Hemant’s sudden rush to Delhi fans speculation about revival of JMM-Cong tie-up.
The Rajya Sabha election for two seats in Jharkhand reached the flash point on Thursday with the unexpected turn of events - withdrawal of nomination by NRI businessman and independent candidate Anshuman Mishra and Congress coaxing the JMM to sever ties with alliance partner BJP over the latter's decision to abstain from voting.
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s tacit support to Independent candidate Anshuman Mishra’s Rajya Sabha nomination from Jharkhand — by sidelining SS Ahluwalia — has triggered a rift between party heavyweights.
A suspected terrorist who was arrested in Jharkhand and on whose tip off two more terrorists were arrested in the national capital, will be handed over to Delhi Police, an officer said today.
The arrest of two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) suspects, allegedly owning allegiance to the outfit's module busted in Delhi on Wednesday, has once again exposed Jharkhand's vulnerability as a potential terrorist breeding centre. The duo, both of Kashmiri origin and in their early 20s, had been staying in Jharkhand for the past couple of years.
The villagers of Nakraganj, a remote area of Jharkhand, have collectively banned hooch, curbed crime and raised the literacy bar. But it all began when they first got together to build a bridge.
Vijay Murty reports.
Maoists fired indiscriminately at a police station in Jharkhand's Latehar district in the wee hours today, leaving a man dead.
Tribal youth aspiring to display their cultural faculty at the proposed Tribal Youth cultural exchange festivals at Bangalore and Kolkata, would require the security clearance from the deputy commissioners (DC) and superintendents of police (SP) of their concerned districts.
Dhanbad deputy mayor has exposed documents that say Mahto and family has 18 plots of land in Dhanbad district alone, minister claims allegations baseless, dares Singh to drag him to court.
Two former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra appeared in a CBI court in Ranchi today to record their statements in a case related to the multi-million rupee fodder scam in which funds meant for buying cattle feed were embezzled in undivided Bihar.
Police recovered 40 landmines and destroyed two Maoist bunkers-cum-training centres in Jharkhand's Garwah district on Wednesday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
B Vijay Murty reports.