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  • Member of housekeeping staff at Jharkhand hospital dies two days after receiving COVID-19 vaccine

    Express News Service
    RANCHI: A member of the housekeeping staff, Mannu Pahan, 45, who was administered the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday at Medanta Hospital in Ranchi, died on Friday. The cause of his death is yet to be ascertained.

    A team of doctors has been rushed in to investigate the case and further details will be obtained only after postmortem.

    “He did not have any problem for the next two days after vaccination, but on Tuesday night he went out of his house and collapsed all of a sudden. By the time he was taken to the hospital, he was already dead,” said the civil surgeon Dr VB Prasad. Prima facie, it does not appear that he died of the vaccination, he added.

    According to family members of the deceased, the condition of Pahan deteriorated all of a sudden on Tuesday night following which they took him to the hospital, where he was declared brought dead.

    The Public Relations Officer of Medanta Hospital, Md Javed, said, “Within an hour of being administered the COVID-19 vaccine, Pahan returned to work and performed his duty uninterruptedly even the following day. All of a sudden, he fell sick and his family members took him to the hospital but he was already dead.” He said he had no information on whether Pahan was suffering from any illness.

    Javed further informed that as many as 150 health workers and housekeeping staff were administered the COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital along with Pahan on February 1. A total of 10 people were given the vaccine from the vial from which Pahan was administered but no complaint was received from any of them, he added.

    As per the data released by the health department, 48057 people have been administered the vaccine till Tuesday, but no major reaction was witnessed so far.

  • Child abducted from Kolkata rescued in Jharkhand; one arrested

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: Kolkata Police on Saturday said it has rescued a child, who had been kidnapped from the city, in neighbouring Jharkhand’s Markacho area and arrested one person.

    The kidnapping incident happened in the early hours of Monday, when the child was sleeping with his parents on the footpath in Kolkata’s Kareya, police said.

    “Going by the complaint of the parents and checking the CCTV footage, we identified the person, who had come in a car and picked up the child.

    “After tracing his location, a raid was conducted at his residence, but by that time he had already left for Jharkhand,” a police officer said.

    With the help of Jharkhand Police, Kolkata Police officers launched a search operation, rescued the child and arrested the man on Saturday night, he said.

  • Jharkhand man thrashes mother to death for delay in serving food

    Express News Service
    RANCHI: A man in Jharkhand allegedly thrashed his mother to death after she delayed serving him food on Friday night. 

    To remove evidence, the man even tried to cremate her body in his courtyard. The incident happened at Jojoguttu village under Mahoharpur Block in Chaibasa. 

    According to the villagers, the accused Pradhan Soi, 35, was living with his mother Sumi, 60, and was in the habit of drinking. On Friday evening, all of a sudden, he thrashed his mother to death.

    Police said that the incident took place late in the night of Friday at Jojoguttu village under Mahoharpur Block in Chaibasa, but was disclosed by one of the accused’s relatives on Saturday morning following which the police was called in.

    “When we went to the spot and prima facie found that Pawan Soi alias Pradhan Soi killed his mother by beating her with a stick and tried to cremate her in his courtyard.

    During the investigations, it was found that he came drunk at 9 pm on Friday and asked her mother for food. When she delayed, he took the stick lying nearby and started beating her resulting in her death,” said Manoharpur SDPO Vimlesh Tripathy. The accused has been arrested and sent to jail, he added.

  • Two arrested in Jharkhand’s Lohardaga for putting up PLFI banners

    By PTI
    LOHARDAGA: Two persons were arrested by police for putting up banners of a banned Naxal outfit in Jharkhand’s Lohardaga district, an officer said.

    On the night of January 12 banners of the People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) were put up in three separate places under the jurisdiction of Lohardaga police station.

    A case was lodged in this connection.

    During investigation, police found that two persons Balram Munda and Babulal Urao – have put up the PLFI banners to threaten businessmen and contractors of the area and to collect money from them.

    Munda and Urao were arrested by police on Thursday for putting up the banners, the officer said.

  • Jharkhand: Report sought from forest officials over elephant’s killing

    By PTI
    MEDININAGAR: The Latehar district administration of Jharkhand has sought a report from officials of the Palamu Tiger Reserve in Betla National Park over the killing of a domesticated elephant by two wild tuskers.

    A 40-year-old male elephant named ‘Kalabhairava’ was gored to death by the tuskers at Palamu Fort late on Monday night.

    In a letter to the deputy director of the tiger project on Wednesday, Latehar Deputy Commissioner Abu Imran sought to know why was the elephant shifted from the designated shelter to another location and what steps did the forest ranger take at the time of the incident to safeguard the elephant.

    It also sought to know whether the elephant was kept in a forest as per the central government guidelines.

    The male elephant, along with two female elephants, was brought from Mysuru in Karnataka.

    Though forest officials have claimed that they tried to scare away the wild tuskers by bursting crackers while they were attacking ‘Kalabhairava’, locals alleged that they were not present at the spot during the incident.

  • Wild tusker stabs tamed elephant to death at Betla National Park

    Express News Service
    RANCHI: Wild tuskers on Monday killed an ailing tamed elephant ‘Kal Bhairav’ which was chained for treatment at Betla National Park in Latehar.

    Forest officials said by the time guards reached the spot, one of the wild elephants had already stabbed the tamed elephant by using its tusks killing it on the spot.

    The incident took place at a camp where the pet elephant was undergoing treatment after a wound was spotted in one of its legs. Kal Bhairav was tied with a chain and kept separately from other pet animals in the camp, said the official.

    “One of our tamed elephants was killed by two wild tuskers which entered into the camp in Batla National Park late on Monday evening. Though the forest employees present there tried to protect it by firing crackers, they failed to save the elephant. 

    It died after being stabbed by the tusk of one of the wild animals,” said Director of Palamu Tiger Reserve YK Das. The spat took place for over half an hour. The chain, with which Kal Bhairav was tied, was unclenched and was dragged to a few meters from the camp, he added.

    According to Das, the incident probably took place out of enmity as Kal Bhairav was the only adult male in the group of tamed elephants, he added.

    Kal Bhairav along with three other elephants was brought to Betla National Park from Karnataka in March 2018.

  • Jharkhand: In viral video, BJP MLA backs cybercriminals of Jamtara, his constituency

    Express News Service
    RANCHI: BJP MLA and former minister Randheer Singh said in a public meeting that he will be compelled to ‘gherao’ police stations if people of his constituency are disturbed by police without any valid reasons.

    Jamtara, considered to be an epicenter of cybercrimes in India, has been a hunting ground for cyber police from all over India. Many cases of digital fraud are traced out to this backward district of Jharkhand. Phishing callers in Jamtara are extraordinarily trained who generally use basic techniques to obtain bank account details from their targets after preying skillfully on their fears.

    In a video, which has been made viral on social media, the BJP MLA could be heard saying that people of his constituency are unnecessarily being disturbed by the police without any reason.

    “If our men are clever and able to cheat people in other states, why they are being disturbed by the police. Don’t you dare disturb poor people of my constituency? If I get mad, I will ‘gherao’ the police station,” said Singh. “Why do you get into the trap made by the people of my constituency?”, he asked.

    Singh, however, appealed to the cybercriminals not to get indulged in big frauds. 

    “Your MLA gets disturbed as people are being arrested by the police every day and I have to make recommendations to release them,” admitted the MLA. He said that he is speaking the truth as nobody has ever succeeded in duping the people of his constituency in ATM fraud, he added.

    “If money from other states is coming to our state, what could be better than this,” said the former minister.

  • No confirmed case of bird flu in Jharkhand

    By ANI
    RANCHI: Even as the avian influenza is spreading across various states, Jharkhand’s Director of Animal Husbandry Department, Nancy Sahay on Monday said there are no confirmed cases of bird flu in the state yet.

    Sahay said, “We have sent 4,014 samples for testing till January 17. No death was reported among poultry birds. As per the instructions by the Centre, we are not going to impose a ban on poultry products.”

    On January 12, Sahay said that death of poultry birds has been reported in the state so far.

    Moreover, Rapid Response Teams have been formed which are monitoring the situation across the state, she had added. 

  • Jharkhand: Woman killed in Maoist landmine blast

    By Express News Service
    RANCHI: A woman was killed while another injured in a series of landmine blasts triggered by the Maoists in Gotang jungles in Latehar on Saturday. Locals claimed that the Maoists also fired indiscriminately after triggering the blast.

    According to police, the landmine was exploded when a group of women had gone into the jungles to fetch fire-wood on Saturday killing Sanjho Devi and leaving Phoolmani Devi seriously injured. She has been admitted to the nearby referral hospital in Garu.

    When security forces reached the spot after being informed about the incident, an encounter took place with the Maoists. 

    The rebels escaped into the dense forests.

  • Health staff, Army men to get first lot of 1.66 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine in Jharkhand

    Express News Service
    RANCHI: The first lot of COVID-19 vaccine doses reached Jharkhand on Wednesday.

    “Vaccination for COVID-19 will be done at 129 centres all over the state where 100 people on an average will be administered the vaccine on the first day. The first lot of vaccines will be given primarily to health workers and Army men,” said state Health Minister Banna Gupta.

    According to the minister, 1.66 lakh doses have been made available in the first lot, out of which 1.31 lakh will be administered to government and private health workers already identified by the state government.

    “The remaining 35,000 doses will be made available to Army camps in Ranchi, Namkom and Ramgarh as per their requirement,” said Gupta. The second lot of doses is likely to reach within a fortnight, he added.

    According to the minister, the process of dispatching the vaccine to different districts has already been started and the respective deputy commissioners and civil surgeons have been given directions in this regard to follow ICMR guidelines for administering the vaccine.

    Around 99.89 lakh people have been identified for COVID-19 vaccination in Jharkhand. In the first phase, 1.5 lakh healthcare workers and 2 lakh frontline workers will be vaccinated.