Новости за 27.03.2021

In the wake of a resurgence of Covid-19 cases, the Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) management on Friday issued an advisory for its 12,000-odd employees, urging them to abstain from celebrating Holi amid huge gatherings.

A day after Jharkhand recorded the highest ever single-day spike of Covid-19 cases this year (278 cases), doctors and administrative officials, who played an important role in flattening the curve in the state, pointed at the negligence of the citizens who went lax after the cases dipped and the vaccination drive began in the country.

Despite rising Covid-19 figures, Bihar-bound trains from Tatanagar railway station are witnessing a surge in demand for tickets ahead of Holi.

Although Covid-19 may play a spoilsport on Holi even this year, the skies will remain bright and sunny with slim chances of rain, but mercury levels are expected to soar, said the Ranchi office of India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday.

Hundreds of home guards staging a dharna near the Sai temple in Dhurwa under the banner of Jharkhand Home-guard Welfare Association (JHWA) seeking better service conditions blocked the Jagannathpur-Pundag Road for six hours on Friday after they ran short of water at the protest venue.

Acting on a tip-off, police have arrested two People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) members during a vehicle-checking drive here.

Jharkhand Rajya Kisan Sangharsh Samanvaya Samiti (JRKSSS), Left parties and the trade unions on Friday staged dharnas at various places in support of the Bharat bandh seeking repeal of the Centre’s new farm laws and the amended labour laws.

The Central GST (CGST) commissionerate, Ludhiana’s anti-evasion wing arrested two businessmen for their involvement in the Rs 484-crore bogus billing racket.