Hazaribag: The ministry of micro, small & medium enterprises, Govt of India, organised an entrepreneur awareness & special vendor development programme with the PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry at Nagar Bhawan, Hazaribag, on Thursday. The event focused on ministry initiatives, including the National SC-ST Hub Scheme, and on helping central ministries, departments and CPSEs…
Bokaro: Three men were arrested on Friday for allegedly robbing an elderly couple at their residence-cum-shop in Giridih. The accused were identified as Guddu Kumar Laheri of Koderma, and Binod Kumar Sao and Nandkishore Ravidas of Giridih.Police recovered Rs 11,100, a motorcycle used in the crime and two mobile phones from them. Khori Mahua SDPO…
Ranchi: State disaster management, food and civil supplies minister Irfan Ansari on Friday wrote a letter to chief minister Hemant Soren urging him to order deployment of additional security forces at petrol pumps, mainly in sensitive areas in the wake of sudden surge of customers at fuel bunks.He said that since last few days pumps…
Ranchi: Door-to-door house-listing, part of the first phase of Census 2027 in Jharkhand, will formally commence from Saturday as enumerators will hit the ground for physical verification process.The self-enumeration process, which began on May 1, and introduced for the first time, ended after midnight Friday. The house-listing work will be on till June 14 during…
Ranchi: Three men were arrested with body parts of monitor lizards at a city a hotel, forest officials here said on Friday. The accused Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, 64, his son Avinash Anand,32, and Arun Ram, 34, were arrested late on Thursday based on a tip-off from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB).They have been booked…
Koderma: Koderma witnessed a heart-warming event on Friday as SP Kumar Shivashish handed over 101 recovered mobile phones to their rightful owners. The phones, lost by common citizens over time, were traced under the district-wide initiative “Vishwas.”The SP said, “The recovery was made possible through the diligent efforts of the Koderma Technical Cell.” Using advanced…
Ranchi: In a major push towards public health and environmental safety, state development commissioner Ajoy Kumar Singh has directed officials to ensure that all upcoming waste processing plants are set up at a safe distance from residential areas, hospitals and water supply sources so that citizens are not adversely affected.Chairing the maiden meeting of the…
Ranchi/Jamshedpur: After the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday announced that the NEET re-examination will be held on June 21, students and coaching institutes have once again begun preparing for another intense round of the country’s premier medical entrance test. The original exam, conducted on May 3, was cancelled following allegations of a paper leak.Students…
Gumla: Three inmates of the Gumla Observation Home escaped after scaling the boundary wall early Friday morning. Police said two of the inmates are from Lohardaga district, while the third is from Ghaghra police station area of Gumla. The facility is located at Silam, around 4 km from Gumla town.In Sept, 2025, too, two inmates…
Ranchi: Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash on Friday shot a letter to chief minister Hemant Soren, seeking urgent intervention in the Trikut ropeway accident case and raising concerns over delays in investigation and alleged lapses in fixing accountabilities.In his letter, a copy of which is with TOI, Prakash flagged that even four years after the…
