Bhubaneswar, April 27 (IANS) The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has issued a notice to the Odisha Commissioner-cum-Secretary of the Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes Development, Minorities and Backward Classes Welfare Department, as well as to the Collector and Superintendent of Police of Mayurbhanj, seeking an Action Taken Report on the death of a tribal…
Ranchi: The Advocates Association, Jharkhand High Court, on Friday requested the Chief Justice to start virtual court practice in the light of the recent crisis in availability of fuel in the capital.Due to the scarcity of fuel and long jams in petrol pumps, the association has written a letter to High Court Chief Justice M.S….
Bokaro: A special POCSO court in Bokaro sentenced a 21-year-old man, Dhananjay Singh, to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for attempting to rape a 16-year-old girl in 2025. The court of Additional District Judge (ADJ-III) Devesh Kumar Tripathi found the accused guilty under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the POCSO…
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…
