Bokaro: Deputy commissioner Ajay Nath Jha inspected the Observation Home-cum-Place of Safety on Thursday after 18 juvenile inmates reported flu-like symptoms in the past 48 hours.Jha said out of 43 juveniles living in the facility, 16 were admitted to hospital for treatment. “Of these, 15 juveniles recovered and were discharged after being declared medically fit,…
Daltonganj: A 26-year-old man from Palamu district was arrested from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly strangling a realtor to death with four others in April this year. The accused, identified as Prashant Tiwary, is a resident of Barkagaon village under Sadar police station limits.He was brought to Daltonganj on a transit permit and remanded…
Daltonganj: A 26-year-old man from Palamu district was arrested from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly strangling a realtor to death with four others in April this year. The accused, identified as Prashant Tiwary, is a resident of Barkagaon village under Sadar police station limits.He was brought to Daltonganj on a transit permit and remanded…
Hazaribag: Padma Shri awardee Bulu Imam has threatened to return the honour unless the Union govt apologises within a week for the alleged treatment of students protesting at Jantar Mantar on July 20.“The govt must apologise for what happened to the students at Jantar Mantar on July 20. If it does not do so within…
Ranchi: Jharkhand has topped the country in the month-long special drive held from June 15 to register pregnant women and lactating mothers for financial support under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY). The state registered 46,955 beneficiaries against the Union women and child development ministry’s target of 24,203, achieving 194% of its target.Chhattisgarh ranked…
Hazaribag: A 45-year-old excavator operator from Hazaribag district was among those killed in the tunnel collapse at the under-construction Teesta Stage-VI Hydroelectric Project of NHPC in Sikkim’s Namchi district.Jageshwar Thakur, a resident of Tilaiya Basti under Kolhuakala panchayat in Barhi block, was identified on Thursday by his elder son, Rahul Sharma, who had travelled to…
Daltonganj: At least four Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel, including havildar Munni Lal, had a miraculous escape after a huge portion of the mess roof ceiling collapsed at Daltonganj railway station under the Dhanbad division of East Central Railway around 10.30 pm on Tuesday night, sources said.The mess, used by GRP personnel for meals, had…
Jamshedpur: A man was trampled to death by a herd of four elephants in West Singhbhum district in the early hours of Wednesday. The herd, which went on a rampage across four villages in Jagannathpur block, also damaged houses and standing crops, forest officials said.The deceased was identified as Chandramohan Sinku, 35, a resident of…
Hazaribag: Chatra police have arrested three key accused persons who had been absconding for nearly three years in the 2023 murder of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawan Shivkumar Yadav, 35, allegedly beaten to death over a dispute involving two decimals of land.Addressing a news conference on Wednesday evening, Chatra SDPO Sunny Vardhan said Somar Bhuiyan…
Ramgarh: Security was tightened at the Ramgarh civil court after authorities received a letter warning of a bomb attack on the court premises.The letter, written in Bengali and sent by a person from West Bengal, claimed that some people were hatching a “serious secret plan” to attack the court with a bomb. The sender also…
