ers and superintendents of police to maintain sufficient stock of oil for the election period. District chiefs are scheduled to design a strategy with petrol pump owners ahead of the election.

g in five Assembly segments ? Chaibasa, Jagannathpur, Chakradharpur, Manjhgoan and Manoharpur ?is scheduled for February 15.

d State Cricket Association (JSCA) announced the team for the under-22 C.K. Nayudu trophy on Friday. The 15-member team, for the first two matches against Orissa and Sikkim, is led by Ranji-discard Mohit Goyal. The team also includes Sandeep Vig, Amit Kumar Singh, Atul Priyanka, Keshav Kumar, NJ Prakash, Ravish Kumar, Anitesh Kumar, Abhay Ranjan, Abdul Hanif Khan, Manoj Kumar, Rajesh Jha, Sujit Rai, Kumar Amit and Anupam Kumar.

ts killed two villagers in Gola, Ramgarh subdivision, on Thursday, police said. The victims have been identified as Buddhu Karmali of Purabdih and Jaibunisha of Sangrampur. Villagers blocked the Gola-Muri road on Friday morning demand compensation for the victims? families. The police have sent the bodies for post-mortem.

eral of Mines Safety celebrated its 104th foundation day in Dhanbad on Friday. Director of Indian School of Mines S.N. Mukherjee was the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, director-general Bhaskar Bhattacharya said DGMS aims at reducing the risk of occupational diseases and casualty to people employed in mines by drafting appropriate laws and setting safety standards through awareness programmes. DGMS was set up in Calcutta on January 7 in 1902 and was then called the Bureau of Mines Inspection in Calcutta. Its office was shifted to Dhanbad in 1908 and was rechristened DGMS.

and Marg Pracharak Sangh kicked off a three-day Dharma Mahasangha on Friday at its headquarters in Anand Nagar near Pundag in Purulia district in West Bengal to celebrate its golden jubilee year.

ternational (district 3250) and Titan Industries, for girting Jamshedpur its first clock tower.