Ranchi: The lawmakers from the ruling mahagathbandhan gathered at the banquet hall of a hotel in Ranchi on Friday evening to deliberate upon the state government’s achievements, shortfalls and challenges in its first year in office. Chief minister Hemant Soren and his cabinet colleagues sought the opinion of their lawmakers […]
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Jamshedpur: The East Singhbhum district administration carried out an anti-encroachment drive at Sakchi market here on Friday. Several vendors had illegally put up stalls on the footpath, leading to overcrowding and, in turn, resulting in violation of social distancing norms. A team led by ADM Nand Kishore Lal and officials […]
Jamshedpur: The traffic police have launched a fresh drive against unauthorized parking and violation of other traffic laws. In the past one week, traffic cops have issued over 100 challans daily for parking violations. Moreover, fines worth Rs 1.25 lakh have been levied per day on an average during the […]
Ranchi: In view of the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic, chief minister Hemant Soren on Thursday launched a personalised online learning platform called ‘learnytic’ for students studying in Class IX to Class XII. The app, launched during the award distribution ceremony among students and schools at Project Building, would contain amended learning […]
Ranchi: The state’s Covid casualty rate crept up to 0.89% as Jharkhand reported six deaths, 233 new and 208 recoveries reported on Thursday. As per government data, as many as 1,09,771 people have been infected by the virus till date and 1,06,868 have recovered from the infection, taking the recovery […]
Ranchi: The state government has slashed the cost of Covid-19 tests at private laboratories in Jharkhand, bringing the maximum price for an RT-PCR test down at Rs.800 and that for Rapid Antigen Test down to Rs.150. Notably, the state government had fixed RT-PCR rates twice since the outbreak of the […]
Ranchi: A private hospital here got a Bihar-based senior citizen — who was bed-ridden for more than a year following a knee replacement operation — back on his feet after performing a rare surgery at its recently launched centre of excellence in joint replacement. A relieved Shiv Gobind Pal was […]
Ranchi: JMM on Thursday accused Ranchi mayor Asha Lakra and deputy mayor Sanjiv Vijaywargia of blocking developmental work in many wards under Ranchi Municipal Corporation’s (RMC) jurisdiction on grounds of political vendetta. JMM general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya rallied seven ward councillors — all of them belonging to tribal and other […]
Jamshedpur: Acting on directives from the state health department, the East Singhbhum administration is working on the modalities of constituting a task force for distribution of any vaccine for Covid-19 that is approved by the Centre. Sources said Work is already on for the construction of a vaccine storage facility […]
Ranchi: Chief minister Hemant Soren on Thursday asked officers of the state health, medical education and family welfare department to modernise Jharkhand’s hospitals to ensure that they function round the clock. Reviewing the department’s works in Project Building, Soren also directed the department to make recruitments to end shortages of […]