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Ranchi, Aug. 3: While the state is reeling from severe power crisis, the lack of Tenughat Vidyut Nigam Limited (TVNL) chairman is a spanner in generating capacity power at the plant.

Equipped with two units with a total installed capacity of 440 MW, TVNL is being forced to operate only one. Reason: since June 18, there is no one to authorise payments for regular coal purchases or to renew contracts with transporters for carrying coal from the collieries of Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) to the TVNL plant at Lalpania.

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Consumers are often victims of poor quality water supplied by civic authorities. Besides water borne diseases, in many districts of the country, consumers suffer the debilitating effects of high levels of toxic heavy metals and even pesticides and other chemicals in water. Now two recent orders of the apex consumer court have opened the doors of the consumer court to petitions from citizens on the poor quality of water. Both the orders give directions to the municipal bodies to ensure the safety of water supplied to citizens.

East Singhbhum superintendent of police Naveen Kumar Singh waters a plant on the school premises. Telegraph picture
Jamshedpur, Aug. 3: Birhors, Sabars, Paharias, Santhalis and Mundaris today matched their steps at a tree plantation programme organised at Bharat Sevashram Sangh run Swami Parnavanand Centenary Girls' Residential School.

With pollution level rising in the state and in the country, the school thought of organising such a programme and invited East Singhbhum superintendent of police Naveen Kumar Singh to be the chief guest on the occasion.

East Singhbhum superintendent of police Naveen Kumar Singh waters a plant on the school premises. Telegraph picture
Jamshedpur, Aug. 3: Birhors, Sabars, Paharias, Santhalis and Mundaris today matched their steps at a tree plantation programme organised at Bharat Sevashram Sangh run Swami Parnavanand Centenary Girls' Residential School.

With pollution level rising in the state and in the country, the school thought of organising such a programme and invited East Singhbhum superintendent of police Naveen Kumar Singh to be the chief guest on the occasion.

Ranchi, Aug. 3: For 16 students of city-based Sapphire International School, flying a space craft at Nasa's space research centre at Albama in the US will become a reality this October.

This is the first time that state students are going to Nasa. The school management is currently preparing the final list of students from Class III to VII, who will be chosen for the trip.

The students, aged nine-14 years, will leave on October 5 with their principal Anupama Singh and a science teacher.

Movement of vehicles at Karandih-Hata Road came to a grinding halt for two hours this morning as activists of Jharkhand Disom Party (JDP) blocked the road as a part of the Jharkhand bandh.

The bandh call was given opposing the rehabilitation and re-settlement (R&R) policy, which was approved by the state cabinet recently.

Carrying placards and banners, the activists of the party assembled at Karandih, a tribal dominated area.

Jamshedpur, July 24: Tata Steel Zoological Society has lost a family member.

Varsha, the ailing female leopard, died this morning in the zoo hospital.

A post-mortem was done before the nine-year-old was put in an incinerator.

A favourite among children, Varsha fell sick after liver complications about a month ago. She had stopped taking food and had lost her strength to be ferocious.

Her condition deteriorated gradually till she became completely immobile. She died at 10.15 am today.

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Ranchi, July 24: Even after the mid-day meal scheme was launched five years ago in the state, 2 lakh students are not provided with food at government-run primary schools everyday.

Moreover, the dropout rate among Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes students is still higher compared to that of students from general category, reveals a study conducted by the state human resource development department during the last session.

Jamshedpur, July 24: Jindal Steel and Power Limited has opened its local office in the city to expedite the process of land acquisition for its greenfield project.

The office that came up in New Baradwari would deal with the process of land acquisition for its proposed 5-million-tonne steel plant project.

The plant will be set up at Asanboni, about 25km from Jamshedpur.

The office premises would remain busy with the visitors, especially rayiats possessing landed properties at Asanboni and also the middlemen.

Forest officials of Dalma wildlife sanctuary are frantically searching for experts to fix radio collars on elephants as funds for the purpose have been returned twice.

From 2007, the Centre has been giving Rs 8 lakh per year to the state to get the radio tracking system rolling. Senior officials at Dalma wildlife sanctuary said they had approached the Centre for funds to start the project to keep track on tuskers.