Alok Pandey And Haribansh Sharma

Rs 35 lakh, three years of working out the permissions and navigating his single-engine aircraft through 14 counties - for 65-year-old Debashish Bannerjee, the ride wasn't easy but a promise had to be kept.

220 kilometres from Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, in Garhwa's Pratapur village, 55-year-old Ram Patiya Devi's family feels she is dying. They feel she will soon be the 37th, in a list of deaths in the village in the last decade, due to skeletal fluorosis, a disease caused by excessive fluoride in ground water that accumulates in bones and weakens the...

For a public hearing on the National Food Security Act in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, conducted by activists in the presence of government officials, 75-year-old Jasmati Lohrain walked over four kilometres in the searing heat. The hearing, attended by over 500 villagers in Gumla’s Bharno block, was her only chance to get government officials to...

A passionate footballer at 17, Sunita Kumari, who lives in a village outside of Ranchi, was recently the youngest speaker in Denmark amid accomplished women footballers from around the world. She plays forward at an attacking position which resonates with her attitude in life. In 2010, Sunita joined a football academy and educational facility near ...

Prem Dayamani, a villager living 30 km from Ranchi, had an average income of Rs 27 a day last year. That’s Rs 5 less than the minimum cost of living in rural areas, which, the Planning Commission said in 2014, was Rs 32 a day. Even so, part of the payment was only on paper. Last year, she got nothing. “I got last year’s money this year. Had I...

Within their modest two room house in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, it is a normal, playful childhood for eight-year-old Anjali and her 20-month-old brother Keshav. It is when Anajli steps out for school each day that the problems take over.

Over a hundred letters, Rs 5 enclosed in each of them, addressed to the Prime Minister's Office in Delhi. The senders are the villagers in Jharkhand's Latehar, who say they could do without the Rs 5 wage hike under MNREGA.

When Jharkhand declared a drought in December, farmers like 45-year-old Karma Oraon, who lives around 45 km from state capital Ranchi and supports a family of six, hoped the losses from crop failure could be offset. The Centre's rural jobs scheme or MNREGA guarantees 100 days of employment to the rural poor.

A few months ago, she quit the life of a rebel and enrolled at a school away from her village, hoping to live a life of anonymity. Sangeeta dared to dream of education and of a career away from violence. But this is probably what killed her last week.

Navigating treacherous terrain, an 11-year-old girl trekked eight kilometres with her younger brother hoisted on her shoulders to the nearest hospital from her village in Jharkhand's Godda district on Monday. Doctors say the girl Malti Tudu's brave effort have saved six-year-old Michael's life.

The Jharkhand government has removed Chief Secretary Sajal Chakraborty well ahead of the scheduled completion of his tenure.

On his way to his residence after the oath ceremony at Ranchi's Birsa Munda Football stadium, Jharkhand's new Chief Minister Raghubar Das made an unscheduled stop at Kantatoli intersection in the middle of the city. And there, in a bylane, he picked up a broom to kick off his own cleanliness mission.

Launched in 2005 by the UPA government, the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act was intended to help the poor by promising 100 days of work a year to rural households at a pre-determined minimum wage rate. In the last decade, there has been mixed opinion on the success of the initiative. But in the last few months, the central government ...

BJP President Amit Shah and senior party leader and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley released the party's manifesto today for the forthcoming Jharkhand assembly elections.

More than 300 jawans of the CRPF , fighting Naxals in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, are having to tackle a new menace these days: malaria Malaria has hit the district in a big way and CRPF camps are very badly hit . Add to this lack of basic health infrastructure across the district, and there is a very serious problem facing our soldiers.

Rs 35 lakh, three years of working out the permissions and navigating his single-engine aircraft through 14 counties - for 65-year-old Debashish Bannerjee, the ride wasn't easy but a promise had to be kept.

220 kilometres from Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, in Garhwa's Pratapur village, 55-year-old Ram Patiya Devi's family feels she is dying. They feel she will soon be the 37th, in a list of deaths in the village in the last decade, due to skeletal fluorosis, a disease caused by excessive fluoride in ground water that accumulates in bones and weakens the...

For a public hearing on the National Food Security Act in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, conducted by activists in the presence of government officials, 75-year-old Jasmati Lohrain walked over four kilometres in the searing heat. The hearing, attended by over 500 villagers in Gumla’s Bharno block, was her only chance to get government officials to...

A passionate footballer at 17, Sunita Kumari, who lives in a village outside of Ranchi, was recently the youngest speaker in Denmark amid accomplished women footballers from around the world. She plays forward at an attacking position which resonates with her attitude in life. In 2010, Sunita joined a football academy and educational facility near ...

Prem Dayamani, a villager living 30 km from Ranchi, had an average income of Rs 27 a day last year. That’s Rs 5 less than the minimum cost of living in rural areas, which, the Planning Commission said in 2014, was Rs 32 a day. Even so, part of the payment was only on paper. Last year, she got nothing. “I got last year’s money this year. Had I...

Within their modest two room house in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, it is a normal, playful childhood for eight-year-old Anjali and her 20-month-old brother Keshav. It is when Anajli steps out for school each day that the problems take over.

Over a hundred letters, Rs 5 enclosed in each of them, addressed to the Prime Minister's Office in Delhi. The senders are the villagers in Jharkhand's Latehar, who say they could do without the Rs 5 wage hike under MNREGA.

When Jharkhand declared a drought in December, farmers like 45-year-old Karma Oraon, who lives around 45 km from state capital Ranchi and supports a family of six, hoped the losses from crop failure could be offset. The Centre's rural jobs scheme or MNREGA guarantees 100 days of employment to the rural poor.

A few months ago, she quit the life of a rebel and enrolled at a school away from her village, hoping to live a life of anonymity. Sangeeta dared to dream of education and of a career away from violence. But this is probably what killed her last week.

Navigating treacherous terrain, an 11-year-old girl trekked eight kilometres with her younger brother hoisted on her shoulders to the nearest hospital from her village in Jharkhand's Godda district on Monday. Doctors say the girl Malti Tudu's brave effort have saved six-year-old Michael's life.

The Jharkhand government has removed Chief Secretary Sajal Chakraborty well ahead of the scheduled completion of his tenure.

On his way to his residence after the oath ceremony at Ranchi's Birsa Munda Football stadium, Jharkhand's new Chief Minister Raghubar Das made an unscheduled stop at Kantatoli intersection in the middle of the city. And there, in a bylane, he picked up a broom to kick off his own cleanliness mission.

Launched in 2005 by the UPA government, the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act was intended to help the poor by promising 100 days of work a year to rural households at a pre-determined minimum wage rate. In the last decade, there has been mixed opinion on the success of the initiative. But in the last few months, the central government ...

BJP President Amit Shah and senior party leader and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley released the party's manifesto today for the forthcoming Jharkhand assembly elections.

More than 300 jawans of the CRPF , fighting Naxals in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, are having to tackle a new menace these days: malaria Malaria has hit the district in a big way and CRPF camps are very badly hit . Add to this lack of basic health infrastructure across the district, and there is a very serious problem facing our soldiers.