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Voters’ awareness by Vikas Bharti Bishunpur

Vikas Bharti Bishunpur will start voters’ awareness mission with its associate organisations during the coming parliamentary election. It will start on March 23 to mark shaheed diwas of Martyr Bhagat Singh. The programme will be organised with Sankalp Sabha to be held in 2,000 panchayats of Jharkhand. The main issue will be addressed as 100 per cent voting to save democracy. Vote for Nation and don’t be sold and don’t let to be sold. The meeting with Yuva Vikas Vahini held on Tuesday presided by Vikas Bharti  Bishnpur secretary Ashok Bhagat.

CM assures ‘financial support’ to NUSRl

NUSRl VC Dr BC Nirmal met CM Hemant Soren on Tuesday. Speaking about the details of this interaction law cradle’s Registrar Alok Kumar Sengupta said, “As declared earlier we require `10 crores more to complete our permanent infrastructure at Nagri. He assured to give the financial support to the University shortly.” Notably, after Dr Nirmal’s joining on February 17 this was for the first time that he met CM as a courtesy. last month, the VC had met Governor Syed Ahmed as this ‘courtesy meet’. The University got its first donation for this ‘`10 crore demand’ on March 8. Out of the `50 crores budget allotted to NUSRl earlier, `36 crores has already been exhausted.

5-day training on aquifer management begins

Capacity building of people for better management of groundwater resources took the centre stage as the five-day training on “Aquifer Management and local Ground Water Issues” began at CUJ on Tuesday. As about 35 participants including 10 from the CUJ are taking part here.  Besides, participants from RU, NGOs, State Government departments and private organisations would take part, Chief Guest on the inaugural session, development commissioner of Government of Jharkhand S Prasad stressed the need of proper study of managing the natural resources and expressed the Government’s keenness on working on projects on ground water issues in collaboration with CUJ.

RU to conclude Women’s Week

RU will conclude International Women’s Week celebrations on Wednesday with a seminar on women empowerment. JSCW chairperson Mahua Maji will be the chief guest here and give a detail speech on the topic. IG S Meena and IG Anurag Gupta will also be here as guests. The information was given by RU NSS Coordinator PK Jha.

National PYKKA sports Day 2 meet concludes

The second day of four day 6th Swami Vivekananda National Panchayat Yuva Krida Aur Khel Abhiyan (PYKKA) Rural Sports was conducted at Mega Sports Complex and Birsa Munda Football Stadium on Tuesday. In judo girls, 4o kgs, 44 kgs and 48 kgs events were held. In the boy’s category judo for 42 kgs, 46 kgs, 50 kgs and 55 kgs were held. The weightlifting for girls involved 44 kgs, 48 kgs, 53 kgs and 58 kgs participation. Haryana, Punjab, Karnataka, Kerala, Tripura and Mizoram players emerged as winners in most of these competitions. In girls football Haryana led the front. None of the football teams in boy’s category could perform better than girls in today’s matches.

Energy Dev Corp fixes timeline for connection

Jharkhand Energy Development limited has fixed timeline for securing electricity connections. In meeting called on Tuesday, the officials were told that new domestic connection should be given within seven days while commercial connection in 15 days time. The meeting also stressed to increase revenue generation from all the revenue circles. Installing digital meters was also on agenda.

Tata Crucible Campus Quiz organised

The 10th edition of the India’s largest and highest rated inter-collegiate business quiz- Tata Crucible Campus Quiz is back. This time the quiz offers more excitement as it travels to 34 cities testing young minds battle it out amongst their peers. Nishant Nihar and Wasim Sajjad from NIT Rourkela emerged as winners in a neck to neck fight at the Ranchi regional round of the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2014.

‘Main hoon Nirbhaya’ screened at Satya Bharti

‘Main hoon Nirbhaya’ documentary was screened at Satya Bharti on Tuesday. It was shown to depict the violent incidents on girls.

Awareness camp to increase voter count

On the instruction of Election Commission an array of campaigns, street shows, and special drives has been organised across the State. The objective behind this drive is to generate awareness among the voters about their voting rights and to encourage them to cast their vote and help in selecting the right candidate. The commission has instructed to mark those areas which observed less number of voters in pervious election and organise special camps there.

Ekal Sangam at Ranchi

On the occasion of Ekal Abhiyan’s silver jubilee, Ekal Sangam on huge platform is going to be organised in the state capital at Morhabadi ground on March 14. On the Occation National SwyamSevak Sangh Sarsanghchalak Mohan Rao Bahgat and Ekal Abhyan member Shyam Gupta will be present on this occasion.

NIA team visits Ormanji in Ranchi

A team of National Investigating Agency (NIA) on visited Iram lodge and Chakla in Ormanjhi on Tuesday along with the arrested suspected terror outfit Aslam Parvez who was arrested on Saturday from Arwal district of Bihar on March 8 in connection with the Bodh Gaya and Patna blasts during the rally of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. The NIA is on a hunt for the alleged IM recruit-cum-sympathiser Muzibullah Ansari who staying in the lodge, supposedly preparing for civil service exams. Muzibulah was staying for few months who had introduced himself as a UPSC aspirant.

Case filed against Amitabh Chaudhary

A case has been registered against the JSCA President and JVM candidate from Ranchi Amitabh Chaudhary for violating moral code of under sections 143 and188 of IPC of Representation of People’s Act after a complaint was filed by the Circle Officer of Angara block. Chaudhary was charged of holding a public meeting without taking prior consent from the local administration.

RU holds Humanities Research Council meet

As many as 100 candidates got final approval for pursuing their research work in humanities field at Ranchi University on Tuesday. Sources confirmed that this approval will benefit the university in the coming days.