Jamshedpur, June 28 (IANS) At least three children have died in the last 48 hours in the Potka block of the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand due to Cerebral (brain) malaria, officials said on Sunday.This has created a serious health crisis in the region prompting the authorities to launch a mass scale survey.Fresh cases are still emerging from affected villages, while more than 20 patients — many of them children — have been admitted to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Medical College and…
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Jamshedpur, May 27 (IANS) A shocking case of sexual assault has emerged from Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district, where a 15-year-old girl was allegedly held hostage and brutally raped by a government health department employee, officials said on Wednesday.The incident was reported from Kitadih under the jurisdiction of Parsudih Police Station in East Singhbhum district.According to the complaint, the accused, identified as Munna Tamsi, an employee posted in the malaria department in Gamharia, a…
Jamshedpur, May 24 (IANS) The body of a missing 15-year-old Class 9 student was hanging from a tree in a secluded area in Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district, triggering tension in the area, officials said on Sunday. The deceased, identified as Mala Singh, had been missing since the evening of May 21. Her body was discovered on Saturday in a secluded area near a field, around two kilometres from her home in Nutandih village under the Bodam police station limits, triggering panic and outrage amon…
Jamshedpur, April 16 (IANS) Panic gripped the Panipat–Nagurdasai area under Baharagora in Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district after a massive live bomb dating back to the Second World War was recovered from the banks of the Subarnarekha River. This is the third instance of wartime explosives being found in the area within the past month.According to local residents, the falling water level of the river due to rising temperatures has exposed these old bombs that were buried beneath the sandy su…