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CUJ to celebrate Chinese New Year

The Centre for Far East languages of CUJ Chinese will celebrate Chinese New Year ‘Chunjie’ also called as Spring Festival, for three days beginning February 12. Dr Yuge Ma, a scholar from Oxford University has kindly given her consent to deliver lecture on the topic ‘Juxtapose: a global odyssey of knowing China and India’ on February.  Zhang Yang, another scholar from JNU, New Delhi, will deliver a lecture to the students on February 14. He will also speak on ‘Hurdles in learning Chinese language’. Besides, the scholars will also showcase traditional arts, crafts and cultural skills to the students.

 lions prayer for Hirakund victims

As many as 17 members of lions Club along with their family members were found dead in the untoward incident of Hirakund Dam where a boat capsized due to overweight. In order to pay respect and homage to the departed soul members of lions club assembled at Morhabadi ground. They prayed the Almighty to give strength to the family members of the deceased.   

 Sushil Kumar felicitated

Former Chief Accounts Officer of Jharkhand State Housing Board Sushil Kumar Prasad Sinha was felicitated by the members of Chitransh Welfare committee for his hard work and dedication. Expressing his happiness over the reward and applauding the love of people for him, Kumar said that he has to do more work in future and his life’s second inning will be dedicated for the welfare of the people.   

 JSPl joins rescue ops in Sambalpur

Jindal Steel and Power limited (JSPl) have joined the rescue operations in Sambalpur, Odisha after a boat with 120 people on board capsized in the Hirakud lake on Sunday. The company has pressed into service an Augusta 139 helicopter for Reconnaissance purposes. The helicopter is helping in locating survivors if any as well as in retrieving bodies. JSPl Spokesperson said that aerial reconnaissance is being carried out to gain vital information about the accident. After surveying from the top, we then inform the ground level staff of any development be it in terms of finding survivors or retrieving bodies.

 Guv House Garden to open for one more day

As per Governor’s order, the Governor House garden will remain opened for one more day for school children. Over 96,381 people visited the garden on Monday.

 Akhtar meets Welfare dept officers

Jharkhand State Minority Commission Chairperson Shahid Akhtar met the officials of State Welfare Department and enquired the ongoing government policies for the minorities. He instructed the officials to sort out the problems related to implementation on these schemes.

 CMPDI unveils Disability Cricket camp

CMPDI Director AK Ghosh inaugurated the 8th National Disabled Cricket camp on Monday. Players from all the districts of the state are participating in the camp. The players selected from this camp will represent at the 8th National Disabled Cricket Tournament at lucknow.

 FJCCI writes to Khunti SP against killing

Federation of Jharkhand Chamber and Commerce and Industries on Monday, writing a letter to the Khunti SP has demanded to unveil the killing of the young bus owner in the district. It was also mentioned in the letter that several people were killed in Khunti in the last few days after a group of anti-social elements became active. Due to the rising threat on their lives the business community is now planning to emigrate from the district, stated the letter by the Chairman of the law and Order Committee Shyam Sunder Agrawal.   

HC rejects Bastawade’s bail application

The Jharkhand High Court on Monday rejected the bail application of Anil Adinath Bastawade, accused in the Money laundering case also involving former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda. Bastawade has been charged of investing the illegal money in foreign country acquired by Koda and was brought to Ranchi after being arrested from Indonesia.

Sub-committee slams commercial tax

A meeting of the sub-committee Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce and Industries on commercial tax was held at chamber building raising objections on the arrangements made by the commercial tax officers.

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