Dumka: The forest department has ordered a probe in connection with a fire at its timber dump yard behind Godda College which destroyed thousands of logs on Monday evening, official said.Sources said that nearly 10,000 logs were stored at the site and more than half were destroyed. Initial estimates indicated loss worth several lakhs.Godda divisional…
Ranchi: State chief electoral officer (CEO) K Ravi Kumar on Monday reviewed the booth level officer (BLO) registers and sketch maps (Nazri Naksha) of randomly selected polling stations in Jamshedpur (East) and Jamshedpur (West) Assembly constituencies under East Singhbhum district.Kumar also visited some households and cross-verified the facts recorded by the BLOs in the registers…
Ranchi: For 38-year-old Sanchi Singh, a good night’s rest now comes from chemical dependency. Reliant on melatonin supplements to catch even a few hours of shut-eye, Singh’s search for answers led her to a psychiatrist’s chamber, where she found that her newly developed insomnia was a direct fallout of excessive screen time, particularly in the…
A woman’s partially burned body was discovered in her Dhanbad home after her brother claimed neighbours refused help, leading him to attempt cremation in the bathroom. DHANBAD: In a disturbing incident under the Govindpur police station limits, a woman’s half-burnt body was recovered from her house, with her brother claiming he attempted to cremate the…
Ranchi: The Ranchi district administration on Monday issued notices to 20 private schools that flouted rules under the Jharkhand Education Tribunal (Amendment) Act-2017 like imposing arbitrary fee hike on the parents of children enrolled in their educational institutions and selling books on their respective campuses, a statemnet issued by the administration read.Taking cognizance of increasing…
Ranchi: The Jharkhand high court on Monday directed the state govt to form a committee for establishing open correctional institutions (OCIs) in the state. Following a Supreme Court directive, the HC ordered the home secretary to constitute a three-member committee to look into the matter and furnish a report thereof.A division bench of Chief Justice…
Ranchi: The Jharkhand high court on Monday was informed by the state govt that the name of the candidate to be appointed as Lokayukta will be sent for final affirmation to the office of the governor within a week from Monday.A division bench of Chief Justice M S Sonak and Justice Rajesh Shankar were hearing…
Jamshedpur: Two men were arrested on NH-33 for allegedly smuggling 50 kg of marijuana in a car on Sunday late evening, East Singhbhum district police said on Monday. The contraband, packed in 25 packets of 2 kg each, were being smuggled into Bihar from Odisha.SP (Rural) Rishabha Garg, speaking to the media on Monday, said…
Ranchi: A total of 166 persons, including 159 aspirants of the Jharkhand Excise Constable Competitive Examination 2023 and members of a solver gang, were sent to judicial custody on Monday. They were arrested from an under-construction nursing home in Rargaon, under Tamar police station limits on the outskirts of Ranchi, just hours before the scheduled…
Ranchi/Dhanbad: The 135th birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar was celebrated with great enthusiasm and reverence across Jharkhand. In Ranchi, governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar and chief minister Hemant Soren offered floral tributes by garlanding Ambedkar’s statue in Doranda.Speaking on the occasion, Hemant said that the day marks a moment of pride for India. “Ambedkar’s…
