The East Singhbhum district administration launched a massive mask-checking drive on Monday amid apprehensions of a second wave of coronavirus infections post the festival season. Led by an executive magistrate, policemen were on the job at various points at Sakchi, Bistupur and other places. Though Covid-19 cases have come down significantly in East Singhbhum, the district administration does not want to take chances. Checkpoints have been set-up in as many as 10 places at Sakchi, Bistupur, Golmuri, Sonari, Kadma, Jugsalai, Agrico and Parsudih. The checkpoint on Dobo-Kanderbera Road that connects the newly constructed bridge over river Subernarekha at Sonari was…
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The TRS working president KT Rama Rao called the BJP leaders as cousins of Goebbels. He said the saffron party leaders were spreading lies and making false promises to the voters’ due gain votes.“From state leaders to central ministers, everyone is spreading hatred and lies. The BJP today is hiding their inefficiency behind their lies,” KT Rama Rao said at a press conference. On the charge sheet released against the TRS government by the BJP, KTR said people could file many charges for making false promises during the elections.KTR said that the BJP government was on a selling spree. They are selling…
Narendra Modi’s clarion call for a Swachh Bharat had such a major impact on Sangeeta Devi of Pratappur, Jharkhand that she didn’t hesitate to take a loan to build a toilet in her home. Such has been the focus on usage of toilets, which is closely linked to the PM’s call for a Swachh Bharat, for women like Sangeeta Devi in rural Jharkhand, that they have built toilets in their village against all odds. These women have taken pledge of ‘SWACCHTA ELAN’to ensure good sanitation in their communities. Villagers of Pratappur in Jharkhand decided to put an end to open…
When Latehar DC Abu Imran was informed about her plight, he began a search for her family members and connected with her son who came to Jharkhand with two others. They took her back to Maharashtra on Sunday. Kandulna added, “Similar names of places in two states caused unwarranted suffering to this poor woman. She faced problems as she is only fluent in speaking Marathi.” What’s in a name? For 60-year-old Mitha Bai Kumbh Phaley, it is a matter of eight months and 1,400 km away from home in a strange land. The Marathi woman was finally reunited with her…
Jharkhand unit of Private Schools and Children Welfare Association (PSCWA) on Monday wrote to Chief Minister Hemant Soren demanding some exemptions in Covid-19 guidelines for Class X and XII board exams which will commence in February next year. PSCWA Jharkhand president Alok Dubey said, “Board examinations of High School and Intermediate will be held on their scheduled time. Hence, state government should allow practical classes because future of students is at stake. When all the activities permitted now, classes for X and XII should be allowed maintaining all protocols.” Board exams are important juncture in students’ life and some educational…
It was pretty cold in several parts of the state, including Ranchi and Bokaro, on Tuesday with below-normal temperatures hovering between 8 degrees and 10 degrees. Capital Ranchi, which is in central Jharkhand, recorded a minimum temperature of 10.1°C for the second consecutive day on Tuesday. Ranchi’s reading was two notches below normal. In Bokaro steel city, the minimum temperature dipped to 8.6°C, seven notches below normal. Ramgarh and Gumla recorded similarly low readings. On Monday, apart from Bokaro, the two other districts – Ramgarh and Gumla – had recorded minimum temperatures of over 9°C. Daltonganj, the Palamau headquarters, and several other places, including Chaibasa in West Singhbhum…
The state has been unlocked after the awe of Corona. Gradually, the train of life has started to come back on track. In the capital, all the chirps are becoming normal, but even after this, only a number of tourists are reaching the forest safari and Nandan forest. While Jungle Safari and Nandanvan have been fully opened for tourists. According to the sources of jungle safari, it has become difficult to bear the cost of safari these days. Less than a hundred tourists are reaching Jungle Safari and Nandanvan daily. Jungle safari management says that right now children and those above 60 years of age are…
Oxford vaccinologists were exhilarated on Monday when drugmaker AstraZeneca, with whom they developed the shot, announced that it could be around 90% effective, citing data from late-stage trials It took Oxford University’s brightest minds decades of work to give them the expertise to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. In the end, it was a momentary error – and a dose of good fortune – that carried them over the line. The Oxford vaccinologists were exhilarated on Monday when drugmaker AstraZeneca, with whom they developed the shot, announced that it could be around 90% effective, citing data from late-stage trials. “It can…
Artem Shabanov, Bogdan Lednev, Denys Popov, Gerson Rodrigues, Mikkel Duelund, Mykyta Burda, Nazariy Rusyn, Oleksandr Andrievsky, Oleksandr Syrota, Oleksandr Tymchyk, Ruslan Neshcheret, Viktor Tsygankov, Volodymyr Kostervych (out), Serhiy Sydorchuk (doubt) Date/Time: Tuesday, November 24, 2020, 9pm CET/WAT (Barcelona & Nigeria), 8pm GMT (UK), 3pm ET, 12pm PT (USA), 1.30am IST (India, Wednesday) Venue: Olympic Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine Referee: Matej Jug (SVN) VAR: Sascha Stegemann (GER) How to watch on TV: TUDN (USA), BT Sport 3 (UK), Canal+ Sport 5 (Nigeria), SONY TEN 1 (India), Movistar Liga de Campeones (Spain), others How to stream: FuboTV (USA), BT Sport Live (UK), Movistar+ (Spain), DAZN (Canada), others Following a…
With the availability of Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma for the first Test in Australia becoming uncertain by the day, the Indian team management is contemplating retaining a player from the white-ball squads currently in Australia.TOI has learnt that Shreyas Iyer may be asked to stay back as reserve batsman for the Test series.The selectors, while announcing the squad, didn’t specifically mention a replacement for Virat Kohli, who will be back home on paternity leave after the first Test in Adelaide which starts on Dec 17. It was assumed that Rohit would be an automatic replacement for Kohli. But with uncertainty growing over…