CM orders deduction of IAS officer’s pension
Ranchi: Chief Minister Hemant Soren has ordered to deduct 5 per cent from the pension of retired IAS officer Bhagwan Prasad for the next ten years for regularising 36 daily wage employees while he was posted as Director, Jharkhand State Mine Development Corporation without following the standard procedure. Prasad was also found to had given payments to 156 daily wage workers as regular employees, without looking into the interest of corporation.
Symposium at RU Sociology dept from today
Ranchi: A symposium at Ranchi University’s Sociology department will be organised from May 5 to 7 on Quality Education Programme. Barkatullah University Sociology department head Dr Gautam Gyanendra will speak on this occasion. The symposium will be inaugurated by RU VC Dr lN Bhagat on Monday, said department’s nodal officer Prabhat Kumar Singh.
CM’s nod to book Retd Asst Engineer
Ranchi: Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Sunday gave his approval to book Assistant Engineer (Retd) Shyamnath Dubey in latehar under section 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120 B. Dubey has allegations of illegally withdrawing a sum.
Amitabh Bachchan felicitates Ranchi boy
Ranchi: legendary Film actor Amitabh Bachchan felicitated a scholarship of $200,000 to Roshan Kumar, a resident of Ranchi at
la Trobe University. Kumar will undertake PhD into the potential of using social media to better communicate health messages to India’s estimated 80 million social media users. He graduated from la Trobe with a Master degree in International Business, in 2010. He studied Bachelor of Engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology, at Ranchi, in 2006. The scholarship will be presented every four years by Bachchan to an Indian citizen to develop a thesis related to media, digital technology and communication.