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 PM, Apr 17, 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 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Hazaribagh: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Thursday appealed to the people of Jharkhand not to vote for regional parties if they wished to have a stable government in the state, now under President's rule. "Give majority votes to a single party and it should be a national party and not Jharkhand regional parties, if they (people) like to see development and stability," he told a party meeting at Barkatha...
02:27 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Ranchi: 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. On Thursday, raids were carried out in the premises of five Rashtriya Janata...
02:32 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Ranchi: Five policemen were killed on Thursday in a gun battle with Maoist guerrillas in Jharkhand, police said. The incident took place at Chainpur town of Gumla district, some 170 km from Ranchi, when Maoists attacked a police party while it was patrolling a weekly market. They also looted three rifles of the policemen. Four police personnel were killed on the spot, while one died in hospital, an official said....
03:15 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Ranchi: Five police personnel were on Thursday killed when Maoist guerrillas attacked them near Chenpur bus stand in Gumla district during a 'protest week' being observed by the red rebels. Deputy Inspector General of Police Sheetal Oraon said the policemen were on patrol duty when a group of Maoists fired indiscriminately on their vehicle killing three of them on the spot. Two others succumbed to their injuries at separate hospitals....
10:10 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Four persons were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly piercing the tongue of a woman with a needle after dubbing her a witch in Jharkhand's Latehar district last Sunday, police said. ...
07:41 PM, Apr 03, 2013
A man crushed his two little daughters to death after a quarrel with his wife at Gonabana village in Garwah district on Friday, police said. ...
12:26 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Ten alleged Maoists have been killed in an encounter between rival Maoist factions in Chatra in Jharkhand, local police said. The Maoists were killed in an encounter with the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) on Wednesday night. ...
11:55 AM, Mar 28, 2013
Union Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday rode pillion on a two-wheeler to go around villages in Naxal-hit Jhumra Hills area of Jharkand. After his visit, the Rural Development Minister said the Centre would soon announce the Jhumra Action Plan (JAP) to develop the villages of three contiguous districts in the area. The villages covered by Ramesh were all under-developed. ...
01:26 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Unhappy over delay in getting clearances for his projects, the world's largest steelmaker LN Mittal on Saturday said India was not his top priority for investment. ...
04:50 PM, Mar 24, 2013
A senior CID officer and an engineering student committed suicide in the Jharkhand capital on Thursday in two separate incidents, police said. Chandi Kumar Maitra, 59, a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) posted in criminal investigation department (CID) in Bokaro district committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his residence in Ranchi. He was scheduled to retire in July 2013. ...
04:58 AM, Mar 22, 2013
The boyfriend of the victim and three other accused in the gangrape case of a college girl, who committed suicide on Wednesday, were arrested, the police said. "All the four accused have been arrested," Senior Superintendent of Police Saket Kumar Singh said in Ranchi. ...
11:00 PM, Mar 21, 2013
A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her distant cousin at Chat village, about 70 km from Giridih town, the police said on Saturday. ...
11:29 AM, Mar 16, 2013
BJP leader Yashwant Sinha is reportedly upset with the party's decision to appoint Ravindra Rai as the party president in Jharkhand. ...
12:05 PM, Mar 12, 2013
In a case of police brutality, policemen in Bokaro, Jharkhand, beat up a man on Monday after he allegedly drove his bike through a no-entry zone. ...
09:56 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Signs of cracks were visible in the main Opposition, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yet again when its senior leader Yashwant Sinha threatened to resign from his Lok Sabha membership on Monday after Ravindra Rai was appointed the new Jharkhand party president. Sinha had made his opposition clear during the morning meeting of the top BJP leaders before the Parliament session. ...
05:33 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The CBI on Monday carried out searches in five cities after registering a fresh case against Jharkhand Ispat Private Limited for alleged irregularities in the allotment of coal blocks. CBI sources said that Jharkhand Ispat Private Limited, a company of RC Rungta Group, was allotted North Dhadu coal block on January 13, 2006 for its sponge iron plant. ...
03:46 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Dumka district sport officer-in-charge on Friday was arrested on the charge of exploiting a college student sexually for the last six months, police said. ...
01:20 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Two tribal women workers of Jharkhand Party (Naren) on Thursday alleged to the state Women's Commission and state Human Rights Commission that they had been molested by ruling Trinamool Congress activists. In the complaint, which was also sent to the SP and DM of Midnapore West district, the two adivasi women said though a complaint was lodged in Binpur police station following the incident, no action was taken. ...
10:47 PM, Mar 07, 2013
