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Lalu Prasad Yadav has been in custody since December 23, 2017, after his conviction in three different cases related to the fodder scam one after another. Prasad had moved the Jharkhand high court seeking bail in all the cases. read more

The bench of justice Aparesh Kumar Singh reserved the order after hearing the arguments of Prasad’s lawyer Kapil Sibal and CBI’s counsel Rajiv Sinha. read more

The bench of justice S Chandrashekhar also questioned the legality of an advertisement issued in 2017 for teachers’ recruitment in government-owned high schools as it followed the reservation criteria mentioned in the employment policy read more

Prasad pleaded that being the president of his party, he was the only person authorised to select candidates for different parliamentary constituencies read more

Rinku Bhakat, who hails from Ranchi and in her forties, will join the saffron party with her supporters at the BJP state headquarters here at 11 am on November 25 in the presence of party’s state president Laxman Gilua. read more

Jharkhand minister Saryu Roy, who levelled corruption charges against Prasad during his tenure as Bihar chief minister, has written a letter to the Jharkhand chief secretary on November 20 stating that the RJD chief was suffering from 11 diseases and... read more

According to police, 12 ultras were killed in an encounter between Maoists and security forces at Bakoria in Satbarwa block of Palamu district on June 8, 2015. read more

It was alleged that 12 innocent people were killed in a ‘fake encounter’ between Maoists and security forces at Bakoria in Palamu district on June 8, 2015. read more

The case relates to the killing of the then Pakur superintendent of police Amarjit Balihar and five other policemen in 2013 when Maoists ambushed a police convoy in Dumka’s Kathikund area. read more

Lalu Prasad had moved the court for a third extension of provisional bail for continuing treatment at a super-specialty hospital in Mumbai. read more

On August 8, 2015, a village mob in Ranchi district had hacked five women to death after branding them witches. read more

The Pathalgadi, having its origin in resistance movement by tribals during British rule, is a practice of raising huge stone plaques at village outskirts with warnings to outsiders not to enter and declaring gram sabha, the only sovereign authority. read more

Hazaribagh’s well known family, engaged in wholesale business of dry fruits, were residing at flat number 303 on the third floor of the four-storied CDM Shubham Apartment near Khajanchi Talab in the city. read more

Ekka was accused of hatching a conspiracy with members of banned outfit People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) to kill para-teacher Manoj Kumar on November 27, 2014. read more

Enos Ekka was accused of hatching a conspiracy with members of banned outfit People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) to kill para-teacher Manoj Kumar. read more

A special fast track court in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district, in a record six-month time, on March 16 convicted 11 accused. Five days later, it sentenced them to life imprisonment. read more

The policemen were allegedly abducted in retaliation for a police crackdown conducted in connection with the gang rape of five anti-human trafficking activists 10 days ago. read more

Three house guards of former deputy speaker of Lok Sabha Karia Munda were abducted on June 26 by Pathalgadi supporters in retaliation to the police crackdown on their leaders who were the ‘masterminds’ behind the gangrape of five women anti-human trafficking... read more

A petition filed by the RJD leader sought a two-month extension of his bail period because he was yet to recover completely. Prasad is currently undergoing treatment at the Asean Heart Institute in Mumbai. read more

Police used batons to disperse Pathalgadi supporters during the search operation related to the kidnapping of three policemen in Jharkhand’s Khunti district. read more

The guards at Khunti MP Karia Munda’s house were kidnapped hours after a police raid on Udbhuru village to arrest two leaders accused of masterminding the gangrape of 5 women activists. read more

The accused confessed to having raped the women, video-graphed the entire act and forcing the victims to drink urine. read more

Father Aien of the RC Mission School was questioned for not informing police about the abduction of the five women and their subsequent rape. The women were abducted while performing a street play. read more

Lalu Prasad urged the court to extend his bail period saying his health condition has not improved. read more

The survivors, engaged with an NGO supported by Christian missionary, were abducted by motorcycle-borne armed men while they were performing a street play at RC Mission School in Khunti’s Kochang block. read more

Jharkhand 12th science and commerce result 2018: The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) announced the intermediate or Class 12 science and commerce examinations results on Thursday, June 7. read more

JAC 12th result 2018: The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) announced the intermediate or Class 12 science and commerce examinations results today. read more

JAC 12th result 2018: The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) announced the intermediate or Class 12 science and commerce examinations results on Thursday. read more

The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) announced the result of intermediate or Class 12 science and commerce examinations on Thursday. read more

Police suspect the man committed suicide. However, no suicide note was recovered from the spot. read more

Media reports had earlier claimed that Lalu was granted parole to attend his son Tej Pratap Yadav’s marriage in Patna on May 12. read more

Lalu’s aide Bhola Yadav, said an application for parole has been submitted before jail authorities on Tuesday read more

A CBI court last week convicted RJD chief Lalu Prasad and 18 others in the case related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.76 crore from Dumka treasury between December 1995 and January 1996. read more

Amit Mahto and seven others were charged with assaulting the then Sonahatu circle officer during a JMM procession on June 28, 2006. They allegedly tied the police officer to his chair and repeatedly thrashed him with an iron rod. read more

Muslim trader Alimuddin Ansari aka Asgar Ali was lynched by a mob on June 29 at Bazartand in Ramgarh for allegedly transporting beef. read more

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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad had already been convicted in three fodder cases while Jagannath Mishra was convicted in two fodder cases. read more

RJD chief Lalu Prasad had already been convicted in three fodder cases while former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra was convicted in two fodder cases. read more

A 100-strong mob last year lynched Alimuddin alias Asgar Ali, a 45-year-old Muslim trader, on the suspicion that he was carrying beef in his car. read more

I-T dept has initiated action to augment tax collection and issued notices to 10,000 individuals who deposited over Rs 10 lakh, post demonetisation read more

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has already been convicted in two fodder scam cases in 2013 and 2017 and got 5 and 3.5 years of imprisonment respectively. read more

Shivpal Singh sent Lalu Prasad on January 6 to three-and-a-half-years of imprisonment. read more

Lalu Prasad will have to face bigger challenges this year as the pending cases against him in the fodder scam are fast heading towards finality read more

Ranchi In a major reprieve to Congress leader Manish Tiwari, the Jharkhand high court on Friday stayed the “contempt of court” notice issued by special CBI court, read more

Prasad has instructed his lawyer to move the high court only after January 14 to file the appeal-cum-bail petition. read more

The RJD chief said sending him to open jail would need deployment of entire police force to control crowd. read more

Mahto and Yadav, who were reportedly charged with minor offences, were claimed to be serving Prasad as helper and cook. read more

This is the second fodder scam case in which RJD chief Lalu Prasad has been convicted. read more

RJD chief Lalu Prasad has been convicted in a case in the fodder scam, wherein Rs 900 crore from the Bihar exchequer was siphoned off under the pretext of purchasing fodder for livestock. read more

The court had convicted Lalu Prasad for offences of cheating with criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act. read more

The special court was scheduled to pronounce the quantum of sentence for jailed former Bihar chief minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad and 15 others on Wednesday. read more

After Lalu Prasad’s conviction in a fodder scam case, RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said the party will challenge the verdict in the Jharkhand high court. read more

A special CBI court held RJD chief Lalu Prasad guilty in a fodder scam case. Quantum of punishment will be pronoucned on January 3, 2018. Here are the updates. read more

RJD chief Lalu Prasad arrived in Jharkhand capital Ranchi where a special CBI court will pronounce a verdict on Saturday in a case related to the Bihar fodder scam. read more

A special CBI court found former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and former coal secretary HC Gupta guilty of corruption and other charges in a coal scam case. read more

Tilaiya Public School principal S Xavier alias Francis Xavier, a resident of Jheel Garden, Kolkata, confessed to the crime. read more

The petitioner claimed Akhtar’s remark was a deliberate attempt to provoke the sentiments of a particular community in order to disturb the country’s peace and harmony. read more

The RIMS hospital in Jharkhand has preserved the foetus for conducting DNA test in the rape case. read more

Considering the urgency of the matter, the bench of justice Rongon Mukhopadyay held court on Sunday (holiday) from 6pm to 8pm at courtroom number 4 of the high court to pass the order. read more

The Jharkhand high court on Saturday put on hold an abortion plea of a minor rape survivor, questioning the degree of risk involved in the termination of the foetus read more

The accused were part of a 350-strong mob that attacked a Hindu marriage party near a mosque at a Muslim-dominated locality in Ranchi. Eight people – including a five-year-old girl – were injured in the incident. read more

The Election Commission of India has debarred former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda from contesting elections for three years charging him with submitting a false account of poll expenses during 2009 general elections. read more

A 19-year-old tribal girl travelling with her boyfriend was allegedly gang-raped and assaulted by at least eight men in Dumka district on September 6 read more

CBI also files charge sheet against 14 accused. It had arrested Ranchi’s principal commissioner of income tax Tapas Kumar Dutta in July, seized Rs 3.7 crore cash, 6.6 kg gold and sale deed of a flat worth Rs 4 crore read more

A 19-year-old tribal girl travelling with her boyfriend was allegedly gang-raped and assaulted by at least eight men in Dumka district, about 320 km from the state capital. read more

Taking cognizance of large number of child deaths in three hospitals, court has sought reply from the Raghubar Das government. read more

The priest incorporated a clause in the new deed that permits conversion and transfer of trust’s property for construction of flats. He obtained the mandatory permission from the Jharkhand State Hindu Religious Trust Board for conversion\/transfer\/sale... read more

A frenzied mob on June 29 lynched a Muslim trader allegedly for carrying beef read more

The six men were arrested in June for allegedly attacking a wedding procession in Ranchi that left eight people injured. read more

Judge Shivpal Singh refused to record the statement of witness Sunil Kumar for being produced a week before the fixed date. The judge had also questioned Kumar about his caste, Lalu’s lawyer Prabhat Kumar said. read more

Lalu Prasad produced RJD’s Banka MP Jai Prakash Narain Yadav as a witness to prove that the then Bihar governor had acted against the constitutional spirit to grant prosecution sanction against Prasad in 1997. read more

CBI arrested Dutta in Ranchi and produced him before a special CBI court , which took him under judicial custody. The court allowed the agency to take Dutta under its custody for four days for further interrogation. read more

CBI carried out searches on the premises of principal commissioner, income tax, Ranchi, Tapas Kumar Dutta, additional commissioner Arvind Kumar and other I-T officials. Besides raids were also conducted on the premises of five Kolkata based businessmen... read more

After appearing in a CBI special court in Ranchi, on Friday, the RJD chief told reporters the BJP and RSS were trying to implicate him and his family in false cases and put them in jail before the 2019 Lok Sabha poll. read more

The CBI raided premises of former railway minister Lalu Prasad and his family over corruption charges in awarding a tender for maintenance of IRCTC hotels in Ranchi and Puri in 2006. read more

Mahto, who is the BJP’s Ramgarh district media in-charge, claimed innocence, saying he had visited the spot after the police arrived to take stock of the incident. read more

BJP candidates Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Mahesh Poddar bagged the two Rajya Sabha seats from Jharkhand, election for which was held on June 11 last year. read more

The police said it was premeditated murder, some people involved in beef trade hatched a conspiracy to kill him. read more

The RJD chief had sought exemption from court appearances in a fodder scam case because he was busy preparing for the July 17 electoral contest. read more

The incident is the latest in a string of attacks, largely against Muslim and Dalits, reported from across the country in the name of cow protection. read more

The man was trying to break her fight with his son over losing a cockfight at a village fair in Jharkhand’s Gumla district. read more

Prasad appeared in person before the court of special judge Shivpal Singh on Thursday and submitted a list of 36 defence witnesses. He urged the court to allow him to examine these witnesses to prove his innocence. Examination of defence witnesses is... read more

Additional director general (ADG) of police Anurag Gupta and Jharkhand chief minister’s political advisor Ajay Kumar are accused of adopting corrupt practices to influence 2016 Rajya Sabha biennial polls. read more

Advocates’ association of Jharkhand high court has submitted a petition, signed by as many as 50 practicing lawyers, to the state bar council deprecating the court’s order recalling PAG’s audit into accounts of state legal services authority, judicial... read more

Jharkhand high court had ordered principal accountant general to audit the accounts of three institutions which were charged with misusing public funds read more

Court move in keeping with Supreme Court ruling that said RJD chief must face trial on all charges in the remaining fodder scam cases read more

Of late, the high court has come across many instances when senior government officers appeared before the court in casual dress, undermining the majesty of law read more

The CBI had booked RJD chief Lalu Prasad in 1996 in six fodder scam cases related to fraudulent withdrawal of animal husbandry department (AHD) funds from different government treasuries during 1990-1995. read more

Lawyer Sikarwar alleged that Pahan, who owns 2,600 acres of land, was an accused in as many as 128 criminal cases, 77 of them being murders read more

The apex court on Monday reinstated criminal conspiracy charge against Lalu Prasad in a fodder scam case RC 64 (A)\/96 related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 90 lakh from Jharkhand’s Deoghar treasury and asked the CBI to complete the trial within a period... read more

The apex court on Monday set aside the Jharkhand high court order quashing the criminal proceedings initiated against Chakroborty in two separate fodder scam cases. read more

The Supreme Court reinstated on Monday criminal conspiracy charges against Lalu Prasad in a fodder scam case, and said that the former Bihar chief minister will be tried in each of the five remaining cases against him. read more

HC pulls up government for rejecting the proposal to make mandatory provision for litigants to affix a Rs 5 stamp on each petition so that money generated from the sale of stamps could be utilised for the welfare of advocates’ clerk read more

A marine engineer, Saddam Hussain, 25, is suffering for the last two years for carrying the name of former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein. Hussain claims he has failed to find a job because of his namesake. read more

The state government had invoked provisions of the Jharkhand Crime Control Act against Sao taking him under preventive detention. The state advisory board too had approved Sao’s detention till April 18. read more

Ranchi a land dispute of 1951 was resolved in less than a year when the court referred the matter for mediation read more

The Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) said that the corporation has only 11 auto-mounted fogging machines, which are not enough to carry out daily fogging in all 55 wards read more

Among the 32 tribes in Jharkhand, nine have been recognised as PVTGs. These tribal groups are Asur, Birhor, Hill Kharia, Birajia, Korwa, Parahiya (Baiga), Sabar, Mal Pahariya and Souriya Pahariya constituting a population of 2.23 lakh out of the total... read more

“Forget demonetisation, I will keep taking tough actions, one after another, to get rid of these termites who resurface at new places every time their holes are plugged,” Modi said read more