carrying out the assessment with the Union ministry of environment and forests appraisal committee in New Delhi.
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Food, PDS problems under scanner
-NGOs, activists point to government mismanagement SANTOSH KIRO An activist addresses NGO members at the symposium on Monday. Picture by Manik Bose Ranchi, July 21: Repeated reminders to the Jharkhand government to safeguard the common man's right to food have fallen on deaf ears in the state, some activists believe. Public problems and solutions were brought forth today in a symposium held by a group of activists, all working in the development field, especially for the right to food.
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Steps to tame TB spurt in state
Ranchi, July 21: The government today acknowledged that there has been a phenomenal rise in the number of tuberculosis cases in the city and its suburbs. "Reports filtering in from various government hospitals and healthcare centres indicate that, of late, there has been a rapid increase in the number of tuberculosis patients in Ranchi and in its adjoining rural areas,' Ranchi civil surgeon Geeta Kanth said.
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Power project pangs for JSEB
Ranchi, July 21: The progress in the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana in the state has been miserable and the implementing agencies
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Karnataka model for money-spinner tourism
-State government to promote forests to woo visitors with lodges & safaris in parks, tiger reserves ANEETA SHARMA A restaurant nestles on the banks of a placid lake in Hazaribagh national park. The government wants to develop such places with private participation Ranchi, July 21: The state forests would be used to promote tourism in a major way. The tourism department is trying to get into public-private partnerships with well-known names in the field of eco-tourism and develop a project according to the demands of tourists.
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Airport land for wider road
Ranchi : The Birsa Munda Airport (BMA) authorities would have to part with some land for a four-lane approach road to the terminal from Hinoo Chowk. Officials said they are planning to expand the approach road to 25m. The Rs 3-crore project is being planned in view of the National Games. According to the plan, the boundary wall of the airport from Hinoo Chowk to where the state government's hangar begins would be demolished to make way for the road.
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Power board trips on DVC dues for years
AMIT GUPTA Ranchi, July 20: Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) owes Rs 800 crore to Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) and is the only defaulter for the past couple of years. Top government sources said the matter was strongly raised during the July 18 review meeting of DVC by a consultative committee for ministry of power chaired by Union power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.
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Power plant sets 2011 deadline
Ranchi, Sept. 8: Chief executive officer (CEO) of Abhijeet Group Arun Gupta today assured Governor K. Sankaranarayanan that the power plant being set up by the company in Latehar would begin production by 2011.
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Rural cry over phone towers
Radiation magnet? Hazaribagh, Nov. 3: Residents of Kolghati and Ramnagar localities in Hazaribagh town have raised a voice against the mushrooming mobile phone towers fearing