Health Minister reaches Covid ward at Sadar Hospital, interacts with patients

Ranchi: After numerous complaints regarding mismanagement prevailing in Covid hospitals in the capital Health Minister Banna Gupta on Tuesday visited the Sadar Hospital.

The Minister wore a PPE Kit and went in the Covid ward where he interacted…

Health Secretary directs to cremate Covid bodies within 24 hours, 52 bodies cremated in Ranchi in a day

Ranchi: Health Secretary KK Soan has directed all the DCs of the state to make sure that people dying due to Coronavirus are cremated within 24 hours.

He said that at no cost in the name of pendinh reports the bodies should be kept waiting…

Founder member of JMM Simon Marandi passes away in Kolkata, CM and others mourn demise

Pakur/Ranchi: Founding member of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and former minister Simon Marandi passed away in a private hospital in Kolkata.

For the last one month he was admitted at the Rabindra Nath Tagore Hospital in Kolkata where he was battling…

CM asks voters to stay away from money power of opposition

Deoghar: Chief Minister Hemant Soren addressed another election meeting in Balwa Arjunpur Maidan under Margomunda block of this district while campaigning for JMM candidate Hafizul Hasan for the bypolls on Madhupur seat voting for which will be held…

Curfew clamped, internet suspended in Rajasthan town after communal clash

Jaipur (IANS) Curfew was clamped and internet services suspended in Chhabra town of Rajasthan's Baran district on Sunday as communal clashes broke out, leaving several shops and vehicles set on fire, while other shops were looted, police said.

Sensex down 1,100 points amid rising Covid cases

Mumbai (IANS) The key Indian equity indices traded deep in the red on Monday morning with the BSE Sensex dropping around 1,100 points amid resurgent Covid cases across the country and concerns of localised lockdowns.

An across-the-board selloff…

Employment-starved urban Bengal might look for alternative

Kolkata (IANS) Soumen Modnal owns a tea-stall in the market outside Birlapur Jute mill near Budge Budge in South 24 Parganas - nearly 45 kilomteres from Kolkata. Once he was a permanent worker in the jute mill but, now as the mill is closed for the…

India set to get third vaccine as expert panel clears Sputnik

New Delhi (IANS) A government expert panel has given its nod to emergency use authorisation of Russian-made Covid vaccine, Sputnik-V, in India, Union Health Ministry sources said.

After the Drug Controller General of India gives assent to the…

Govt to frame new electricity policy

New Delhi (IANS) The Power Ministry has set up an expert panel to prepare the Draft National Electricity Policy 2021.

The Central government, from time to time, in consultation with states, reviews and revises the National Electricity Policy…

Rahul Gandhi to campaign in WB from April 14

New Delhi (IANS) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will begin campaigning in West Bengal from April 14 where he will address the rallies in Goalpokhar and Matigara-Naxalbari.

The former Congress president will start the campaign after four phases…