New mayor to be named today
Ranchi: Counting for mayoral polls will be conducted today at Pandra Bazaar Samiti. As many as 20 tables will be placed in three counting halls and two employees will be deputed at each table besides one ARO in each hall. Counting will be completed in 15 rounds.
Munda to visit Bhognadih on Hul Diwas Former Chief Minister Arjun Munda will visit Bhognadih on ‘Hul Diwas’ to pay tribute to the martyrs of Santhal Movement Sido-Kanhu and thousand others who sacrificed their lives in the freedom movement.
RU VC selected for award
Ranchi: RU VC lN Bhagat will be conferred ‘Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education’ at a ceremony that will organized at Mumbai on June 27. The award will be conferred at the ‘World Chancellors & Vice Chancellors Congress-2014’. The award consists of a Trophy and a Citation in recognition to the contribution made by the recipient in the field of education. The RU VC has been communicated about his selection for the award by Chairman of Awards & Academic Committee Edward Smith.
Admin marks no-protest zone for 60 days
Ranchi: Ranchi district administration has banned protest in 100-metre periphery from the wall of Rajbhawan and Chief Minister’s House, 150-metre periphery of Nepal House, 750-metre perimeter of Vidhansabha and 200-meter perimeter of Project, FFP building , Police HQ. The prohibitory order will be in effect for 60-days and will be come into effect from 6pm today. Sec-144 will be enforced near above government buildings.
DPS boy makes it to AIIMS
Ranchi: DPS Ranchi student Pratyush Prakash has been selected in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) medical entrance test. Prakash secured 153 rank in the examination. He also qualified the AIPMT securing 829 rank and was the only student of Jharkhand to participate in the international Biology Olympiad for two consecutive years 2012-13. Principal Dr Ram Singh congratulated Prakash and said that such achievements boost the morale of students and set examples for others.
GuruNanak Schoolobserves anti-drugs day
Ranchi: Guru Nanak Higher Secondary School on Thursday celebrated anti-Drugs Day to commemorate the day adopted by the United Nations as a day to fight against drug abuse, marking the date chosen to commemorate lin Zexu’s dismantling of the opium trade in Human, Guangdong, just before the first Opium War in China in 1988. Children of all the four houses made posters, displayed throughout the school depicting the ills of drug abuse to their friends.