A joint team of Dhanbad’s district administration and police busted a nexus operating an illegal lubricant factory in Barmasia area.

Four persons were arrested including two operators of the factory.

The team seized more than 400 litres of locally made lubricants besides wrappers and stickers of branded lubricant manufacturers like Gulf Oil, HP and Max.

Illegal lubricant drums and machines being seized. Gautam Dey

Dhanbad, Sub Divisional Officer, Surendra Prasad, said, "We received information about the nexus operating in Barmasia area through one official of Gulf Oil Lubricant Ltd”.

“We are in the process of identifying those involved in the illegal business and if during the investigation it comes to light that some of the shop keepers used to regularly purchase the adulterated lubricant from the factory then we will take against those shop keepers also”, said Prasad.

Police officials involved in timber smuggling

Forest personnel of Palamau tiger sanctuary recovered eighty pieces of high commercial value timber of the sal and bija tree abandoned near Khajuri More under Bhandarya police station on Thursday night.

Deputy director of North division of the tiger reserve Kumar Ashish said two police officials were involved in the smuggling.

Madgari police picket official P. Singh was involved in the felling of the tress and Bhandarya police station’s officer in charge K. Kumar helped the timber loaded pick-up van to pass through his jurisdiction.

Ashish said the DIG and IG of police would be informed about the illegal activities of the two police officers.

Children sustain burn injuries from lightning

Six children sustained minor burn injuries from lightning in Peto village around 42kms away from Hazaribagh.

The children were playing cricket and had to take shelter under a tree when it started raining. Soon after, lightning struck and they fell unconscious. One of them remained unscathed and immediately ran towards the village calling elders who rushed all to Hazaribagh medical college and hospital.

Hazaribagh sadar BJP MLA, Manish Jaiswal ensured all of them were provided treatment.

Doctors said the children were out of danger.

No mask no fuel policy in Koderma

Petrol pump owners have been directed not to give petrol to customers without masks. The policy will be applied to bikers without helmets too.

Subdivisional officer Manish Kumar on Friday chaired a meeting with petrol pump owners, asking them to spread awareness on the importance of wearing masks. The owners were instructed to hand out masks to heavy vehicle drivers if they didn’t wear one.

107 Covid patients discharged in Dhanbad

A total of 107 Covid patients were discharged on Friday from different treatment and isolation centers of Dhanbad including 35 from CMRI Health Centre; 18 each from BCCL hospital at Bhuli and Nirsa Polytechnic; 10 from Sadar Hospital; 14 from Zonal Training Institute of Railway in Bhuli, 10 from Sadar Hospital of Dhanbad, seven from BCCL Central Hospital and five from Wedlock greens.

Dhanbad Deputy Commissioner, Uma Shankar Singh said that the discharged patients have been provided health kits and asked to remain in home quarantine for 14 days.

He said that 199 persons were discharged during the last two days. 92 were discharged from different Covid treatment facilities of which 55 were discharged from Nirsa Polytechnic; 19 from Sadar Hospital; seven from Wedlock greens; six from PMCH Cath lab; two from BCCL Hospital in Bhuli etc.

At present there are only 402 active cases in the district.

Compensation for hit and run cases

Dhanbad District Transport Officer Om Prakash Yadav on Friday transferred Rs 25,000 each to the bank accounts of the dependents of three persons who died earlier in three seperate hit and run cases.

Chandani Chaubey received compensation in lieu of her husband who died in an accident on NH-2 in Rajganj,

Bhagirath Dhivar, husband of Kanchana Dhivar, who died in accident in Sindri and Dilip Ruj whose father Anil Chandra Ruj was also killed in an accident in Govindpur.

Bokaro gears up for Bermo by-election

Rajesh Kumar Singh holds the meeting with officials The Telegraph picture

Voting will be held in 468 polling booths in which polling agents of above 55 years of age will not be deployed while voters who have tested positive can vote through postal ballot.

Bokaro DC, Rajesh Kumar Singh held meetings with senior officials and a total of 18 cells including Covid-19 cell and Coordinating Cell have been formed for the election. The administration will appeal to all 3,11,107 eligible electors to exercise their franchise but also ensure that Covid-19 protocols be followed.

Sanitization of EVM-VVPAT machines will be ensured.

District Social Welfare Officer Manisha Vats has been directed to arrange wheelchairs and vehicles on polling day for physically challenged voters.

Bokaro industry revival

The Bokaro district industry department has geared up for the revival of sick units in the region known for being one of the investor-friendly hubs of the state.

General Manager, District Industries Center, Dipak Kumar Sharma on Friday requested all the industrial associations to provide the list of closed industries.

“Every effort is being made by the state government to revive the sick and closed units for the industrial development of the state. We are in process of assessing how many small and medium industries are sick or get closed in this region,” Sharma.

He added that they have sought information about the sick industries from Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Jharkhand Tiny Service and Business Enterprises Association, Bokaro Industries Association and others.

Covid-19 camp

Sampling of as many as 8400 people has been done through Rapid Antigen Tests.

This was the third such mega camp organised by the district administration. The test results will be declared on Saturday.