Avi Mohan Shukla demonstrates the InnoBox to farmers Ranchi: At an age when most students were busy with Class 12 board exams, 17-year-old Avi Mohan Shukla was spending nights building a device to tackle one of Jharkhand’s most persistent rural crises — human-elephant conflict.The urgency is stark. In Hazaribag’s Barkatha block, a 32-year-old daily wager…
The chariot built for the Rath Yatra organised in Hazaribag Dhanbad/Hazaribag: The Rath Yatra in Dhanbad and Hazaribag will blend tradition with technology, with Iskcon introducing specially designed hydraulic chariots capable of lowering their height to navigate overhead obstacles while ensuring the grandeur of the festival remains intact.In Dhanbad, Lord Jagannath, accompanied by Lord Balabhadra…
Jamshedpur: For hundreds of teachers deputed as booth level officers (BLOs) in urban Jamshedpur, the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has become a punishing test of endurance, with many claiming they are getting barely three to four hours of sleep a night.Govt-aided school teachers, who make up a sizeable section of the…
Jamshedpur: The East Singhbhum district administration has announced extensive traffic diversions and a complete ban on the entry of heavy vehicles in the city on July 16 in view of the Jagannath Rath Yatra festivities.Acting on the joint directions of deputy commissioner Rajiv Ranjan and senior superintendent of police Ehtesham Waqarib, traffic police have put…
Ranchi: Gender equity and inclusivity are set to become central to the everyday culture of classrooms across Jharkhand. The Jharkhand Education Project Council (JEPC) has extended its collaboration with the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), a US-based global non-profit research institute, to advance gender-responsive and inclusive education across the state.In a statement, JEPC…
Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar being felicitated at the event on Wednesday Ranchi: Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, on Wednesday announced setting up of a Centre of Excellence featuring eight high-performance computing systems powered by Nvidia B200 GPUs.Accessible to authorised users via public IP-based access, the facility aims to foster wider participation among faculty, researchers,…
Hazaribag: A month-long drinking water quality testing campaign across all 16 blocks of Hazaribag district has found all 15,529 samples collected from different sources to be within prescribed safety limits, officials said on Wednesday.The exercise was conducted by the drinking water and sanitation department on the directions of deputy commissioner Hemant Sati to assess drinking…
Garhwa: Govt-run Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) in Karondhi reopened on Tuesday, 17 days after it was closed following a case of food poisoning which left 71 hostels students, ill on June 26 after allegedly drinking contaminated water.Before to its reopening, district education officer Jaggarnath Lohra met the school management, teachers and guardians of students…
Bokaro: Twenty police stations across the district were provided scientific investigation kits on Tuesday.Each kit contains 2,000 shoe covers, 2,000 disposable caps, 2,000 pairs of hand gloves, 2,000 face masks, 120 traffic cones, 20 rolls of crime scene tape, 15 megaphones, 42 sirens, 15 portable outdoor sound monitoring (POSM) machines equipped with hand-held sound level…
Ranchi: The Jharkhand Education Project Council (JEPC) on Tuesday announced the schedule for the 65th State-Level Subroto Mukherjee Football Tournament for the 2026-27 academic session from July 17.The five-day tournament will be held from July 17 to 21 at Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium in Khelgaon, Ranchi. Winning teams from all divisions of the state will…
