Political leaders including AJSU supremo Sudesh Mahato, Giridih MP Chandraprakash Chaudhary and locals of Dhanbad on Thursday paid tributes to former Tundi MLA Raj Kishore Mahato, who passed away at the age of 75 on Wednesday while undergoing treatment at the Asian Durgadas Jalan Memorial Hospital. The leader died at around 8:30 pm on the day. The politician joined active politics following the death of his father Binod Bihari Mahato, who was the founder of JMM, and contested the parliamentary election in 1991 to win a seat at Giridih. He later won the assembly election from Sindri on a BJP…
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The disabled persons of the district on Thursday took part in a unique protest as they hit the streets with begging bowl near the district collectorate at Sakchi. Around 50 physically disabled persons under the banner of Akhil Bhartiya Viklang Adhikari Sangh sat with begging bowl along the Subarnarekha Link Road near the district collectorate. The protest, in which the agitated disabled persons demanded advance pension, began at 10.30 am continued for over two hours. We chose today for the protest as it is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. During the lockdown in March, the Centre had announced to give three months pension in advance…
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, in a letter written on Wednesday, requested Union health minister Harsh Vardhan to reconsider the decision of the National Medical Council (NMC) to stop admission process in three newly-formed medical colleges of the state. “I have spoken to the Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhanji,” Soren tweeted on Thursday, adding he requested the Union minister to reconsider the matter that involves future of the students. The NMC had earlier decided to stop admission of students in three newly-formed medical colleges located at Hazaribagh, Palamau and Dumka for the academic year 2020-21, citing lack of infrastructure…
Samarthya, the student body of XLRI which help school students realise their potential by focusing on social and emotional learning, successfully conducted the annual event ‘Reflections -2020’ virtually on Thursday. The event was organised on the topic ‘Mental Health and the Pandemic: Its implications and how to cope’. ‘Reflections – 2020’ emphasised the importance of mental health, especially during these challenging times, and initiated discussions amongst students, teachers, and parents on various issues that affect school children, like their social connections, physical health, and performance in studies. It is imperative to help students and their families deal with the anxiety…
Left parties and social groups linked to them have announced statewide road blockades on December 10 in solidarity with protesting farmers, who are camping on the borders of Delhi in support of their demand to repeal the new farm laws enacted by the Narendra Modi government. As a prelude to the December 10 blockade, Left parties will also hold candlelight processions across district and block levels. Days earlier, on December 5, they will hold block-level demonstrations. A decision to this effect was taken at a joint meeting, held between representatives of CPI, CPM, CPI (M-L), Marxists Coordination Committee (MCC) on…
Thanks to Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC), vehicle parking will be a lot safer in Steel City now. The civic body, JNAC, is all set to have surveillance cameras and barricades installed in parking lots across the city. The move to put parking zones under surveillance aims to curb the menace of vehicle theft, which has been on the rise of late. Significantly, the civic authority has put up a drop gate at one of the parking areas in Bistupur to assure owners that their vehicles are protected. City Manager, JNAC, Sandeep Kumar Singh, while explaining the need for such…
Security forces on Thursday recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition and sex toys from a Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP) hideout in Palamau after a brief gun battle with the rebels, police said on Thursday. During a search operation, security forces recovered one AK-56 rifle, three magazines, a country-made pistol, about two dozen cartridges, 8 cell phones, a couple of walkie talkies and notebooks. A CRPF officer said that they also found a polythene sheet which meant that the rebels had spent considerable time there. However, the appearance of sex toys at the hideout of Left Wing Extremist (LWE)…
Chief minister Hemant Soren felicitated toppers of class 10 and 12 board exams on Thursday by presenting cheques worth Rs 1 lakh to each student for meritorious performance and also presided over the launch of two digital teaching platforms to improve the quality of online education in government schools. Hemant assured the government’s support to all the meritorious students of Jharkhand, asking them to aim high and strive for success in academics. “The government stands by your side. We will support meritorious students of our state in achieving success. Very soon, the government will also provide foreign scholarships to students of…
Those seeking government jobs in Jharkhand will from next April have to submit affidavits declaring they would not consume tobacco products in office or outside. Stringent checking will be conducted at the state’s borders to prevent the entry of tobacco products for sale. (Individual visitors from other states are not banned from carrying their cigarettes or pan masala.) These were among decisions taken at a meeting of the state tobacco control coordination committee in Ranchi on Tuesday. In April this year, the Jharkhand government had banned the sale and use of all forms of tobacco — including cigarettes, beedis, pan masala, areca…
Pfizer Inc’s CEO Albert Bourla has said that the company is “not certain” if its COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed in collaboration with German drugmaker BioNTech SE prevented the transmission of the novel coronavirus. In a recent interview with NBC, when Bourla was asked by the host if he will be able to transmit the infection to other people if he is Bourla Pfizer CEO replied that “it needs to be examined”. Bourla’s response was one of the highlights before the special was released before special, just days after the UK became the world’s first country to give formal authorisation to…