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  Know about Giridih : eGiridih.Com home page
GIRIDIH, Nov. 8: Maoist extremists have begun a poster campaign in Giridih district of Jharkhand, and Jamui districtof Bihar.
Giridih, is one of the districts of Jharkhand state, India.
The literal meaning of Giridih is the land of hills and hillocks - giri, a Hindi word, means hills and dih, another word of the local dialect, indicates upland.
www.egiridih.com   (1366 words)

  
  Science Fair Projects - Giridih
Giridih, is one of the districts of Jharkhand state, India.
The literal meaning of Giridih is the land of hills and hillocks ('giri', meaning hills and 'dih', indicationg upland).
Giridih was earlier a part of Hazaribagh district.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Giridih   (301 words)

  
 Giridih
Giridih (गिरिडीह), is one of the districts of Jharkhand state, India, and Giridih town is the district headquarters.
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.
Giridih district was earlier a part of Hazaribagh district.
www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DGiridih%26type%3Den   (515 words)

  
 giridih - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
The literal meaning of Giridih is the land Hills & Hillocks (giri, meaning hills & 'dih', indicationg upland).
Giridih was earlier a part of Hazaribag district.
Major ones are: Usri Falls (13 kms), Khandoli (8kms) is a famous picnic spot, Baidadih with a well with water reputed to contain several minerals.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Giridih   (175 words)

  
 Giridih district
Giridih district is one of the twenty-two districts of Jharkhand state, India, and Giridih is the administrative headquarters of this district.
Giridih district was created on 6th December 1972 by carving some parts of Hazaribagh District.
Leopards, bears, jackals, wild pigs, and hares are the wild animals found in certain parts of the district which have thick forests.
www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/gi/Giridih%20district.htm   (269 words)

  
 Saffron conspiracy against CPI(ML) in Giridih: Waves of resistance by the people
The litany of false cases@· Comrade Loknath Paswan was booked under a false case lodged by the wife of an absentee landlord that Loknath was the leader of the struggle to illegally occupy the land belonging to the landlord.@· Comrade Rajkumar Yadav was booked in false cases under Arms Act.
It is Giridih district which acted as the launching pad for this overall expansion.
The people at large are realising that the attack on CPI(ML) is an attack on democracy, on the rural poor’s quest for a life with dignity and on the assertion of dalits and tribals in Jharkhand.
www.cpiml.org /liberation/year_2002/april/special%20feature%20jharkhand.htm   (1963 words)

  
 Official Web site of Giridih district Administration
Giridih district was carved out from Hazaribagh district on 4 Dec 1972.
The Giridih district is spread over an area of 4853.56sq km The famous Parasnath hill(the
Content Owned,Maintened and updated by Giridih District Adminstration Giridih
giridih.nic.in   (178 words)

  
 AID- Jharkhand - Tribal Children Trapped In Mica Mines(Giridih) Jharkhand   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In Jharkhand Giridih and Koderama districts are popular for mica.
In Tisri block in Giridih district alone, 3018 working children in mica related work was detected.
block in giridih district of jharkhand is a geographically degraded zone and very remote and inaccessible.
www.aidjharkhand.org /giridih.html   (680 words)

  
 Giridh, Travel to Giridh, Giridh Hotel, Giridh Tourism, Giridh Travel Guide, Giridh Travel Agency, What to do in ...
Giridih can also be reached by bus from Dhanbad.
Below flows down the tfsri river and a little away is the Khandoli hills, at the foot of which is the Sirsira Lake, the main water source of Giridih town.
Sir Jagadish Chandra Basu came to Giridih for change of climate and used to stay at the Santinivas.
www.seemyindia.com /bihar/bihar-giridih.html   (345 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Jamshedpur
Giridih, Sept. 23: Middlemen, in connivance with district administrative officials, have apparently made some quick money in the process of implementing a job scheme meant for villagers.
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, now an Act, has come a cropper in Giridih, one of the 200 districts where the central scheme is being implemented.
Two NGOs — Majdoor Kissan Samiti and Nari Shakti Sangathan — have found during a recent survey that though the registration process has begun in the district and over 1,50,000 people have registered their names none has got a job under the Centre’s “ambitious” scheme.
www.telegraphindia.com /1060924/asp/jamshedpur/story_6786104.asp   (165 words)

  
 Naxals gun down 8 in Jharkhand - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Giridih Deputy Commissioner (DC) Amarnath Singh said that two police personnel succumbed to their injuries at the Sadar Hospital in Giridih
Meanwhile, the Giridih police in coordination with Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP) have launched a massive combing operation.
A combing operation is on and we are hopeful of nabbing the culprits,” said Mr.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/nov132005/national17201020051112.asp   (310 words)

  
 Giridih: Upsurge Continues
Presently seven blocks of Giridih district are under the spell of a sustained upsurge, where people are increasingly leaving other political forces to join CPI(ML), political parties are undergoing splits and consequently CPI(ML) ranks are swelling with the inflow of activists.
In Giridih too this campaign is being pushed through in order to win back the rural poor to BJP’s fold.
On 7 October, several mass meetings were held at panchayat level to press distribution of free grain presently rotting in FCI godowns among the poor affected by the drought.
www.cpiml.org /liberation/year_2002/november/update1.htm   (589 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Jamshedpur
Giridih, Jan. 8: The famous waterfall of Giridih, Ushri Falls, which used to be crowded by tourists for most of the time in a year, is now lying desolate, as very few people visited the spot even during peak seasons such as New Year.
The beautiful tourist place that is considered the best in Giridih district has no takers even in the high time of picnic and other recreational activities, which begin mid-December and go on till early March.
Located about 8 km from Giridih-Tundi Road, the 25-feet-high waterfall, which has been the image of Giridih district for a long time and till the 90?s visitors used to flock the spot to see its beauty, is losing its sheen.
www.telegraphindia.com /1060109/asp/jamshedpur/story_5697777.asp   (507 words)

  
 Giridih travel guide - Wikitravel
Giridih, is headquarters of the district of the same name in Jharkhand.
There is a branch line from Madhupur to Giridih.
There are several passenger trains during the day and it takes about an hour to reach Giridih.
wikitravel.org /en/Giridih   (313 words)

  
 University of Virginia, Charlottesville bonds with the children of Bihar.
Over the last decade - since 1989, in fact - doctors from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, USA have made five trips to Giridih in Bihar to especially attend on children with facial defects.
The group of three plastic surgeons, three anesthesiologists, a pediatrician, two dentists, six nurses, a physical therapist, a medical student, and a photographer, most of whom are from the UVa Health Sciences Center, left Charlottesville on January 21.
The people of Giridih are in love with the 'daktarlog'.
www.goodnewsindia.com /Pages/content/friends/giridih.htm   (516 words)

  
 ۞ Giridih - Infos und Erklärungen auf www.lebenToday.de   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Giridih (hindi : गिरिडीह, Giriḍīh) ist die Distrikthauptstadt des gleichnamigen Verwaltungsdistrikts im indischen Unionsstaat Jharkhand.
In dem Distrikt leben dem Zensus (von 2001) zufolge 1.901.564 Einwohner; während in der Stadt selber wohl kaum mehr als 60.000 Bewohner leben, zählt die Agglomeration etwa 100.000 Menschen.
Giridih liegt am Rand einiger großer Kohlefelder, zudem gilt es als einer der Haupthandelsorte von Glimmer.
www.lebentoday.de /Giridih   (366 words)

  
 AID- Jharkhand (Giridih) - About Giridih District (Jharkhand)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
: Giridih district was part of the Hazaribagh district earlier.
The blocks in the district are : Bagodar, Bengabad,Bermo, Birni, Dhanwar, Deori, Dumri, Gande, Gawan, Giridih, Gumia, Isri, Jamua, Jaridih, Kasmar, Nawadih, Petarbar Pirtanr and tisri.
We have tried to provide the most authentic data available however we shall not be responsible for any mistake, discrepancies.
www.aidjharkhand.org /about_gir.html   (181 words)

  
 Giridih court issues production warrant against Soren .:. NewKerala.Com, India News Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"The First Additional Session Judge, Giridih, R M Tiwari issued the order after the defence pleaded that its client (Soren) could not appear at today's date as he is in Tihar Jail in connection with another case," Public Prosecutor Virendra Rai told PTI on phone.
Soren is facing charges of a three-decade-old triple murder case at Kudkko under Pirtand police station in Giridih district.
The former union minister, whose quantum of sentence would be delivered by the Tis Hazari court tomorrow in the the Shashinath Jha murder case, is also facing trial in a Jamtara court in the Chirrudih massacre case.
www.newkerala.com /news4.php?action=fullnews&id=61594   (462 words)

  
 Giridih District in India
Giridih District, spread over an area of 4,853 sq km, is located in the central part of the North Chota Nagpur Divison.
Giridih is famous for ruby, mica and also has several coal fields.
Usri fall, Khandoli Park, Madhuban, Jharkhand Dham and Harihar Dham are the other places to visit.
www.india9.com /i9show/13704.htm   (128 words)

  
 Bombs found in local train at Dhanbad station : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Twenty-two country made bombs were on Thursday recovered from a train at Dhanbad and two landmines found in a village in Giridih as the police continued raids against extremist hideouts.
Acting on a tip-off, the police checked the EMU train in Dhanbad section and found eighteen bombs concealed in a wrapper there, Giridih Superintendent of Police Bhageswar Jha said.
Some villagers came across two landmines, each weighing 15 kg, at Sidhwaswati village under Tisri police station in Giridih district.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1444666,000900030009.htm   (183 words)

  
 Informatics : E Governance bulletin from NIC --- (http://informatics.nic.in)
On this occasion a Vikas mela 2006 was also organized by the district administration.
Most of the schemes are to be implemented by the Rural Engineering Organization (REO), Giridih Division.
NIC state center and Giridih district unit extended full support to the district administration for the online inauguration.
www.informatics.nic.in /newsonline/n-view.asp?NewsID=654   (123 words)

  
 Important Tourist attraction of Giridih
Amidst in the range of the famous Parasnath Hills,the Usri River gushes down from a steep gorge, some 40 feet high in three separate streams.Located about 14 km away from east of Giridih Town.It is an favourite picnic spot.
A water reservoir some 8 km North-East of Giridih headquater is one of the best site for water related adventure sports and bird-watching.A watch tower and 600 feet high hillock offers a panoramic view of Khandoli site.Elephant and Camel Safari and numbers of other amusement facilities are available there including boating, Rock-climbing,Parasailing and Kayaking.
A samll hamlet about 60kms South-west of Giridih district headquater under Bagodar Block possesses the largest Shiva Linga of India.People from all over the India throngs over here every year.
giridih.nic.in /Tourist.htm   (397 words)

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