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  • Gujarat ATS nets Dawood aide in Jamshedpur

    Working in coordination with Mango police, Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested Abdul Majid Kutti, a detailed aide of dreaded underworld don Dawood Ibrahim from an arms-checking level at Mango-Pardih Road, on Friday night.

    The police remained tight-lipped in regards to the arrest. They broke the information to the media at 3 pm immediately, solely after the dreaded legal was shifted to Ahmedabad.

    Kutti (58), a resident of Kerala, was wished by the Gujarat ATS since 1998. He has been accused of supplying an enormous variety of pistols, ammunition, and explosives to the members of Dawood’s gang throughout that interval.

    The fugitive, underneath an assumed identify – Kamal, had been residing together with his household at a rented duplex in Sahara City, a residential colony in Mango, for over one-and-a-half yr.

    OC, Mango thana, Vinay Kumar confirmed the information of Dawood’s henchman Abdul Majid Kutti being arrested from Mango on Friday late night.

    A staff of Gujarat ATS had the details about Kutti’s whereabouts in Mango, the staff in cooperation with Mango police had laid a entice within the guise of arms checking. Kutti was strolling down the Mango-Pardih Road and was ultimately arrested on the checking level close to the Mango thana at about 8 pm on Friday. He was wished by the Gujarat police for over 20 years,” mentioned Kumar whereas speaking to The Telegraph Online.

    He additional added that Kutti after being arrested had been saved on the Mango thana until Saturday evening. On Sunday, Gujarat ATS whisked him away on transit remand to Ahmedabad.

    A police official posted at Mango thana maintained that they’d been tight-lipped about Kutti’s arrest due to safety causes. He mentioned that they’d disclosed the matter on Sunday afternoon solely after Gujarat ATS reached Ahmedabad.

    The members of the family of Kutti weren’t conscious of his arrest until Saturday night.

    “We do not know why the police arrested Kutti. We came to know about it on Saturday evening only,” mentioned a girl, (in all probability Kutti’s spouse), whereas answering to newsmen from her duplex.

  • Steel city to host online district-level chess events

    The East Singhbhum District Chess Association is set to conduct two online district-level events on December 29 and 30.

    While the women’s championship will be held on Tuesday,the  district open event is scheduled for Thursday.

    District association general secretary Narendra Kumar Tiwary said trophies and certificates will be handed over to the top 10 finishers in each of the two championships.

    We are organising the events online because of the pandemic where social distancing has to be maintained,” Tiwary said.

    Entry fee for each event has been fixed at Rs 150. Players from East Singhbhum are only eligible to participate in the championships. 

    Participants can send their entries to Chandan Kumar Prasad, chief arbiter for the women’s event and Vishal Kumar Minz, chief arbiter for the open category championship.

    Giving details about the mode and system of the tournaments, Prasad, a FIDE-accredited arbiter, said each contestant would be given 15 minutes and five seconds (Li- Chess System and Chess.com). 

    “We had adopted this mode and system in earlier district tournaments for different age categories,” he added.

    Prasad said that the tournament will go on from 1 pm to 6 pm, adding that the events would provide ample opportunity to participants to showcase their skill. 

    “The best way to keep our chess enthusiasts engaged is by conducting online events,” he said.

    In November, the association had conducted online chess events for under seven and under nine age groups.

    East Singhbhum has several promising chess players who have won medals in state and national level championship. 

    The steel city has a full- fledged training centre run by Tata Steel sports win at JRD Tata Sports Complex. Some former players and arbiters also run private coaching classes across Jamshedpur.

  • Olympics archery mentor hopeful of India medal in mixed team event

    India’s archery medal drought in Olympic Games may well, end thanks to the inclusion of a mixed team event in the competition.

    Archery mentor Dharmendra Tiwary, who was the coach of the Indian’s men’s squad in the Rio Olympics, is optimistic that Indian archers stand a chance to clinch a medal in the mixed team event (one archer of each gender).

    “It is good that a mixed team event has been included in next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, for the first time. The Indian mixed teams have won medals in World Cups on more than one occasion, and I am optimistic that they can come up with a similar show in the Olympics,” he said.

    Tiwary was also hopeful of a medal win in the team event. The women’s team comprising Deepika Kumari. Laishram Bombayala Devi and Lakshmi Rani Majhi made it to the quarter-finals in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

    Tiwary said medals in the individual category depends on the form of archers on a given day.

    The highly experienced coach, who was bestowed with the Dronacharya award (lifetime category) earlier this year, added a psychologist was needed for the Indian archers to overcome nerves in big-ticket competitions. “But he/she (psychologist) should have adequate knowledge about the game and have a fair bit of understanding of an archer’s needs on the mental front. He/sheshould be able to understand the amount of pressure an archer is undergoing and try to calm it down. Countries like Korea and the US have psychologists as support staff,” Tiwary said.

    The head coach of the Jamshedpur-based elite Tata Archery Academy (TAA)  said crowd pressure has a negative effect on the psyche of Indian archers when they line up to shoot in top-level competitions. “Unlike India, spectators fill the galleries on both sides of the shooting range in international competitions, including Olympics. Our archers have never competed in front of a large presence of spectators,” the 47-year-old explained.

  • Jharkhand cracks down on crime

    Jharkhand DGP M.V. Rao has shared his personal number in the social media for people to inform him directly about organised criminal gangs, indicating the state police’s strong resolve to launch intensive operations against crime.

    The 1987 batch IPS officer, who took over as the DGP earlier this year, has in a tweet posted separately in Hindi and English on Wednesday morning, said, “Intensive and targeted operations against the organised criminal gangs are yielding desired results. I seek the public participation in Jharkhand police endeavours in creating a safer environment. Please share information on criminals. My contact number 09431106363.”

    Sources in the state CID revealed that the top brass of the police department had discussed a multi-pronged intensive operation against the 40-odd criminal gangs, some of whose leaders operate from behind the bars, in different districts of the state.

    The development follows recent incidents of carnage at Latehar by jailed gangster Sujit Sinha’s men and Maoist splinter outfit Peoples’ Liberation Front of India (PLFI).

    “With rebels joining hands with criminals we wanted to redo our strategy to put an end to criminal gangs. Primarily, the criminal gangs in Jharkhand are involved in extorting money from contractors and fixing tenders. Once we have culled out information about criminal gangs, we will have a multi-pronged strategy against them,” the senior CID official added.

    There are 40 criminal gangs, which are active in the 24 districts of the state. Out of them, most of the groups are in the industrial hub of Jamshedpur (eight) and capital Ranchi (eight).

  • Season’s coldest day for Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Daltonganj

    The biting cold across Jharkhand is likely to stay for the next three days with IMD’s Ranchi Meteorological Centre revealing on Monday afternoon that minimum readings in most parts of the state will remain three to four notches below normal.

    Jamshedpur recorded its lowest minimum temperature this season at 7.6°C against 8.7°C on Sunday. Several other parts of the Kolhan region, including Chaibasa in West Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan also witnessed a new low of around 7°C.

    Ranchi continued to record 7.2 °C for the second consecutive day on Monday, while in Kanke on the outskirts of the state capital, the Celsius nosedived to 5.7°C.

    Daltonganj and Bokaro too experienced the season’s coldest day with minimum readings of 6.1 °C and 6.2 °C respectively.

    The north-eastern parts of the state, including Pakur and Sahebganj, were relatively warmer as the minimum hovered around 9°C.

    The Regional Meteorological Centre in Calcutta said conditions were favourable for a fresh Celsius plunge. “The entire state is in the grip of the bitter cold north-westerly winds, which is resulting in temperature drops. Minimum readings are expected to slide by another degree or so in hilly areas,” said a duty officer, adding that the weather would also remain dry for the next five days.

    Residents are dealing with the extreme temperatures in their own way. “For the last two days, I have stopped venturing out of my house after sunset because the chill is so intense. I have delayed my morning walk by an hour or so,” said Amritesh Singh, a resident of Sonari.

  • Tata Steel excels in LGBT+ inclusion

    Global steel behemoth Tata Steel, which has its largest plant at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, has been named a top employer for LGBT+ inclusion by India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI), the country’s first comprehensive benchmarking study to measure and enable efforts for the community’s inclusion.

    Tata Steel vice-president (designate), human resource management, Atrayee S. Sanyal, said in a media communiqué released on Thursday afternoon: “At Tata Steel we believe a diverse and inclusive environment enables employees to express themselves openly thereby adding to the perspectives and collective wisdom of the organisation. We are proud to feature amongst the IWEI 2020 top employers for LGBT+ inclusion. This recognition reaffirms our commitment to foster a culture to actively promote LGBTQ+ empowerment and build a benchmark workplace.”

    The IWEI ranking is considered the definitive list showcasing the best employers in India for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees . This is the inaugural IWEI top employers’ list, featuring 52 organisations that have been recognised as ‘bronze’, ‘silver’ or ‘gold’ depending on their final score. Organisations participating in this index make it clear that they support equality for LGBT+ people at work,” the communiqué added. Incidentally, Tata Steel rolled out a new HR policy last year that enables colleagues from the LGBTQ+ community to avail all benefits permissible under the law for their partners (people of same-sex living together) like coverage for child-care leave, newborn parent leave, medical benefits, joint house points, employee assistance programs, domestic travel policy, health check-ups, transfer and relocation benefits, honeymoon package and others.

  • Former athlete to return Arjuna award to protest farm laws

    Former athlete Bagicha Singh has joined the list of nationally feted sportspersons who have decided to return their awards in protest against the government not acceding to the demands of protesting farmers.

    Singh, an Arjuna awardee who recently retired as senior manager of the Tata Steel sports wing in Jamshedpur, said he was anguished at the plight of farmers in Punjab and that the Narendra Modi government had brought in an anti-farmer law which was not going to benefit anyone.

    “The government is helping corporates and leaving farmers to their own fate. I am a son of a farmer and I am very angry over the new laws which are in utter disregard to the farmers. Farmers in Punjab are not even getting the required price of their produce. I will return my Arjuna Award (won in 1987) in protest against the government’s new farm laws,” said Singh, Singh, who retired from service on June 30, and now lives with his family in Chandigarh.

    Singh, who lived in Jamshedpur for 38 years and was the coach of the Tata Steel Athletics Training Centre, was supposed to join the farmers march to Delhi. “I could not join the march because of a back problem. Several other national awardees in Punjab have also decided to return their honours,” he said over telephone from Chandigarh.

    According to him, the national awardees were stopped by security forces when they went to return the honour to President Ram Nath Kovind. “I would join the group (of national awardees) the next time they go to return their award,” Singh, a fine athlete of his time, added.

  • Dalma elephants return early from Bengal

    A herd of 35 elephants, which had migrated from Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary to Bengal forests around five months back and was supposed to stay put in the neighbouring state till February next year, have come back early on Sunday.

    The herd, including tuskers and calves, slipped into the sprawling 192 sq km sanctuary, 30 km from Jamshedpur, in the wee hours of Sunday and is presently stationed inside a jungle. The herd seems to have returned early in search of food.

    A forester said the elephants have taken a circuitous route to Dalma Sanctuary. The herd first stayed at Kharsawan for some days before heading to Saraikela and then to Chandil before coming home. “The elephants usually stick to their migratory corridor but the trend has changed this time,” he said.

    Dalma range officer (West) Dinesh Chandra confirmed the early homecoming of the elephants. “Dalma jumbos usually leave for the jungles of West Medinipur and Bankura in Bengal in August-September and are back in January-February. The jumbos are welcome home,” he added.

    Besides coming home early, the elephants had also migrated to Bengal about a month earlier (in July). “The jumbos generally catch the corridor to Dalma after harvesting season ends in Bengal. However, elephants are moody animals and move as per their whims and fancies. More elephants should be back in the days to come,” another forester said.

  • Archery association to open its doors again

    In a boost to archers who missed action in view of the pandemic, the Jharkhand Archery Association is set to resume its operations in February 2021, with already kicking off the required spadework. The institute has earmarked Jamshedpur, Bokaro and Ranchi to hold competitions among the sub-junior, junior and senior categories.

    The authority discussed the resumption of events and other issues in a meeting chaired bhai Association President and Union tribal affairs minister Arjun Munda at JRD Tata Sports Complex earlier this week. Munda has also held the role of the president of Archery Association of India (AAI), apart from being the state chief minister.

    Seraikela-Kharsawan District Archery Association secretary Suman Chandra Mohanty, who was present at the meeting, said they were seriously looking to resume competitions from February next year.

    “We are awaiting the state government’s Covid-related guidelines for resuming our programmes. We are told that the government would allow an assembly of 200, including players and officials, for a competition. The guidelines will be announced soon,” Mohanty said.

    Keeping in mind the criteria related to the guidelines, the authorities have decided to hold competitions for sub-junior, junior and senior separately at different venues, Mohanty, who is also the  joint secretary of AAI, said.

    “We have earmarked Jamshedpur, Bokaro and Ranchi for the state level championships. These venues would separately play host to the three competitions,” he explained.

    Earlier, the state championships involving sub-junior, junior and senior sections were held at a single venue and on the same dates.  

    The official said that discussions regarding the spread of the sport across Jharkhand and channelising the skills of players were also held in the meeting.

    “Presently, archery is conducted in 15 districts but we intend to take the sport to rest of the nine districts, including Latehar,” he said.

    Separate officials will be appointed at the districts and data would be prepared of all the archers to give shape to the endeavour of the state archery outfit.

    Archers have found themselves deprived of activity ever since the activities were withheld due to the pandemic in March, and the association says it is important to bring them into action.

    “A sizable section of our archers are out of action for months now. In archery or any other sport, practice is key. By conducting state competitions the archers will find ample opportunity to try and fit into their groove once again,” an official of the Jharkhand Archery Association said.

    “The events will also pep up their confidence level and prepare them for other competitions to be conducted next year. The pandemic has already robbed our archers of a platform to showcase their talent. Covid has had a heavy blow on them,” the official, who wished to be anonymous, said.

  • Two brothers arrested for theft

    A major breakthrough came for the Jamshedpur Police, on Wednesday, for a complicated theft case involving close family members. The suspected duo – Abhishek Chaudhury and Vishal Chaudhury have been arrested, after the police recovered cash (Rs 10,15,000) and gold ornaments from the residence of Vishal’s girlfriend, in Jugsalai.

    The brothers in their early twenties, had been arrested after the police had registered an FIR on the basis of a case lodged by Devendra Chaudhury, at the Jugsalai Police Station on November 28, against his brother Surendra Chaudhury and his family.

    Sharing the details, senior superintendent of police, M Tamil Vanan said Chaudhury, in his complaint, had maintained that cash worth Rs 12 lakhs and gold ornaments had gone missing from his Jugsalai residence, when he was out of town for some work. However, the lock of his residence was intact even after the theft.

    As there was no outsider in the house, Devendra suspected his brother Surendra Chaudhury, his wife and children to have committed the theft. On getting the FIR we set up a special team to get the case investigated,” Vanan said.

    “Led by the deputy superintendent of police (law and order) Alok Ranjan, the team first interrogated Surendra Chaudhury and his wife, but failed to get any clue. Subsequently the team interrogated Surendra’s two sons,” he added.