Jamshedpur, Feb. 27: The board examinations are round the corner and suicide prevention centre Jeevan has started thinking about stress-busters that would help students.

The exams are scheduled to begin on March 1 — for ICSE, ISC.

“There are several significant problem areas that ought to be addressed at the earliest. When such cases are not taken care, a lot of adverse effects are felt,” said Mahavir Ram, the director of Jeevan.

While experts prescribe that students be kept absolutely stress free during the exam period, last-minute studies and revisions tend to put pressure on students. Most of the pressure is felt during this last stage.

A word of caution has also come from the experts: children should never be burdened with the expectations of their parents.

Jamshedpur, Feb 26: Leading domestic steel maker Tata has welcomed the Railway Budget 2008-09 saying it promised a lot of action and has many initiatives which could be taken forward.

"The budget promises a lot of action and it has many initiatives that can be taken forward. We would also like to congratulate the Minister (Lalu Prasad) for presenting a surplus budget of 25,000 crores and provisions for use of IT and also proposal for investment in infrastructure," Tata Steel Chief Operating Officer H M Nerurkar said in a statement.

He said there has been no increase in the freight in comparison to last year and there has been no adverse effect compared to previous year.

"But we were expecting a reduction in freight for raw material and steel as the Indian freight rate is the highest in the World," he said.

Jamshedpur, Feb. 26: Tata Steel has decided to draw up an action plan to revive Incab Industries Limited. Senior Tata Steel officials today held a meeting with Incab employees to find a way out to revive the company in a streamlined manner.

Vice-president (corporate services) of Tata Steel Partho Sengupta said Incab unions would have to meet them halfway to make the revival possible. “We are ready to do our part to end the present crisis, provided the trade unions forget their differences and join hands to ensure a smooth revival of the company,” he added.

Over 200 Incab employees gathered at the Cable Welfare Association hall this evening to put forth their problems and ask for solutions.

Jamshedpur, Feb. 26: Jan Kalyan Morcha, an NGO of Adityapur, will form an independent committee for monitoring the construction work of the second road overbridge over the Kharkai.

The NGO had played an important role in pressurising the state government to sanction funds for the second bridge for which the state cabinet recently gave its nod.

“The bridge must be constructed according to the specification and within the time-frame set by the public works department (road andbridge),” said the NGO’s president, Om Prakash.

Prakash said that according to the drawing, the second road overbridge would be made four lane and that any anomaly in the quality of the construction would not be tolerated. Public works department (road construction) has on Saturday floated a tender for construction of the four-lane road bridge to be completed by March 2009.