Archive for March, 2009
by Rashmi Ekka
March 18th, 2009
Ranchi, March 17: A girl from Lohardaga, who went to New Delhi in search of a job and became a victim of trafficking, was finally rescued from Jammu and Kashmir yesterday.
Sunita Kumari, 18, daughter of retired army man Sukro Oraon and a resident of Mahuari village in the district, was trafficked to Srinagar, from where [...]
by Jyoti Sonia Dhan
March 18th, 2009
Ranchi, Feb. 3: At a time when the World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that India will become the “world capital” of coronary heart disease by 2020, a Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) student in the state capital has come out with a surprising fact.
His research, spanning over two years, has shown that the [...]
by Jyoti Sonia Dhan
March 18th, 2009
At the beginning of 2009, one more Adivasi woman was killed in the name of witch-hunting in Jharkhand. 45 year old Sukhmani Barla of Arhara village of Kamdara block near Ranchi was chopped by her neighbour Bagda Munda alleging her of being a witch. Bagda Munda’s daughter Saniya Munda had been suffering from illness for [...]