Abhishek Angad

For the last several days, many of these migrants have been putting out their contact numbers and addresses on social media in a desperate attempt to seek food and other basic necessities.

We have ordered supplies. We have made arrangements and at maximum we can deal with 2,000 COVID-19 patients at a time, says Devendra Kumar Tiwari.

While his journey back home was arduous — a six-hour train ride to Bilaspur, a night at the railway station, and finally an hour-long bus ride to his village — he is now worried about having to make ends meet for his family of six.

People in Jharkhand could be sitting on a "time bomb", said Dr Mohammad Azad, Secretary of the Jharkhand Chapter of the Association of Surgeons of India.

Bokaro Deputy Commissioner Mukesh Kumar told The Indian Express that the administration will provide the list of vendors to be enrolled on the Swiggy platform to cover around 1 lakh families in urban areas. The system is expected to go online on Friday.

An official in Ranchi said about 3,000-4,000 people reached the city on an average every day over the past week on the Alappuzha-Dhanbad Express.

Jharkhand government on Monday passed a resolution against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population of Register (NPR).

India’s unorganised workers make up 82.7 per cent or 39.14 crores of the total 47.41 crore estimated employed persons, according to last NSSO Employment and Unemployment Survey, 2011-12.

The police termed the man, identified as Roshan Horo, as “innocent” and have registered a case against security personnel who fired at him.

The sub-committee comprising three members will define the term ‘Jharkhandi’, based on which a local employment policy will be enacted.

The 1987-batch IPS officer, who holds additional charge of D-G, Fire Services and Home Guard, took over from former DGP Kamal Nayan Choubey after his nine-month stint at the helm.

Kamal Nayan Choubey's tenure was pockmarked by incidents which called into question the state's law and order situation. 

The programme, currently being run on a pilot basis, will gather emission data from various industries in the state and rate the firms according to their compliance.

The Hemant Soren government denies Ghasi, a Dalit, died of lack of food. Having made hunger deaths one of its main planks in the recent Assembly elections, the ruling JMM now says there have been no such casualties in the state in the past five years.

Special Judge Taufiqul Hasan conducted the trial in four working days, sometimes holding court till late in the evening, and passed the sentence on March 3.

Jharkhand Police IG Naveen Singh, who is monitoring the investigation, said, “In the video, there is limited information. We will collect information of the organiser and who all came. We have started the investigation.”

The issue of these deaths had also ben taken up by several Congress leaders, including Jharkhand Congress In-Charge RPN Singh and then JPCC President Ajoy Kumar.

Calling it a “revolutionary” and “pro-people” Budget, Chief Minister Soren said it focuses on health, unemployment and farmers, among others, and will help pave the way for a new journey.

It was a sentiment echoed by Chief Minister Hemant Soren. Taking to Twitter, Soren wrote that “your efforts to show that health facilities in the state are capable is praiseworthy”.