Holding banners which read ‘Justice For Rupa Tirkey,’ ‘CBI Inquiry Into Rupa Tirkey Case’ and ‘Arrest Pankaj Mishra’, people stood on the roadside and shouted slogans
RANCHI: Even amid growing cases of Covid, people from all walks of life on Friday descended on the streets to demand a CBI probe into the death of sub-inspector Rupa Tirkey and formed a human chain in Kanthitand area of Ratu in Ranchi.
Holding banners which read ‘Justice For Rupa Tirkey,’ ‘CBI Inquiry Into Rupa Tirkey Case’ and ‘Arrest Pankaj Mishra’, people stood on the roadside and shouted slogans. Police said the protestors, mostly women, staged the demonstration peacefully for around 20 minutes and then dispersed.
ISSUE DATE: May 17, 2021
UPDATED: May 7, 2021 23:36 IST
Staff at the Ghazipur crematorium in Delhi cart in fresh logs as
funeral pyres burn all around them (Rajk Raj/ Getty Images)
The second wave of Covid-19 is still cresting but by now we have all been touched by its terrors, and all too many of us by its sorrows and the dismal realisation that we are in the midst of a recurring nightmare, a tragedy foretold. Here, we expose the sorry tale of neglect, apathy and failure of our political leadership. The institutional collapse and bureaucratic cowardice that facilitated super-spreader religious festivals and the political carnival of an eight-phase election campaign even as the second wave of a pandemic was breaking. The narcissism that enabled our leadership to ignore the warnings of expert groups. Their inability to form bipartisan alliances between the Centre and the states in the middle of a national calamity. Now that some of the loudest voices in the land have gone quiet, t
ASIA/INDIA - Christians observe a special National Day of fasting and prayer for the nation affected by the pandemic INDIA 2021-05-07
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - While the Catholic Church in India loses another Bishop due to Covid-19, recording the death of 65-year-old Mgr. Basil Bhuriya Bishop of Jabhua, in Madhya Pradesh (after the death of Antony Anandarayar, Archbishop Emeritus of Pondicherry-Cuddalore), Christians in India observe today, May 7, a special National Day of Fasting and Prayer to ask God for an end to the pandemic. The devastating second wave of the pandemic has greatly altered everyone s life, with millions of people struggling under the weight of a severe health and financial crisis. At this time of global pandemic, we urge Christians across the country to unite as one family to pray for a world free from Covid , reads the note released by Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, and President of the Bishops Conference of India (CBCI), a
Church cares for pandemic-hit poor in eastern India
Regardless of ethnicity or faith, the Archdiocese of Ranchi is feeding the disadvantaged
A free lunch distribution stall run by the Archdiocese of Ranchi outside the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Jharkhand s state capital Ranchi. (Photo supplied)
An archdiocese in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has launched a free lunch service for relatives of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in the state capital’s biggest hospital.
The Archdiocese of Ranchi started the humanitarian initiative on May 4 outside the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS). More than 300 people receive a free lunch every day and the number will gradually increase in size, Auxiliary Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas of Ranchi told UCA News on May 5.
The Jharkhand government has decided to set up dedicated Rapid Antigen Test booths in villages for mass testing of Covid-19 following an ICMR directive of prioritising rapid tests over RT PCR in the current scenario, officials from the health department said on Thursday.
The dedicated rapid Covid testing centres will also help in identifying positive cases among the several thousand migrant labourers who have started returning to Jharkhand after many states enforced lockdowns in the wake of the surge in Covid cases, health officials said.
Many migrant workers had reportedly dodged mandatory Covid testing at railway stations in the state recently. Such people could be tested in the villages itself once the dedicated RAT centres are set up, officials said.