Ranchi, Feb. 17: Installation of cellphone towers without permission of proper authorities has been brought under the scanner of the Jharkhand High Court.

Numerous mobile towers have been erected across the length and breadth of the city without adhering to the norms for personal gain by cellular companies has been raised in a public interest litigation filed before the high court today.

Eminent soil scientist and former executive director of MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, M. Velayutham today stressed on the need to set up a state farmers

Ranchi, Feb. 9: In an unusual show of rage, farmers are destroying tomatoes to protest low prices and highlight the lack of cold storage and food processing facilities in Pithoria, Bhuiyandih and Patamda, the vegetable baskets of Ranchi and East Singhbhum.

For more than three hours today, scores of people watched in awe the annular solar eclipse

Ranchi, Jan. 10: Scientists of Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, are getting ready to witness the solar eclipse that will occur on January 15, a day after Makar Sankranti.

Ranchi, Jan. 4: Two students of Jharkhand State Bal Bhavan, Rishabh Raj of St Thomas School and Mohit Kumar Gupta of Holy Child School, left for New Delhi today to take part in the National Young Environment-alist Conference to be held from January 6 to 10.

The government of India has shifted from cash payment of wages under the renamed Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Scheme to settlement through bank accounts. This has been done in order to prevent defrauding of workers and to give them greater control over their wages. Has this been achieved after the switch?

Ranchi, Dec. 20: Exotic birds will soon find enough space to stretch their wings at the upcoming aviary at Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park.

The aviary, to measure 300ftx150ft, is located next to the old bird house at the zoo, 23km from the capital.

It will have artificial nests, a water channel (pool) and two artificial waterfalls that would empty into the pool.

It pays to go Dutch. Ask Rasila Kothari, 52, who took to commercial cultivation of Dutch roses in Chandwe village, near Ranchi in Jharkhand.

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