Maoists have blown up Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MP and former rebel leader Kameshwar Baitha's ancestral house in Palamau district in Jharkhand, police said today.
Maoist guerrillas killed five people suspecting them to be members of a rival rebel group in Jharkhand's Gumla district, police said today.
One policeman was injured in the gun fight with the Maoists after the rebels attacked the camp of a road construction company and burnt 30 vehicles and equipments worth around Rs. 30 crore at Morandi, about eight km from here, police said in Hazaribagh on Sunday.
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Ranchi, on Thursday sentenced inspector general (IG) of police Nirmal Choudhary to 15 days' simple imprisonment for intimidating a judicial member of CAT in 2008.
The 48-hour bandh called by Maoists has evoked mixed response in Kolhan region, comprising East and West Singhbhum and Saraikela-Kharswan districts of the state.
Sawna Lakra (70), a Jharkhand-based Congress legislator was on Tuesday sent to jail after he surrendered before a local court in connection with the alleged honour killing (murder) of a student, Avinash Tiwari, 21.
Police in Jharkhand have arrested one Khudu Karmkar, 50, resident of remote Sawalapur village in Sahebganj district’s Taljhari police station area, around 500 km north east of capital Ranchi on Friday evening for human sacrifice.
In a suspected honour killing, a man was stoned to death allegedly by his girlfriend’s father and brothers in a Jharkhand village on Tuesday night. B Vijay Murty reports.
Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, who is in jail in a graft case, allegedly waived off Rs. 10 crore electricity bill of a private cement factory which was owned by one his close associates, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) source said Friday.
Anupam Ujwal Tiru, an IOCL employee was found dead in the Panipat based refinery’s chemical disposal pond, mother has lodged FIR suspecting foul play.
Team India skipper Mahindra Singh Dhoni may soon become the brand ambassador of Jharkhand's Save Tiger Project.
Security personnel have for the first time recovered four rocket launchers from a Maoist hideout in Jharkhand's Latehar district, police said on Tuesday.
A woman, accused of practising black magic, was killed and her body cut up, roasted and eaten by her murderers in Jharkhand's Gumla district, police said today.
A "grave yard" of the CPI (Maoist) has been recently traced in the forests of Khunti district, but their bodies would not be exhumed to ascertain how many of the rebels had died during encounters with security forces, a top Jharkhand police officer said on Sunday.
Unemployed youth in Jharkhand’s Garhwa district have found a unique way of demanding work — digging up roads and arm-twisting contractors for the repair jobs.
B Vijay Murty reports.
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