Jharkhand's all 21 legislators from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday submitted their resignations from the assembly to state unit chief Raghubar Das, as part of the party's demand for early assembly polls.
Maoists blew up two mobile towers in Gaya district and set afire four vehicles at Tilhautu in Bihar's Rohtas district as the 48-hour shut down called by them ended last night in five states.
The Jharkhand government suspended a senior Indian Administrative Service officer on corruption charges, officials said.
A special CBI court today convicted 42 persons in a case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 13.69 crore from the Gumla Treasury by submitting fake invoices in the 1990s.
Ranchi Police confirmed that they have arrested two top Maoist leaders. The Communist Party of India-Maoist had called a two-day shutdown in five states to demand the release of the two leaders.
Maoist rebels blasted a mobile phone tower and set four trucks on fire in Jharkhand, police said on Tuesday.
Seven Maoists have been arrested from separate places in Ranchi and Khunti districts and arms and ammunition recovered from them, including 1100 cartridges, police said on Monday.
Maoists blew up a railway track in Latehar, about an hour after the Rajdhani Express crossed the stretch, and bombed a mobile tower in neighbouring Palamu district during a 48-hour bandh called by them in five states, including Jharkhand.
Six people have died in the last three days after being bitten by a hyena in a village on the outskirts of this Jharkhand capital, an official said in Ranchi on Saturday.
Three people were arrested in Ranchi on Saturday with 460 grams of heroin worth Rs.5 million, police said.
Four policemen, including an assistant sub inspector, who were killed in a naxal attack on a police patrol at Sonobazar in Jamui district on Saturday would get a compensation of Rs. 10 lakh each, police said on Sunday.
Two people have been arrested while transporting 210 kg of ammonium nitrate in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district, police said.
Maoist rebels set six bauxite-laden trucks on fire in Gumla district of Jharkhand, police said.
Maoists have abducted eight persons including employees of HINDALCO Bauxite Mining Company and set vehicles and mining equipment on fire in this district, police said on Tuesday.
Police on Friday arrested about 100 members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of BJP in the Chhattisgarh capital for protesting Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's visit to the university.