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Ranchi: The number of active Covid cases in Jharkhand breached the 50,000-mark on Tuesday with 6,020 new infections and 4.247 recoveries in the last 24 hours. With 131 deaths, the state also registered its biggest single-day fatality count, surpassing the 124 reported on Monday. The state’s cumulative caseload stood at 2,13,414, of which 1,59,916 have recovered, 51,252 are active cases and 2,246 have died. More than half the death through the pandemic have taken place this month alone. Ranc...

Police Uncle Tutorial: Mission to help dropouts reclaim their future in Maoist hotbed The Police Uncle Tutorial of Simdega town is changing the lives of hundreds of children, reports Mukesh Ranjan. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- The Police Uncle Tutorial provides free coaching for children and for those appearing for Class X exams | express Express News Service JHARKHAND:  Going beyond the duty of maintaining law and order, the police in Simdega town of Jharkhand, have come up with the ‘P...

Gumla: The Simdega district administration has started work to set up 10 ICU and 50 oxygen-supported beds at the district hospital to cater to the needs of critical Covid-19 patients. Deputy commissioner Sushant Gaurav on Thursday said the administration is also in the process of setting up an oxygen supply centre and a refilling plant soon. He said, "The district hospital will also soon cater to Covid patients requiring oxygen support. The Shanti Bhawan Medical Centre, a private hospital in B...

Ranchi: On Day One of the weeklong lockdown, the Covid-19 crisis deepened in Jharkhand on Thursday after the state reported 106 deaths, the first time the figure has been in the three digits. Of these, state capital Ranchi alone accounted for 53 casualties – just six short of the 53 in the whole of October, which until March has been the pandemic’s worst month. Adding to the woes of hospitals, already teeming with patients, the state reported 7,595 new cases –2,554 more than the previous...

Gumla: In arguably a first for the state, the Simdega district administration went paperless after fully shifting to the e-office mode to prevent the .

Ranchi: Thirteen months after the first case of Covid-19 surfaced in the state capital, Jharkhand on Friday detected a record 3,843 single-day infecti.

Ranchi: Hundreds of contractual professors engaged in post-graduate and constituent colleges of Ranchi University (RU) expressed distress over the delay in their salary and lack of facilities for conducting online classes. Currently, 340 contractual associate professors are associated with RU. The contractual professors also allege neglect despite performing several administrative works apart from teaching students. The professors, who are paid at the rate of Rs 600 per class, have not been g...

Gumla: The Simdega district administration on Thursday announced the closure of weekly bazaars in the town till further orders and set up crowd disper.

Ranchi: With 31 Covid deaths and 3,198 new infections, Wednesday was Jharkhand’s deadliest day so far in the ongoing pandemic. The state’s new infections on the day was just a 100-odd less than the 3,331 cases detected on August 31, when 1.63 lakh samples were tested in a special drive. Comparatively, only 34,995 samples were tested on Wednesday, indicating a positivity rate of 9.14%. In a matter of concern, 100 people have died with Covid in the last four days – more than one every hour...

Jharkhand reported its highest single-day-spike in Covid cases and casualties this year on Tuesday as at least 2,844 state residents were found infected by the deadly virus and 29 Covid patients died in 24 hours, figures compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM) highlighted. As per a bulletin released by the NHM on Tuesday night, the active caseload in Jharkhand reached 17,155 on the day, while the count of Covid patients in Ranchi jumped to 7,587 as the district alone accounted for 1,049 o...