Latehar

Montfort Brother wins best teacher award

On: August 26, 2020

By Matters India Reporter Latehar, Aug 26, 2020: A Montfort educationist, who has spent four decades among the poorest of the poor in eastern India, has won the best teacher award given by an NGO. Brother K J Markose works at Birsa Munda High School Janho-Barwaiya, Manika, Latehar district, Jharkhand.Continue Reading

Electricity brings development to Maoist-hit Jharkhand village

By: Matters India

On: November 15, 2016

In: National

Latehar: Development has entered a village in Jharkhand after it braved Maoist threats to get electricity connection. “Farming has improved after electricity came here as we don’t need to bother about buying diesel,” says Sukhdev Oraon, a council member of Garu, a village in Latehar district and about 175 kmContinue Reading