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RANCHI: As the Covid-19 cases continue to rise in many states, including Jharkhand, students preparing for Class X and XII board exams are apprehensive that their plans of pursuing higher studies outside Jharkhand may be disrupted.
Kaniska Khemka, a Class XII student of Jawahar Vidya Mandir, said, “Studying in a Delhi University-affiliated college has always been my dream but now I may have to rethink my career plans if the Covid situation continues to remain this way.” She is even feeling anxious about taking physical exams for she is afraid of getting infected despite following all the Covid-control measures. “We may maintain social distancing in the examination centres but it cannot guarantee that I won’t get Covid-19 and if I test positive, it’ll put my family members at risk.”
Ranchi: With 19 Covid deaths and 2,366 new infections, the number of active coronavirus cases reached 15,343 on Monday, breaching the 15,000-mark for .
Gumla: Qurban Ansari (25), a native of Rampur village under sadar police station of Lohardaga district, was beaten and strangled over his love affair by four brothers at the village at about 10 am on Sunday.
A police team was camping at Rampur village at the time of filing this report in the evening to prevent any flare-up in the area. Police said Ansari and his girlfriend belonged to the same religious community.
Locals told the police that the assailants were enraged after learning about Ansari’s affair with their sister. The girl had reportedly posted a photograph along with Ansari on Facebook recently.
Ranchi/Hazaribag: State health minister Banna Gupta on Sunday took to twitter and criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Tika Utsav, the four-da.
Ranchi: The Eastern Regional Buro (ERB) of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has called for a Bharat bandh on April 26 against the killing of their cadres by security forces in Chhattisgarh and Bihar during “Operation Prahar” and appealed to the masses for support.
In a press communiqué issued by Sanket, the spokesperson of the ERB, the banned organisation has detailed the reasons for calling the bandh in the backdrop of statements issued by Union home minister Amit Shah after the Chhattisgarh gunbattle.
Blaming the RSS-supported BJP government at the Centre for pushing the commoners to a “war-like situation” and targetting sons of the soil , Sanket said Operation Prahar , planned by the Centre, is not going to be successful as the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist cadres are ready.