Ashok Kumar is new AGM of ECR
Ashok Kumar took over the charge of Additional General Manager, East Central Railway, Hajipur on Thursday. Prior to this assignment, he was working as Chief Administrative Officer (Construction) in this Railway itself. Kumar belongs to IRSE (Indian Railway Service of Engineers) batch of 1984 exam batch. He began his career with Indian Railways as Assistant Divisional Engineer at Hapur, Northern Railway in July 1986. During his 34 years of long illustrious career, Kumar held important posts at Executive and Managerial in Indian Railways. These include Chief Engineer/North Western Railway, Jaipur; Additional Divisional Railway Manager/North Western Railway, Jodhpur Division and Divisional Railway Manager/South Central Railway, Vijayawada Division.
3 held in BJP activist’s murder
In a major breakthrough, police arrested three persons namely, Amulya Karmakar (49), Ram Ravidas (24) and Vishwanath Munda (21) involved in murder of 29-year-old lawyer, Prakash Yadav at Birsanagar. The police claimed that Yadav was murdered due to personal enmity. East Singhbhum senior SP, M Tamil Vanan addressed a press briefing after detection of the case on Thursday. He informed that the lawyer's murder was conspired after the land mafia, Amulya Karmakar and the neighbours joined hands to end his life. Vanan had set up an SIT led by city SP, Subhash Chandra Jat for the detection of the case a day after the lawyer was murdered on Tuesday night. Jat along with over half-a-dozen police officers, including two DSPs not only arrested those involved, but also recovered some weapon used in the murdered, blood-stained clothes of the assailants, cellphone of conspirators Amulya Karmakar and Rs 19,500 cash recovered.
Jaiswal hands over memorandum to Oraon
A delegation led by All India Professional Congress Jharkhand, State President Aditya Vikram Jaiswal met Finance Minister Rameshwar Orarn and presented a memorandum regarding the nomination of Syndicates sand Senate members of the various universities. The agenda stated that some posts were nominated by the BJP government due to which many decisions of the university administration are affected. Little or no efforts are being made to solve the problems of students, teachers and non-teaching personnel. The Minister has assured positive steps in this regard. Dhanbad District Professional Congress President Professor DK Singh, District General Secretary Shriram Chaurasia, Dhanbad General Secretary Sanjay Jaiswal and others were present on the occasion.
JPYC demands opening of Gyms
President of Jharkhand Pradesh Youth Congress (JPYC) Committee Kumar Gaurav on Thursday said that there is a need to open gyms and gymnasiums. "This will help increase the immunity of the people of the Country, while millions of youth who became unemployed due to lockdown will be helped to re-employment. We demand from the Central Government should allow the running of gymnasiums and gyms with the guidelines of social distancing," he added. JPYC Secretary, Ujjwal Tiwari said that running a gym and gymnasium is necessary to prepare for sports, to stay healthy, to develop immunity.
NSUI demands fee waiver
NSUI state secretary Amarjeet Kumar has written a letter to Vice Chancellor of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchi requesting for fee waiver of students during corona pandemic. NSUI state secretary, Amarjeet Kumar, urged the VC to waive fees by at least 50% as many parents are facing financial distress. He said that the Vice-Chancellor does not meet anyone nor attends phone call. The NSUI leader urged the VCto remain available to the students during this time of epidemic so that the students get a morale booster. He said that giving 10% fee waiver is joke with students and NSUI would never tolerate.
ICFAI University launches SWAADHAY-II
ICFAI University, Jharkhand on Thursday launched Swaadhyay-II, advanced version of its Digital Education Platform, which provides outcomes-based education and makes online classes more interesting to the students by using a number of Digital Education Tools, like Polling, Quiz Programs, Group Discussions etc. Prof O R S Rao, Vice-Chancellor, ICFAI University, Jharkhand, announced it today, while speaking at an EduLeaders Virtual Summit -2020 organised by International Chamber for Service Industry. Addressing the international webinar, Prof Rao shared the experience of ICFAI University, Jharkhand in launching Digital Education Delivery Platform, Swaadhyay, within 10 days of announcement of lock-down due to COVID-19 pandemic.
JIS gives Digital solutions
The Covid-19 pandemic, followed by the lockdown has ensured a topsy-turvy situation in every sector, along with “new normal” rules substituting our older ones. The results of the West Bengal Board of Higher Secondary examination has already been declared yesterday and students are suffering from an uncertainty regarding the admission processes in colleges and online classes. Clearing the air on the practical classes, the Managing Director of JIS group Taranjit Singh informed, “We have already taken online classes and our teachers are proficient and competent enough to conduct them. For practical classes, we have decided on two methods for teaching our engineering students. The first one is the Simulation Software-process. Simulation software is basically the process of representing a real phenomenon with a set of diagrams and formulas. It is, essentially, a programme that allows the user to observe the functioning through simulation without actually performing that operation.”