Police recovered 40 landmines and destroyed two Maoist bunkers-cum-training centres in Jharkhand's Garwah district on Wednesday.
In the first major attack since the November killing of top Maoist leader Koteswar Rao or Kishenji, 13 policemen were killed in two landmine blasts triggered by Maoists in Jharkhand on Saturday.
A special CBI court today convicted 64 accused, including 32 officials, in a multi-crore fodder scam pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 12.98 crore from Doranda Treasury within three months in 1995.
A day after the Congress accused the RSS of stage managing the ink-throw incident against yoga guru Ramdev, Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Sunday claimed that the person apprehended has links with Congress and had contested municipal elections as a party candidate.
Jharkhand lost 50% of its forest cover to illegal logging in the last 10 years. Muturkham forest was no exception, till Jamuna Tuddu arrived on the scene.
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Jharkhand Police on Wednesday afternoon recovered mutilated bodies of seven people aged between 20 to 40 years from Murhu — a highly Naxal-affected area in Khunti district —around 52 km south of capital Ranchi.
Five persons were killed and nine others, including a child, injured in a collision between the Delhi-bound Brahmaputra Mail and a stationary goods train, about 25km from Sahibganj in Jharkhand.
VideoJMM president Sibu Soren appeared at a local court on Tuesday in connection with a case of violation of the model code of conduct in the 1999 general election.
Three persons were detained here in connection with a threat e-mail to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Delhi Police Commissioner B K Gupta recently, police said in Hazaribagh today.
A couple of bombs exploded today in the premises of Rajmahal Civil Court, about 35 km from here, the police said.
It was 2.30am and CM Joseph aka Naomi was fast asleep in the air-conditioned B1 coach of the Howrah-Dehradun Express when terrified wails rent the quiet.
Railway police and forensic experts launched a probe on Wednesday to ascertain the cause of the fire that engulfed two AC coaches of the Howrah-Dehradun Express on Tuesday. Seven passengers, including an Australian woman, were killed in the mishap. One of them is yet to be identified.
A local JMM leader was shot dead on Monday by unidentified gunmen in his residence at Bhatmurna More, about 22 km from Dhanbad town in Jharkhand, the police said.
Seven policemen and two civilians were killed in an encounter followed by a land mine explosion in Jharkhand's Naxal-infested Latehar district on Saturday. Four other policemen were injured in the attack.
Maoists attacked a police picket in Palamau district today, triggering a gun battle during the two-day Bharat bandh, the police said in Medininagar.