A newly-married couple met with an accident on Urimari road, killing the husband on the spot.

Ami Raza and his wife Sania Perween were returning from Bariatu on Wednesday afternoon when a mini truck coming from the opposite direction hit their bike.

Sania sustained serious injuries and was being given treatment at a local hospital in Barkagaon. Doctors said she was in a critical condition.

Commander of TPC in custody in Palamau

Girender Ganjhu after his arrest The Telegraph picture

Girender Ganjhu, zonal commander of TPC, a banned splinter group of rebels was caught on Tuesday and remanded in judicial custody on Wednesday in Daltonganj.

Ganjhu has 8 cases against him from 2015 in Palamau.

SDPO Shambhu Kumar Singh said Ganjhu’s arresr has weakened the TPC.

The commander was caught in Chhaterpur.

The rebel outfit is now left with Udesh Ganjhu.

Tractor accident

A 12-year-old boy sustained serious head injuries when a tractor hit him near Kheskaro Mor on Jai Nagar-Jhumriteliya road in Koderma on Wednesday afternoon.

Local villagers said the boy was playing on road when the tractor was passing.

Officer-in-charge of Jai Nagar police station, Shyamlal Yadav said tractor was seized and a case registered against the driver.

The driver told the police that he had failed to notice the boy.

License for Plasma Therapy to PMCH

PMCH Blood Bank of Dhanbad has been granted plasma therapy license by the Central Licenses Approving Authority and state drugs control directorate on Wednesday.

The plasma therapy is likely to begin from September 25.

Dhanbad Deputy Commissioner Uma Shankar Singh said, "The SOP for launching the plasma therapy is ready and the core advisory task force, coordinating task force, executing task force and antibody testing task force have also been constituted much earlier".

PMCH is the second centre after RIIMS, Ranchi to get the license in the state.

Comics, drawing books distributed among children at Covid centres

In a bid to encourage creative activities among children admitted to different Covid centres in Dhanbad, Shubh Sandesh is distributing comics and drawing books to them.

District Mineral Foundation Trust officer, Asha Rosaline Kujur said that the distribution programme began on September 18 and so far materials have been distributed among 17 children admitted in different treatment facilities.

"During teleconference the children show the painting made by to the doctors present in the Telemedicine studio and they in turn encourage them to further engage in creative activity," said Kajur.

Statement of rape victim recorded before magistrate

A former BCCL officer’s daughter who was raped by a family friend was recorded before the judicial magistrate of Dhanbad.on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the 32-year-old married woman had lodged an FIR against a coal trader named Badal Gautam. In her FIR, she said that Badal, a friend of her childhood friend, had raped her multiple times Delhi and Dhanbad when she was living in an accommodation by him.

The woman had left her husband’s house in Calcutta on July 11 due to complications in her marriage.

Robbery at photo studio

A camera, laptop, Rs 3000 cash and other articles were stolen from a photo studio by unidentified assailants in in Telipara locality on Tuesday night.

The owner, Vickey Kumar, reached the studio on Wednesday morning and found the front shutter gate broken. He has lodged a case against the assailants.