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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JSPCB sets online stack monitoring deadline
Poison air Jamshedpur, March 24: The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has set a three-month deadline for sponge iron units and power companies to install online stack monitoring systems to control air pollution. The JSPCB today issued the directive to managements of sponge iron units and power companies operating in Jamshedpur, Ramgarh, Dhanbad and Hazaribagh.
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Ranchi flunks amenities test
Ranchi, March 24: The state capital is not only a dirty place to live in, it also lacks proper basic amenities. This has been revealed by a study conducted by a New Delhi-based NGO.
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Clean canal order
Orissa High Court Cuttack, March 22: When Supreme Court lawyer and environment activist M.C. Mehta raised the pollution issue in context of the Taladanda canal in April 1992, Orissa High Court had reprimanded authorities, stating a possibility of an
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Isro chief, HEC to talk space
On Isro radar Ranchi, March 22: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman G. Madhavan Nair is scheduled to visit Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) Limited, Ranchi, on March 30 to discuss areas of increased co-operation with the firm for the country
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Rotary pledge to save water
Jamshedpur, March 22: Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink... Before these words (from S.T. Coleridge
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Tamed tusker to train Dalma wild
Jamshedpur, March 20: The tuskers in Dalma need some training for sure and the state forest department has called for a teacher from Assam. The state forest department has initiated talks with the Assam government for bringing in a tamed tusker to train the wild ones here.
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Funds for fire squad in Dalma villages
Jamshedpur, March 17: The state forest department has involved 82 villages in the Dalma range to check forest fires this summer.
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Nanotech aid for farmers - Project in progress at ISI
Giridih, March 16: The effect of nanotechnology on agriculture could generate some interesting results, feel scientists at the Indian Statistical Institute, Giridih centre. Chemical fertilisers and pesticides are harmful to the ecology. Thus, the Union ministry of science and technology has funded a research development programme of agro-enterotoxic nano-particles and its uses.
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Auto cluster fails deadline
Adityapur industrial area: Slow progress Jamshedpur, March 15: The ambitious project of developing the state
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Bird flu focus at science show
Dhanbad, March 15: Students from more than 82 government schools in Dhanbad came together today to exhibit their skills at a district-level science exhibition on Zilla Parishad grounds. The event was inaugurated by deputy commissioner of Dhanbad Ajay Kumar Singh.