The facility aims to detect severe genetic diseases in unborn babies during pregnancy and support families with counselling and informed reproductive choices. Ranchi: The Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) conducted only 26 prenatal tests in the past year, though its genetics and genomics department has been offering free prenatal diagnosis for disorders like thalassemia…
The park is proposed to be developed over 35 acres adjacent to Dhurwa dam, officials said Kolkata: State govt is mulling to build a theme park in the city to honour the legacy of former chief minister Shibu Soren. The foundation stone for the sprawling park is likely to be laid by CM Hemant Soren…
CEO K Ravi Kumar chairs the meeting on Friday Ranchi: With Jharkhand’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls entering the crucial claims and objections stage, chief electoral officer (CEO) K Ravi Kumar on Friday directed election officials to verify applications impartially and within the stipulated timeframe.The month-long process will begin after publication of the…
Bokaro: Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) chairperson and managing director Ashok Kumar Panda on Thursday paid a courtesy visit to chief minister Hemant Soren at his residential office on Kanke Road in Ranchi.The meeting marked Panda’s first formal interaction with Hemant after taking charge as CMD of the country’s largest state-owned steel producer on…
Ranchi: Jharkhand high court on Friday directed the state govt, Ranchi Municipal Corporation and Sadar Hospital to file replies over a petition by shopkeepers at Albert Ekka Chowk here. The petitioners, led by Ranjeet Kumar, said the corporation had allotted them the shops. However, since 2012, the corporation has declared around 25 shops as encroachments…
Ranchi: Three more persons would be summoned on August 6 for questioning in the liquor scam case in the state, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Friday.Notices would be sent to former managing director of Chhattisgarh’s excise department Arunpati Tripathi, businessman Shyam ji Sharan, and Nexgen Solutions Limited chief executive officer Arun Kumar Singh, the…
Bokaro: A physiotherapist associated with the Sadar Hospital, Bokaro, on contract under the National Health Mission for the past 12 years was found hanging inside the physiotherapy room late Thursday night, police said.Virendra Kumar Mahto, 42, a resident of Sector-1/C, reported for duty at 9 am, treated patients till 3 pm, left and returned around…
Jamshedpur: A preliminary investigation into Thursday’s explosion at Gloria Engineering in Adityapur industrial area, Seraikela-Kharsawan, that killed machine operator Murli Patro, 30, and injured five workers, has found that a baking oven exploded while in operation.“The findings of the detailed inquiry will help to establish the exact cause of the explosion. The statements of the…
The tribunal gave the Sahibganj DC four weeks to submit mining records and details of steps taken by the district task force New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal’s eastern zone bench has questioned the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board’s handling of an inspection into alleged illegal stone mining in Sahibganj, saying its affidavit appeared aimed…
L Khiangte has been asked to appear for questioning again on Monday Ranchi: CID on Friday questioned former JPSC chairperson L Khiangte for around eight hours in connection with its ongoing probe into alleged irregularities in examinations conducted by the commission.This was the third day the former chairperson was questioned. Sources said Khiangte has been…
