Giridih (cow shed) fair. Giridih has many prestigious colleges and schools. The major colleges in this town include – Khandoli Institute of Technology affiliated to AICTe Schools include – Hindi newspapers Hindustan Dainik, Dainik Bhaskar, Prabhat Khabar and Dainik Jagran are the popular newspapers as the local language is Hindi. The main English newspapers covering Giridih are The Telegraph, The Times of India and The Hindustan Times. City News (News line) channel for the cable network provides the local news from Giridih. Doordarshan Jharkhand is the official channel covering Giridih. Giridih has several religious and scenic tourist spots, including the following:
Dainik Basumati publication. Dainik Basumati Dainik Basumati was a Bengali daily published from Kolkata by the Basumati Corporation Limited. It was first published on 6 August 1914 and stopped publication in 2003. In 1881, Upendranath Mukhopadhyay started the Basumati Sahitya Mandir with the blessings of Sri Ramakrishna as a publishing house in Beadon Street. Later he shifted his workplace to Grey Street and finally to the present location at Bowbazar Street. In 1895, inspired by Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya started publishing "Weekly Basumati", a digest of the news from all over the world. On 6 August 1914, the "Dainik Basumati" began. In 1941, the