Jamshedpur: India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Ranchi centre on Sunday sounded a rain alert in Jharkhand this mid-week, due to the impact of a fresh western disturbance brewing in the northern parts of the country.

Head of Ranchi Met Centre, Abhishek Anand said, "A fresh western disturbance is brewing over northwest India and this would impact Jharkhand's weather on February 9 and 10 (Wednesday and Thursday ), resulting in light to moderate rain especially in northern and central Jharkhand."

According to him, the western disturbance will result in formation of an induced cyclonic circulation which in turn would trigger thunderstorm activity and rain in different parts of the state.

Meanwhile, dry weather prevailed over Jharkhand during the past 48 hours with dominating north-westerly currents which resulted in an abrupt fall in minimum readings.

Sub-10 cold prevailed in most districts on Sunday . The lowest minimum temperature of 7.9°C was recorded at Garhwa. State capital Ranchi on Sunday recorded a minimum temperature of 8.3 °C while Jamshedpur recorded 10.2 °C. Daltonganj, Giridih, Bokaro, Deoghar , Koderma and several other places minimum reading below 9°C.

Met statistics revealed that the minimum reading witnessed a downward trend in several other districts during the past 24-hours.

Pinaki Mazumdar

Book and uniform sellers in upbeat mood over school reopening

Parents purchasing school uniforms for their kids at Park Market in Hirapur, Dhanbad Gautam Dey

Dhanbad: Book sellers and uniform sellers of coal town are in upbeat mood over the reopening of schools after a gap of more than two years.

Stocking of consignment of books for the new session has already been launched by the over 500 booksellers across the district, while over 20 union sellers have already started some brisk business over witnessing the lull of two years.

Talking to the The Telegraph Online on Sunday, Rana Ghosh, owner of Uniform House, a renowned school uniform retailer of Dhanbad, “Our business was almost dead since the last two years due to closure of schools but with reopening of the schools we have started witnessing a lot of queries.”

“Though, the business was more or less around 50 % during 2020 as the lockdown came into force on March 22, until which sessions had started in many of schools and particularly in the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) affiliated schools but the we suffered the greatest loss during 2021 as school didn’t open in for the long period of time,” said Ghosh adding even in many of the schools the examinations are still scheduled in online mode but they are witnessing customer footfall for the other schools which have started off line classes.

Praduman Choubey