Ranchi: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday said the second round of meetings of opposition parties in Bengaluru was a positive developme.
Ranchi: The Central Industrial Security (CISF) Force detained a woman, who is a non-resident Indian living in the US, during the security check at the.
Ranchi, Sep. 4 (PTI): At least 30 MLAs of the ruling UPA coalition in Jharkhand, who were camping at a resort near Raipur since August 30, arrived in Ranchi in a chartered aircraft on Sunday afternoon to attend a special session of the assembly, an official said. “The chartered plane carrying the MLAs has landed at Ranchi airport,” the airport official told PTI. Fearing poaching of its MLAs by the opposition BJP to topple the government, Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-led alliance had shifted the legislators to a luxurious resort in Nava Raipur. The chartered aircraft with 30 legislators, and some other leaders of the JMM and Congress on board, took off from the Swami Vivekananda Airport in Raipur and landed at Birsa Munda Airport here around 6 pm, the official said. Hemant Soren will seek a vote of trust during the special session of the legislative assembly on Monday.
Ranchi: A minor fire broke out in the CISF chambers situated on the first floor of the old terminal building of Birsa Munda International Airport in Ranchi on Thursday. However, a major mishap was averted due to the pro-active response of fire tenders of Airports Authority of India.
According to airport sources, the fire broke out around 11:45am supposedly due to a short circuit. The fire damaged furniture and the false ceiling wall of the CISF room on the first floor of the old terminal building.
Talking to TOI, airport director of Birsa Munda International Airport Vinod Kumar Sharma said: “A minor fire broke out at the CISF room situated on the first floor in the old terminal building. However, our fire tenders successfully doused it in time. No one has been injured during the incident and a sofa and wooden table was damaged during the incident and the false ceiling was partially damaged.”