Bokaro registered three seperate suicide incidents on Saturday.The victims, including a teenager were allegedly suffering from depression.

16-year-old Rajkumar failed to gather funds to fill the form of constable recruitment examination. His father said he looked upset. He went for jogging with his elder brother in
the ground located in Kasia Tand, but he returned home first. Later when his elder brother reached home, he saw Rajkumar hanging in his room.

Ravi Kumar Burnwal, 23, was also found hanging in his house under Balidih police station.

Burnwal lived in his maternal uncle's house. His body was found in his room. He had locked the door of the room from inside and hanged himself with a rope.

Baldev Das,35, a resident of Barpokhar village under Pindrajora police station area also hanged himself in his house.

Baldev's wife Pramila Devi told police when she returned home repeated knocks on the door went unanswered. She sought help from neighbours and broke the door open to see her husband hanging in his room.

Blood bank at Sadar Hospital

Sadar Hospital inaugurated its blood bank on Saturday making it the fourth in the district.

Bokaro,DDC Jaikishore Prasad and civil surgeon, Dr A.K. Pathak inaugurated the facility.

Health department staff donated blood, said Dr Pathak.

The district health department is organising a blood donation drive from October 1 to October 15 in its effort to get more donors for thalassemia patients in the district.

"This blood bank contains most modern equipment in comparison with other blood banks in district," said Renu Bharti, deputy superintendent of Sadar Hospital.

At present blood banks are functional at Bokaro General Hospital (BGH), K.M. Memorial Hospital and Red Cross Society building.

IEDs the biggest challenge in Palamau: SP

SP Palamau Sanjeev Kumar has said in an interview with TT Online that the CPI Maoist activities have gone down in the area but the security forces are still as cautious as before to maintain the law and order of the region.

Kumar said IEDs are still the greatest challenge facing the forces as it is tricky and difficult to decipher.He said there has been a drastic scaling down of ransoms demanded by rebel splinter groups and Maoists.

"Right now the hard core criminals are away from the central jail Daltonganj and are lodged in Hotwar jail in Ranchi but nevertheless we are cautious to stem their any cellular networking of crime," said Kumar.

Bee attack on villagers

Six villagers were stung by bees in Tilra village of Ichak block,around 31kms away from Hazaribagh.

The villagers have all been sent to Hazaribagh Medical College and Hospital for treatment.

A few days ago, a villager died at the same spot after being stung by a swarm of bees.

Elderly man drowns in reservoir

Divers in stone mine reservoir in Hazaribagh on Saturday. Picture by Vishvendu Jaipuriar

A 75-year-old man drowned in Chirwa stone mine reservoir on Saturday in Daru block situated 30 kms away from Hazaribagh.

Sohan mahto went with his cattle near the mine on Friday afternoon but didn't return. Villagers informed the police who launched a search operation.

On Saturday morning, divers discovered his body. Police assumed the elderly man had accidentally slipped into the water and drowned.

Daru police station officer-in-charge Vijay Kumar Singh said the body was handed over to relatives after post mortem.