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Jamshedpur: Three police personnel died and two others sustained serious injuries when Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by CPI (Maoist) rebels exploded at Jharjhara forest in Lanji village under Toklo police station area in West Singhbhhum district around 8:45am on Thursday morning. The incident took place when the Jharkhand Jaguar team was patrolling the naxal-affected area about 160km from Jamshedpur. The Jharkhand Jaguar is a special police task force set up to tackle Maoists in the state DIG (Kolhan range) Rajiv Ranjan said a search operation is underway at the site. West Singhbhhum SP, Ajay Linda, recently told TOI that Jharjhara is a hilly forest area bordering Chaibasa, Seraikela and Khunti districts. Senior police and CRPF officials from Ranchi have rushed to Chaibasa to take stock of the ongoing operation against the rebels. ....
Jamshedpur: The Chaibasa forest division in West Singhbhhum district has become the first in the state to install Animal Intrusion Detection and Repellent System (ANIDERS), an intelligent system, to mitigate the man-animal conflict. The division has installed the system at four villages of Angardiha panchayat in Tantnagar block while 17 more villages will be covered in the coming days. Chaibasa divisional forest officer (DFO) Satyam Kumar on Tuesday said the mechanized device will prevent incidents of man-elephant conflict in the area that comes under the Singhbhum Elephant Reserve (SER). The officer further said ANIDERS uses infra-red sensors to detect animal movement and works as a mechanized scarecrow. ....