The Bharatiya Janata Party demanded a special package from the central government today, a day after Jharkhand was declared drought-hit.
A Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing leader has been shot dead by unidentified assailants in Ranchi, police said today.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday filed graft cases against senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official who had served as an aide to former Jharkhand governor Syed Sibte Razi.
Congress on Wednesday demanded a special package for drought-hit Jharkhand and called for effective implementation of welfare schemes in the state.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Saturday sentenced R K Rana, a former MP of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), to five years in jail in a case of the multi-million rupee fodder scam.
Maoists, who have called a two-day Jharkhand bandh in protest against price hike of essential commodities, set a truck on fire and damaged a large number of auto-rickshaws on its second day of agitation, police said.
Electronic gadgets and furniture in Orissa secretariat building were damaged in a fire on thursday, official sources said.
Mangalkot is simmering. Marxist cadres have driven out all Congress supporters from Dhanyarukhi, a village in Bardhaman district’s Mangalkot assembly constituency.
Kateekal Sankaranarayanan took oath on Sunday, as the governor of Jharkhand which is under President's rule. Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court, Gyan Sudha Mishra, administered the oath of office at Raj Bhavan in Ranchi.
Kateekal Sankaranarayanan was sworn in as governor of Jharkhand at a ceremony at the Raj Bhavan in Ranchi on Sunday.
It’s really easy to find, actually. The Jharkhand village where Deepali Mahato (26) had to deliver her baby on the road — there was no hospital for 60 kilometres and barely any road — lies in the one-fourth of India that lives under insurgency.
It is also in the richest part of the nation, one that holds the key to India’s economic progress.
“She could not bear the bumpy ride in a jeep and delivered on the road, with the help of a midwife,” says Deepali’s husband Ranjit, a 31-year-old daily wage labourer in Gudabanda village, 230 kilometres south-east of the state capital of Ranchi.
Around 30 students were forced to stand outside their school in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand even as their examination was underway on Tuesday because their parents had failed to pay the monthly fees, an official said.
Jharkhand BJP president Raghuvar Das on Wednesday demanded that the state be declared "drought-hit" immediately and relief operations begin at the earliest.
A ‘couple’ from Palaboni village in Jharkhand was fined Rs. 25,000 by the village panchayat after they were found guilty of having an illicit relationship.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) finally admitted weeding out degenerated leaders, rectifying mistakes, and working for the poor was the way to win back the masses.