The digital means to mass empowerment
A smart card developed through Indo-German collaboration is doing its bit to improve social security services in the country. But technology is useless if the service infrastructure is poor If there’s been one useful development in public services over the decades, it is digitisation. Of course, India wouldn’t be India if...
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Disband NAC for good
31 May 2013 | Pioneer -
China protests too much
31 May 2013 | Pioneer -
For them, guns bring justice
31 May 2013 | Arindam Chaudhuri -
Holy cow! It's a bad portent
31 May 2013 | Anuradha Dutt -
Saving children from death, stunting and severe sickness
31 May 2013 | Dipika Sur -
let's work for gross national happiness
31 May 2013 | Vinayshil Gautam -
Jamshedpur shines in class 10 board exams
31 May 2013 | Parvinder Bhatia
AISSE-13: Bokaro Steel schools post excellent results
Students of Bokaro Steel Plant (BSl) run schools have done the city proud by posting hundred percent results in the All India Secondary School Examination-2013. A total of 1262 students had appeared from the 19 BSl schools including the the two schools run under BSl’s CSR— Bokaro Steel Kalyan Vidyalaya and...
Students jubilant
With the publication of the CBSE X – 2013 results, waves of exhilaration have unleashed among the students of DAV Public School, Hazaribagh. The jubilant students thronged the school premises and shared their happiness with each other. Almost 408 students took their exams and all of them passed with wonderful...
VBU accepts new research rules and regulations
The academic council of Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, accepted and approved the new rules and regulations of research framed as per the norms of UGC. These rules have been prepared by a team of senior professors of the university with the coordination of ex-higher education director of the State Dr. KK...
Maoist suspect nabbed at Kuchai, explosives seized
The security forces nabbed a suspected Maoist at Donga Marcha village under Kuchai police station area of Saraikela-Kharsawan. The forces also recovered some improvised explosive devices (IED) used for blast and some cartridges of self loading rifles (SlR). Deputy Inspector General of Police (Kolhan) A K Singh on Thursday informed that...
'Secondhand smoke equally dangerous'
Dr Amit Kumar, oncologist at Meherbai Tata Memorial Hospital, has expressed concern over the rising cases of secondhand smoke in the city. On the eve of World No Tobacco Day, he noted: “Secondhand smoke is inhaled by a non-smoker. It is found that 66 per cent of the smoke from...
SAIl commissions Rs 5,500-cr projects in '12-13
Steel Authority of India limited’s (SAIl) relentless drive to fast-track its modernisation and expansion plan (MEP), resulted in commissioning of projects worth Rs 5500 crores in 2012-13. The company’s capital expenditure during FY13 was Rs 9731 crore. Under the MEP, cumulative orders worth Rs 58,225 crore were placed and an expenditure...
Researchers roll out Puri-Konark growth plan
Research scholars of the CEPT University of Ahmedabad on Wednesday presented detailed development projects for the Puri-Konrak region and 131 adjoining revenue villages situated under the blocks of Astarang, Kakatpur, Gop, Puri Sadar and Brahmagiri. The reasearchers’ report stated that the Puri-Konark tourist-cum-pilgrim circuit would be transformed into a modern tourist...
