Students were encouraged to use the ECINET app to complete and submit Form 6 for inclusion in electoral rolls Ranchi: Election Commission’s voter awareness campaign reached 13,350 students across 20 educational institutions in Ranchi in Aug, as officials intensified efforts to enrol first-time voters.The camps, held from Aug 8 to 27, targeted students who will…
Hospitals have been directed to keep isolation wards, life-saving drugs, equipment and referral facilities ready Ramgarh: The health department has stepped up preparations amid concerns over seasonal influenza and H1N1 cases. Following directions from Ramgarh deputy commissioner, civil surgeon Dr Anil Kumar and the epidemiology team issued guidelines to all health facilities.Medical officers have been…
Home guard Manoj Kumar Sinha Hazaribag: Ango police station in-charge Janu Kumar has been accused of assaulting home guard Manoj Kumar Sinha on Sunday night.Sinha, who is posted at Daru circle, filed a complaint with Vishnugarh SDPO Faizan Ahmed.According to Sinha, a resident of Digwar, he had gone to meet his friend Munna Das, who…
Jamshedpur: A 63-year-old woman was allegedly held hostage and robbed by three persons, including a woman posing as a census worker, at Shri Krishna Udyan on Road No. 15 in Jawaharnagar under Mango police station limits on Monday.According to the complaint, Leelawati Amma was alone in her flat when a woman knocked and introduced herself…
Ranchi: A retired bureaucrat in Jharkhand govt was allegedly found hanging in a flat in the city’s Morabadi area under Lalpur police station limits on Sunday.Sunil Kumar Singh (61), who retired as the Ranchi deputy development commissioner last year, was a resident of Patna in Bihar. He had been living alone at his apartment near…
Dumka: Eight persons were sentenced to life imprisonment after a lower court in Deoghar found them guilty of killing a man and his driver under Jasidih police station limits in 2013. The court of Additional Sessions Judge-III Rajendra Kumar Sinha also imposed a fine of Rs 22,000 on each convict, with an additional three months…
The division bench directed that the petition be heard by the same court Ranchi: Jharkhand high court on Monday transferred to a single judge a petition challenging state govt’s August 18 notification cancelling examinations and recruitment processes conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission and Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission.The petition, filed by Aditya Bhaskar and…
State govt has prepared a draft law proposing a rational, progressive and value-based fee structure, with a reasonable ceiling on court fees Ranchi: State govt has initiated steps to replace the Court Fees Act, 1870, with a state-specific law, citing several legal and practical limitations in the colonial-era legislation.Sources said the existing Act lacks a…
Jamshedpur: East Singhbhum police have intensified the hunt for Maoists by putting up posters with photographs and details of six wanted extremists, including CPI (Maoist) regional committee member Asim Mandal alias Akash, who carries a Rs 1-crore bounty.The posters were pasted on Sunday at markets, intersections, railway stations, bus stands and other prominent locations in…
Amardeep Kumar’s first international gold came at the Asian Junior Throwball Championship in Malaysia in 2015 Ranchi: By day, 29-year-old Amardeep Kumar drives passengers across the state in his cab. When he is not behind the wheel, he helps his family sell vegetables at Argora Chowk in Ranchi. But beneath the everyday struggle lies the…
