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Dacoits loot Giridih Madhupur night train, shoot passenger posted on 13/05/2010 03:38:42 PM
Armed dacoits looted properties worth Rs 50 lakh and seriously injured a passenger on the Giridih-Madhupur Passenger train in Giridih district, railway officials said today.
Over 20 armed dacoits went into looting spree in the reserved and general compartments last night after the train left Giridih station, they said.
The gang looted cash, jewellery and mobile phones from the passengers, pulled the chain and fled with the booty.
The dacoits fired at a passenger identified as Pravin Sahay, a government employee, when he resisted their move.
Sahay was first taken to Madhupur hospital, from where he was referred to Sadar Hospital, Giridih.
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RSS man from Giridih held for blast posted on 09/05/2010 12:22:39 PM
police team from Rajasthan has detained a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh official in Jharkhand’s Giridih district for his alleged role in the 2007 Ajmer Sharif blast, which killed three people.
Mahendra, a native of Indore, used to be zilla pracharak of the Sangh’s Giridih unit. If he is found guilty, it would be the first proven link between the Sangh and a terrorist blast.
The anti-terrorism squad (ATS) picked Mahendra up from the compound of a school, the Saraswati Shishu Mandir, from where he had been carrying out the Sangh’s activities for the past one year.
Sources said Devendra Gupta, an arrested Ajmer Sharif blast suspect, had told the Rajasthan police that Mahendra was involved in the attack. They added that Devendra had also accepted his links with the Abhinav Bharat Sangathan, a Hindu radical group accused of involvement in the blast, which took place just outside the dargah of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.
“Ever since he (Mahendra) came to this place, he would rarely stay at home. He was on the move most of the time and spoke only to a select few,” a domestic help at Mahendra’s home here said.
Source : The Telegraph
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Mongia Hi Tech found to be the most corrupt unit posted on 03/04/2010 05:52:33 AM
State income-tax officials who conducted four days’ rigorous search in Mongia Hi-Tech Private Limited are surprised over their findings.
The iron and steel producing company is owned by Giridih Chamber of Commerce president Gunwant Singh (Mongia High-Tech).
After almost 90 hours of survey, Mongia has declared Rs 20 crore. Mongia have shown cash and ornaments worth Rs 40-50 lakh each and around 200 and 150 acres, respectively.
The additional director of the investigation, Ajit Kumar Srivastava, said: “Giridih has several industries functioning on a very large scale but if we can not conduct surveys, we will never know their actual capacity.”
“Though profits are flowing in, even first-aid medicines are not available in these units,” rued Giridih income-tax officer Shashi Ranjan.
“Labourers here have several diseases, while residents living nearby inhale poisonous gases,” said Srivastava.
The Telegraph had reported how thousands of lives are being affected from the polluting sponge iron units. Several protests have also taken place on the issue.
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| About Giridih |
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Giridih, is one of the districts of Jharkhand state, India. The literal meaning of Giridih is the land of hills & hillocks - giri, a Hindi word, means hills and dih, another word of the local dialect, indicates upland. The district of Giridih, acquired the status of an independent district on 6th Dec, 1972.
It lies 72 miles (115 km) northeast of Hazaribagh town, on both banks of the Usri River. In 1871 a branch line of the Eastern Railway was built to the town, increasing its importance as a transport centre for coal mined at nearby Kuharbarie, Serampore, and Baniadih. It is the headquarters of the country's major mica-producing firms.
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Achha yeh batao, Gupta ji tender kaise pass kara liye..koi setting hain kya
Sambhu Prasad. Welfare officer
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| GIRIDIH - COLONIAL TIMES - Excerpt from RUDYARD KIPLING's BOOK |
 | It is a queer life that they lead, these men of the coal-fields, and a ‘big’ life to boot. To describe one half of their labours would need a week at the least, and would be incomplete then. ‘If you want to see anything,’ they say, ‘you should go over to the Baragunda copper-mines; you should look at the Barakar ironworks; you should see our boring operations five miles away; you should see how we sink pits; you should, above all, see Giridih Bazar on a Sunday. Why, you haven’t seen anything. There’s no end of a Sonthal Mission hereabouts. All the little dev—dears have gone on a picnic. Wait till they come back, and see ’em learning to read. …… |
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| Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis |
 | He was the first Indian statistician to receive world recognition.In fact, the history of statistics in India is his personal history.
The founder of ISI, P.C. Mahalanobis, had established a centre here in 1931 because he liked the scenic beauty of Giridih. He used to be a frequent visitor to Giridih. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and scientist Sir J.C. Bose had worked on some of their great works from here.
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| Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose |
 | Indian plant physiologist and physicist whose invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later biophysicists Jagdish Chandra Bose also glorified the soil of Giridih. His then residence is known as "Vigyan Kendra". This organisation is run by "Bihar Council of Science and Technology". The personality had performed many researches in the same house. |
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| Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| The great literary figure Tagore also had been a resident of Giridih. He wrote his Shivaji Utsav in 1904 at Giridih. His then residence "Dwasika Bhawan" is still existing at Giridih. |
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