GUMLA: Now farmers can preserve and register traditional varieties of crop seeds under the Farmers Rights Act. The registered varieties can then be preserved in the gene bank of the Protection of Plants
The government is planning to revive the dried up sources of water apart from encouraging rainwater harvesting to reduce water wastage in the state, said state rural development secretary Arun Kumar in
The lid is off a basic reason why generations of girls drop out of school, never discovering their potential. Schools, state-run or otherwise, may have a toilet, but if existing loos lack basics such
Residents of Gunia build a temporary barrier with sandbags on the rivulet in December last year and a paddy grower in the village. Telegraph pictures Ranchi, June 10: Some 550 sandbags, a day of labour
And it’s time to take on an elephantine challenge. Nearly 3,000 surveyors — armed with notebooks, pencils and area maps — will fan out across all the 24 districts of the state from Friday to tally the
This study provides insights to some of the key functions of the Integrated Child Development Scheme and health services in the management of childhood under-nutrition in six key empowered action group
New Delhi, Feb. 7 (PTI): The world’s largest steel maker ArcelorMittal, which was unable to get regulatory approvals for its proposed $30-billion investments, has for the time being put on hold its India
Ranchi, Aug. 29: A Comptroller & Auditor General’s report, tabled in the Assembly today, has pulled up the state for poor implementation of a central government scheme for rural roads, pointing to substandard
For more than six months a year, vast swathes of land in the rain-dependent rice belts of Jharkhand remained barren, forcing farmers to migrate to other cities in search of livelihoods. The trend has reversed at least in one place, in the Maoist-infested Bishunpur block in Gumla district
Ranchi, May 16: The king of fruits has finally conquered Lohardaga, Latehar, Gumla and West Singhbhum. For the first time this year, mango trees planted by the state government under National Horticulture Mission (NHM) have borne a large number of fruits, promising a bumper crop.
