District Council meeting held
lohardaga: District Council president Jaywanti Kumari held a meeting on Thursday. Work by the departments of education, husbandry, sanitation, supply and gardening was reviewed. For backward areas, a compensation package and a Rs 15-crore development project were considered for the current financial year, the latter coming under the Backward Regions Grant Fund. Jaywanti Kumari also said action was expected against officials who put hurdles in the way of growth and progress. She also checked on distribution of ration foodgrain and sought accuracy. DDC Jagjeet Singh, District Council vice-president Maneer Oraon and other officials were also present.
bjp blocks NH-33 against poor roads
Jamshedpur: Vehicular movement on National Highway 33 on Ghatshila- Bahragora link came to a standstill for more than two hours on Thursday as BJP workers led by senior leader Dineshanand Goswami blocked the link to protest against its shabby condition. The agitation began at 10 am as party activists led by Goswami squatted on the NH-33 at Ghatshila Phoolgundri Chowk. The agitators raised slogans against the Government for its failure to repair the NH-33 which has turned a death trap
Youth Cong urges youngsters to join
lohardaga: A meeting of the Youth Congress Committee was held under the leadership of Nishith Jaiswal. Jharkhand Youth Congress in-charge Harish Pawar, and area in-charge Rajesh Sinha, representatives from Mander, Gumla, Sisai, Bishunpur and lohardaga were present. Pawar appealed to youth to come forward for strengthening the hand of Rahul Gandhi.
Angioplasty centre gets new consultant
Jamshedpur: Brahmananda Narayana Multispeciality Hospital in Jamshedpur is one of
the few centers in Jharkhand, which has the expertise and the readiness to perform an emergency angioplasty, called as Primary Angioplasty on a patient who suffers a heart attack.
The hospital on an average takes 12 to 15 such cases in a month. A team of doctors on Thursday announced this while introducing Dr. Indrani Shyam, Consultant Cardiologist.
49th Junior National Football meet begins
Bokaro: The 49th Junior National Football Championship for BC Roy Trophy started in Bokaro. The BSl's acting CEO, Umesh Kumar formally inaugurated the Championship for juniors (U-17) at the Mohan Kumar Mangalam Stadium. The final match of the tournament will be played on the September 28. Organised by BSl's Sports and Civic Amenities department, a total of 15 teams and 350 footballers from Maharashtra, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Tripura, Bihar, Gujarat, Sikkim, Rajasthan, Nagaland, Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh and SAI will battle it out for the honours.
Kannelite to start work for hotel soon
Jamshedpur: Facility management services company Kannelite Facility Management Services (P) limited, which provides services to industrial houses and hotels will foray into hotel segment from January 2014. The company's corporate office is in Jamshedpur.
The company will start the ground work of its proposed 40-room hotel at Angul in Odisha from next year. The company has acquired a land area of two acre at Angul and is gearing up to start the work from January. It has earmarked to invest Rs 6-7 crores for its project.
ABVP protests against DAV college closure
Daltonganj: Activists of ABVP on Thursday evening took out a torch light procession and held meeting. A senior ABVP leader Rohit Pathak said the torch light procession was taken out to decry the sine die closure of the DAV Institute of Engineering Technology. Rohit said the DAV management must lift this closure and resume teaching business in this technical college. The ABVP has taken up the cause of the engineering students of this institute.