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Jharkhand
Tata Steel put this reservoir in during 1944 because Jamshedpur was running short of water, and the city is still only 15 km away.
This reservoir across the Subarnarekha at Ormanjhi opened in 1971 to supply Ranchi its drinking water; the picnic crowd came afterwards.
The largest zoo in Jharkhand belongs, unusually, to a steel plant: Bokaro Steel Plant owns and runs it, inside Bokaro Steel City.
More than a lakh people in Giridih drink from the reservoir behind this dam, which stands ten kilometres out of town on the Bengabad side, at the foot of…
Second of the four dams the Damodar Valley Corporation built in its first phase, Konar went into service in 1955 across a tributary of the Damodar in…
The Burha River falls through mid-forest inside Palamau Tiger Reserve, and what it makes is the highest waterfall in Jharkhand, and the 21st highest in India.
Water drops 320 feet here into forest thick enough that the sun struggles to get through it, which matters if you are carrying a camera and is welcome if you…
The wall here runs 4,789 metres across the Barakar, holding back a lake of about 65 square kilometres.
The seventy-two old temples are why anyone comes, and the panels on them repay slow looking: scenes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, worked into a…
People call it the Canada Dam, and the name is not a local invention: Canada's foreign minister, Lester B.
Deep inside the sal forests of what is now Palamau Tiger Reserve stand the twin forts of the Chero kings — the old fort of Medini Ray on the banks of the…
At Rajrappa the Damodar and Bhairavi rivers meet below a red-washed shrine of Chhinnamastika — the self-decapitated Tantric goddess who feeds her attendants…
