Criminals loot cash, gold in Bermo
Ten masked criminals looted gold and cash on gunpoint from the house of an ex-employee of CCL cum businessman in Bokaro’s Kathara Officer colony Qr no NC-18 at 2:30 am on Saturday. The entire family members were sleeping at that time police sources said. The incident took place late on intervening night of Friday-Saturday under Bokaro Thermal police station limits. Police said as per the FIR registered, 10 men barged into the ex-CCL employee cum businessman’s quarter at Officer Colony.
SP Bokaro, Chandan Kumar Jha said that all family members including a child were sleeping at that time. The dacoits broke the wooden door and entered from the rear side of the house at around 2 am. They showed them a gun and hit them with sticks, following which they looted cash 6,000 and gold ornaments of Rs 7 lakhs.
Seminar organised at BAU
A seminar on 'Protection and conservation of environment and biodiversity: Post Covid-19' was organised in the Department of Animal Production and Management (LPM) of Birsa Agricultural University (BAU) on Saturday. Speakers stressed that any campaign for plantation, water conservation, pollution minimization and compassion for all living creatures should start right from home, neighbourhood and workplace of those involved. The event was organised under the auspices of World Bank-aided National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP) under operation at BAU.
‘JIS Idea-O-Meter'
JIS Group, one of the largest educational conglomerates in India, on Thursday announced ‘JIS Idea-O-Meter’, an online funding platform where creators can share and gather interest on a particular project they would like to launch. It is entirely driven by crowdfunding and will be available to more than 37000 current JIS students along with its teachers, staffs and millions of JIS alumni members who have been a part of the group for last 20 years. After teaming up with atleast one JIS community member any individual will also be entitled to submit projects at ‘JIS Idea-O-Meter’. This is a first of its kind crowdfunding initiative introduced by any educational institute in Eastern India for its larger community members.
PARADISE group relief work
Members of the PARADISE group distributed ration and relief material for nutritious diet to 40 pregnant women of Gadkhatanga, Tonko, Sabyabagan, Naya Bhusur, Magubandh, Mahuatoli, Bentoli, Lalkhatanga, Kochbong, Kharsidag village of Lalkhatanga Panchayat of Namkum block. In this difficult phase of the epidemic, their family's regular income was not able to cope with them and in such a situation the danger was posed due to malnutrition. The total project cost was around Rs 40,000. In this hour of crisis, the group has thanked all the donors, said Alok Poddar, Honorary secretary, Paradise.