Jharkhand

Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs, Ananthkumar announced that the Central Government has approved the setting up of a Plastic Park in Deoghar District, Jharkhand, here today. The project would be set up at a cost of Rs. 120 crores in an area of 150 acres and a

The Meherbai Tata Memorial Hospital (MTMH), a 72-bed trust-managed cancer hospital located here, is set to become the first comprehensive cancer-care centre of the state with Tata Trusts deciding to support the hospital in a massive round of upgradation, which was inaugurated on Saturday by Tata

If you thought that YouTube is merely for browsing videos for fun, meet Ravi Singh Choudhary (24), who is changing the fortunes of many around him through Israeli farming techniques which are less labour intensive and highly productive, all of which he picked up from, believe it or not, YouTube. A

Three brave Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) climbers are ready to scale Mount Everest-the world's tallest mountain peak. The trio-Sandeep Tolia (42), Poonam Rana (21) and Swarnalata Dalai (20), who are back from Argentina after their Mount Aconcagua attempt will leave the steel city on

Using state of the art technology, Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital’s team of eminent ophthalmologists Dr.B.P.Kashyap and Dr.Bharti Kashyap along with Dr.Pritish Pronoy and Dr.Sunil Kumar, successfully removed cataract from the eyes of 125 men and women at the Sohri Chandravanshi Hospital at Bishrampur

If properly visualised, well planned and then well executed, with a good supervision, the adopted villages of Members of Parliament can bring wonders for the people. Here is an example of how Mahilong, the adopted village of local Rajya Sabha MP Mahesh Poddar, is changing for the better. This

Hazaribagh has become the first district in Jharkhand to install sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators. 10 such vending machines and incinerators have been installed at Kasturba Gandhi Awasiya Balika Vidyalayas. This will benefit benefit 3400 girl students allowing them easy access to

Sarita, 15, and her friend Mali, 14, are nothing short of stars at the middle school in Punsa village, about 25 km from the steel hub of Jamshedpur, in Jharkhand. Earlier this year, the two stopped their families from getting them married off — with a little help from “Pradeep sir”, their teacher

In Lohardaga district of Jharkhand, once a Maoist stronghold but now a peaceful town, the police have done exemplary work rescuing and rehabilitating some 22 child soldiers over the last three years. Nine of them have been admitted to schools, ten have been reunited with their parents as they

On the occasion of Bhai Dooj, the National Urban Livelihood Mission gifted sewing machines to 130 women to help them earn. The machines were distributed at a function organised by the Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee at Birsa Munda Town Hall in Sidhgora on Saturday. "I learnt stitching around five

This is another success story from Ekal. Apart from basic education Ekal also provides skill development training under the Gramothan Yojna at Ekal's Gramothan Resource Centres. At one such resource centre in Jharkhand training for computer literacy and stitching is also given. Here, one Supriya

Seema Kumari couldn't have asked for a better birthday gift as she turns 15 today. The Class IX student from Jharkhand's Ormanjhi district, who held her first football at the age of 10, is among a select bunch (in picture) picked to join a training course for coaches by Real Sociedad's La Liga team