Ranchi: Aadhaar will be mandatory as proof during land deals in Jharkhand from January 1 2014, an official release said on Tuesday. The decision was taken to bring in transparency in the sale/purchase of land and prevention of registering the same land more than once, the release said quoting Chief Secretary RS Sharma. Now onwards land could be registered showing Aadhaar or other relevant documents, but from January 1, 2014...
12:56:57 AM May 22, 2013
Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday granted provisional bail to scam accused and former Chief Minister Madhu Koda for a week to attend his ailing mother. Hearing on the provisional bail petition, Justice HC Mishra granted bail with a direction that he should surrender to a lower court on the eighth day from his release from the judicial custody. This is the second provisional bail granted to Koda in...
02:44:57 PM May 14, 2013
Jamshedpur: At least two Maoists were killed and three jawans got injured in an encounter between the ultras and the security forces in a forest in Seraikela-Kharswan district in Jharkhand, police said on Tuesday. Earlier police had said one Maoist was killed and two jawans were injured in the encounter on Monday. "At least two Maoists were killed while three jawans suffered injury in the encounter that lasted over one...
02:21:46 PM May 14, 2013
Jharkhand: One Maoist was killed and two security men were injured on Monday in an encounter in Jharkhand. Police officials said they received a tip-off that Maoists were about to assemble in the forest whereupon the police, COBRA and CRPF forces rushed to the spot. The Maoists fired on seeing the personnel, triggering a gun fight. The encounter took place in a forest between Kalerango and Chatnibeda villages under naxal-affected...
07:29:59 AM May 14, 2013
Ranchi: A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 14-year-old step-daughter for the last seven months, police said on Monday. A woman neighbour helped the police in arresting accused Mahendra Sonar. Sonar was married to a woman in Giridih. He later came in contact with a divorced woman in Ranchi and fathered two children -- a three-year-old boy and six-month old daughter, they said. The accused allegedly raped the...
12:40:40 AM May 07, 2013
Ranchi: Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday quashed the criminal proceedings instituted against journalist Priyabhansu Ranjan in connection with his journalist girl friend Nirupama Pathak's death in Kodarma three years ago. Quashing the petition filed by Nirupama's family accusing Ranjan of aid, abetment and instigation of her alleged suicide, the single bench of Justice RR Prasad observed that continuing of criminal proceedings against Ranjan would be an abuse of the process...
06:13:05 PM Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: An encounter between security forces and Naxals in Latehar in Jharkhand which began on Monday morning has ended. Search operations have been launched by security forces to track the rebels. Latehar SP Kranthi Kumar Gadidesi said three dead bodies of men in uniform have also been recovered. The security forces also recovered one INSAS rifle, three 315 rifles and one walkie talkie from the site of encounter. More...
02:04:56 PM Apr 29, 2013
Ranchi: A five-year-old girl was raped and murdered in the Jharkhand capital, police said on Thursday. "Post mortem report has confirmed that the girl was raped and strangulated to death," Superintendent of Police Manoj Ratan told PTI in Ranchi. Her body was found in an under construction building near her house at Darjie Mohallah in Doranda police station in Ranchi on Thursday morning, the SP said, adding, whoever had committed...
12:26:04 AM Apr 26, 2013
Chatra: A 19-year-old tribal woman was allegedly gangraped by three persons in Chatra district, police sources said on Sunday. The 19-year-old married tribal woman had come to witness the Ramnavmi procession on Friday in Chatra town when she was abducted by three youths who later allegedly gangraped her, Superintendent of Police Arun Birthery said. The SP said two persons have been arrested in this connection after a FIR was lodged...
02:16:18 PM Apr 21, 2013
Ranchi: A school near Jharkhand's capital Ranchi has changed its uniform's colour from sky blue to red to ensure that the children are not crushed by a train when they cross the railway tracks while going to or returning from the school. The residents of Angada also say that now the children will be safe while crossing the railway track. In fact the parents had forced to school to change...
01:54:39 PM Apr 17, 2013
Hazaribagh: Seven officers, undergoing training at the Police Training Centre of Padma in Hazaribagh district, were suspended for allegedly attempting to molest women passengers on a bus, police said on Monday. The seven accused were suspended by Superintendent of Police (Padma) Madan Mohan Lall after the bus passengers handed them over to the police on Sunday following the incident, Officer-in-charge of the Ichak Police Station Ravi Shankar Singh told reporters...
12:14:46 AM Apr 16, 2013
Pakur: A team of Anti-terrorism Squad (ATS) on Friday took the headmaster of a school in Pakur district on transit remand in connection with a fake currency case that was registered in Gujarat five years ago. Mohammad Zaheer-ud-din Ansari, the headmaster of Hitesh Nagar Upgraded Middle School in the district, was produced before the chief judicial magistrate by the ATS. The court granted the plea of the ATS to take...
12:29:45 AM Apr 13, 2013
Jamshedpur: Adequate uranium reserves have been proved for India's nuclear power programme and the future belonged to mineralisation of poor grade uranium ore, according to the country's nuclear experts. Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) Diwakar Acharya said environment-friendly mining activities for fuel and metal will have to be introduced in the country in view of the increasing demand. He was speaking at a five-day International Atomic...
05:05:48 PM Apr 08, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has been carrying out raids in Ranchi in connection with the alleged cash-for-vote scam during the 2010 Rajya Sabha elections, continued its raids for the second day. CBI sources said houses of 11 MLAs have been raided and the investigative agency has seized important case-related material from their houses. ...
02:32:26 PM Apr 05, 2013
Five policemen were killed on Thursday in a gun battle with Maoist guerrillas in Jharkhand, police said. ...
03:15:42 AM Apr 05, 2013
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