Musharraf Alam abducted a 16-year-old Hindu girl on April 24 from the Warisaliganj police station area of the Nawada district of Bihar. Almost after 15
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The first wave of Covid-19 pandemic left lakhs of people devastated due to the fear of unknown, unpreparedness and uncertainty. A year of fighting and preparations later, cases continue to overwhelm the system in the second wave and uncertainty remains a constant. The contagion has by now directly or indirectly hit most if not all homes, causing either loss of lives or livelihood. Or both. Four people who have encountered Covid-19 in close quarters tell Komal Gautham how it’s an ongoing fight
He’s tormented by wails of the grieving
VDinakaran has been working at the Kannammapet crematorium for a decade now, but not once until now has the grief hit home so hard. The number of bodies he cremates has increased five-fold and the pain and grief he sees every day has got to him, he says. “The grief is so much that I am unable to shed tears. We try to console families, but the pain is too much to handle.” He says he has not been able to eat or sleep properly for tw
Apr 4, 2021
The programme was organized in collaboration with Divisional Forest Officer, Forest Division Batote, Kuldeep Singh, who also planted a Chinar sapling in front of Quarter Guard of Battalion complex alongwith Amit Gupta-SSP, Commandant IRP 16th Battalion.
During the plantation drive, saplings were also planted by several district officers who were invited to participate in the plantation drive. Prominent among them were Nisar Ahmad, Executive Engineer, PDD, Ramban; Nazir Ahmad Jaral, Executive Engineer, PHE, Ramban; Maqbool Hussain Choudhary, Executive Engineer, PWD, Ramban; Reyaz lqbal Tantray-SP, Adjutant IRP 16th Bn; Kishore Kumar Gupta, AEE, PHE Ramban; Munir Ahmad, JE, PHE, Ramban. Divisional Forest Officer and participating officers/officials appreciated the efforts of jawans and other ranks of IRP 16th Battalion for ensuring optimum green areas in and around the complex.