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…
Priya Palbabu with her parents Bokaro: Priya Palbabu, who became the joint state topper in CBSE Class 12 Commerce, resorted to digital detox to focus on her studies. A student of DPS Bokaro, her move eventually paid off as she secured 99.4% in the examination, whose results on Wednesday.“I uninstalled every social media app from…
Chatra: Police have seized around 2.28 kg of opium worth around Rs 10 lakh and arrested one person during a special operation on Wednesday.The arrested accused has been identified as Vikas Kumar, a resident of Lipda village under Sadar police station limits, police said.Chatra SP Animesh Naithany said, “Acting on inputs that a consignment of…
Histopathology lab in Ranchi Ranchi: Semi automatic pathology machines across Jharkhand’s hospitals will soon be replaced with fully automatic ones, officials of the state health department said.Ajoy Kumar Singh, additional chief secretary of the department, has directed pathology testing equipment makers Meril to install fully automatic machines in all hospitals, including community health centres (CHCs)…
Bokaro: Factories operating in the JIADA industrial area at Balidih here are gradually turning the region into a hub of toxic smoke and ash, locals alleged. They accused steel and sponge iron units of damaging agriculture, contaminating water sources and adversely affecting public health.Residents of Barudih, Panjudih, Mahto Tola, Ghoda Balidih, Manjhladih and Kodadih claimed…
Daltonganj: Two persons, including a 17-year-old boy, were killed and two others were injured after tree branches fell on them during a storm which swept through Palamu district late on Wednesday.Kamdeo Chandravanshi, 40, a resident of Bihar, was killed when a branch from a peepal tree fell on him Marghatia road under Haidernagar police station,…
Ranchi: The Jharkhand govt on Thursday launched a website to simplify the process of legalising unauthorised residential buildings across urban areas of the state so as to implement the Jharkhand Unauthorised Constructed Building Regularisation Rules, 2026.The portal, https://jhbpams.jharkhand.gov.in, aims at simplifying the approval process for residents, who built homes in violation of municipal norms, often…
Hazaribag: Three drug peddlers, including a woman, were arrested and 169 gm of brown sugar confiscated from a forested area under Pelawal outpost limits on Thursday, police said.Acting on a tip-off, a team led by additional superintendent of police (ASP) Amit Kumar conducted a raid in the Bonga Road forest area and arrested two accused,…
