Maternal mortality rate in the state: 370 per 1 lakh.

Maternal mortality rate in the country: 250 per 1 lakh.

These startling figures came to the fore at the ongoing leadership training programme for medical officers at XLRI today.

The programme on reproductive health also threw up an infant mortality rate shocker. The current rate in the state is 48 per 1,000.

Saving the greens will soon be a part of the curriculum of state-run schools.

The initiative has been taken under School Chalo Abhiyan, which starts from July 1. Students will participate in environment campaigns at their respective schools.

All the schools have been asked to involve their students in the green drive.

Braving the heat, over 7,000 people today marched to Harmu river, vowing to bring it back to life from deathbed.

Choosing the occasion of rath yatra to retrieve and de-pollute the river that runs through the state capital, they termed degradation of Harmu river as an attack on existence of nature and held selfish people responsible for it.

The proposed site for the drinking water project
Ranchi, June 23: Administrative dilly-dallying is once again threatening to delay the Mango drinking water project, pending for two years now.

Like many students she has taken up science at Plus Two, but unlike them she is not thinking of a conventional career in engineering or medical.

Her love lies with nature and she wants to make a career out of it. Parnika Praleya of Loyola School have got an opportunity to study environmental engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

The four-laning project of Ranchi-Jamshedpur stretch of National Highway 33, which had almost been forgotten, has got a fresh lease of life.

The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has finally found five bidders for the ambitious project to be executed under BOT (toll) basis.

SUDHIR KUMAR MISHRA & PINAKI MAJUMDAR
The proposed site for the Mango drinking water project. File picture

Ranchi/Jamshedpur, June 10: The governor

Jamshedpur, June 7: For Sudha Mahto, a resident of Sarjamda panchayat in Jamshedpur block, summers mean aching limbs and a painful back, thanks to the daily trips of around 10km in search of drinking water.

If the Jamshedpur national highway division has its way, residents of the steel city

The state

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