In an interesting development, senior Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram has been added as a member to the Department-Related Standing Committee (DRSC) on Home Affairs at a time when the parliamentary panel is discussing three proposed laws that will replace the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act.
Apart from Jaishankar, two other MPs set to retire from Rajya Sabha from the state include Dinesh Anavadiya and Jugalsinh Lokhandwala. Six MPs from West Bengal and one from Goa are also set to retire from Rajya Sabha in this lot
A woman gets tested at Ranchi airport on Saturday
RANCHI: Jharkhand imposed the third edition of the 38-hour complete lockdown from Saturday evening as part of its ongoing health safety week (partial lockdown) but is battling a dilemma on whether to go for further unlock or impose extra curbs in the coming weeks.
The current phase of the weekly lockdown ends on July 1 and the government was planning further relaxation but with the emergence of the Delta-plus variant of the Covid-19 virus in some states of the country, it has to be vigilant.
The second wave of the pandemic crossed its peak in the state in May and since then the number of new cases daily has been reducing. Currently, Jharkhand has about 1,100 active cases but with the declining number of new cases and fatalities, over 90% of the 10,000 Covid beds are empty.