Former top cop K Vijay Kumar, who was pulled out of his retirement job as an adviser to the Jharkhand governor to help the home ministry strategise an effective counteraction plan to tackle Naxalism, shared his insight into the problem in an interview with
HT last week.
Three women have been lynched by villagers in separate incidents in Gumla district. 22 persons, including 19 women, were today arrested after being accused of perpetrating the crime.
A man was beaten to death by his friend and some others when he protested molestation of his sister-in-law in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur district, police said today.
The CBI on Tuesday revealed that the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) legislator Sita Soren had received Rs. 1.5 crore from an independent contestant, RK Agarwal, of countermanded 2012 Rajya Sabha polls to cast her vote in his favour.
The CBI on Tuesday filed chargesheet against six persons, including an MLA and two industrialists, in the horse trading case that forced Election Commission of India to hold Rajya Sabha elections afresh after scraping its original poll notification in 2012.
Two former legislators - RK Ranaand Dhruv Bhagat - were today sentenced to five years imprisonment by a special CBI court in Ranchi in the fodder scam case.
Getting murkier by minutes, Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) was on boil on Tuesday over sudden popping up of about 50 lady voters in the voting list finally issued after much demands and complaints.
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CPI-Maoists through posters have warned criminal groups and splinter outfits not to lift levy claiming to be Naxals in Ramgarh district. HT reports.
A 20-year-old bride from Giridih district of Jharkhand walked out of the wedding mandap in a huff halfway through the rituals once she discovered that the groom was drunk.
Pravin Kumar Mishra reports.
The court of principal judicial commissioner today awarded life imprisonment to Congress MLA Sawna Lakra (70) and three others in a case of kidnapping and murder of a youth.
An encounter was on between security personnel and Maoists in a forest in Seraikela-Kharswan district of Jharkhand.
Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda surrendered in a Ranchi court today and was sent to 14 days' judicial custody. He was on three weeks provisional bail that ended a day before.
A senior constable was arrested in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on charges of trying to sacrifice two girls, police said today.
Jharkhand administration resorts to age-old policy of unleashing pretenders to tackle Maoists.
B Vijay Murty reports.
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