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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

Justice Pradip Kumar Mohanty took charge as the 11th chief justice of the Jharkhand high court. Governor Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office and secrecy to him read more

Four killed in shooting, one survives; Congress calls Dhanbad bandh on Thursday read more

Four killed in shooting, one survives; Congress calls Dhanbad bandh on Thursday read more

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It came as a shocker for Jharkhand high court chief justice P K Mohanty when a Ranchi resident sought judicial intervention to curb breeding of mosquitoes in the capital city. read more

At least a dozen Bihar bureaucrats have come in conflict with law, leading to many of them being jailed, as convicts or undertrials, others being suspended, many being absolved subsequently, while a few were even dismissed from service. read more

Ranchi’s holding tax by a minimum of 150% from the existing rate from April 1, 2016 read more

The high court asked the state government to keep intact Ranchi’s traffic and cleanliness management as it was during the twoday global investors’ summit - Momentum Jharkhand read more

At least `3 lakh crore worth of investment were pledged on the opening day of Jharkhand’s maiden Global Investment Summit read more

Ambassadors of various countries expressed their countrys’ intent to make direct investment in Jharkhand, an Indian state, which they feel, has old business links, in one or another form, with their countries. read more

The court’s order came on a PIL filed by one Sunil Oraon seeking judicial order to the government to fill various posts lying vacant in district consumer forums and the SCDRC read more

CM says 1.76 lakh hectares of land identified for industry in Jharkhand read more

The CBI on December 1, 2014, had submitted charge sheet against Bhuyian allegedly for amassing disproportionate assets (DA) to the tune of `1.25 crore read more

The case is the country’s first when an accused booked by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for committing offences under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2009 has been convicted and sentenced to jail read more

Earlier in July 2014, the apex court had stalled the ongoing CBI probe into the irregularities committed in these examinations read more

Former Congress minister is charged with running and promoting an extremist group--Jharkhand Tiger Group read more

The incident occurred during a shift change late on Thursday night. read more

Raghubar Das says land losers will get four times compensation within five months, asked congress why it failed to reach power to 30 lakh tribal households in 70 years. read more

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A kitchen employee of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) here was sacked for serving food on the floor to a mentally challenged patient undergoing treatment for a fractured arm. read more

Court takes cognisance of HT’s August 23 report highlighting how patients are forced to open umbrellas indoors due to seepage read more

TS Thakur emphasised the need for setting higher standards at the entry level in law colleges to make legal education qualitative read more

In a high-pitched drama hours before the Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand on Saturday, police arrested Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) legislator from Bishunpur, Chamra Linda, from a hospital in Ranchi. read more

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested CRPF deputy commandant Vineeta Kumari for allegedly managing recruitment of unfit candidates for the post of constables. Simultaneous raids were carried out at her residence and office in... read more

Delhi police revelations about an al-Qaeda training camp “somewhere in Jharkhand” has set alarm bells ringing in a state battling Left-wing extremist outfits in at least 16 out of 24 districts. read more

The Ranchi police on Thursday produced a Class 11 student of city-based Sapphire International School, his parents and sister before two different courts for the alleged murder of Vinay Kumar Mahto, a 12-year-old boy of the same school on February 5. read more

Jharkhand’s former chief minister Madhu Koda has alleged that he received an extortion call from Odisha on the night of January 9, with the caller threatening to kidnap his daughter unless a sum of Rs 20 lakh was paid. read more

Jharkhand’s former chief minister Madhu Koda has alleged that he received an extortion call from Odisha on the night of January 9, with the caller threatening to kidnap his daughter unless a sum of Rs 20 lakh was paid. read more

A private school in Jharkhand state capital Ranchi is in trouble for its offer of a preferential admission and fee waiver to single girl child but with a baffling rider that their parents must promise not to have another child. read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday upheld his government’s pledge to cut intensity of carbon emissions by up to 35%, calling it India’s “contribution to humanity.” read more

The Jharkhand high court pumped adrenaline into the nine-year-old rape victim’s case by sacking the sub-inspector-rank investigating officer for tardy pace of probe and directing the government to hand over the case to an officer not below the rank of... read more