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 and half hour," Police Superintendent Upendra Kumar said. "We have recovered one body, while we saw the Maoists carrying away another during the encounter," he said.
"I cannot rule out the possibility of more casualty of the Maoists", he said. The injured jawans of COBRA battalion were admitted to hospital from where one was released this morning , he said.
A massive combing operation was on for the second day on Tuesday in the forest between Kalerango and Chatnibeda villages of the district to track down the rebels, he said....
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02:21 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 AM, May 14, 2013
Country's automobile giant Tata Motors Jamshedpur plant has rolled out of the two millionth (20 lakh) truck from its world-class manufacturing facility. ...
01:36 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Nine persons, including a photo journalist, were injured during a clash between contract labourers and security guards at Tata Steel who opened fire at the agitated workers here on Monday. The trouble started when the security guards, in accordance with a new company circular, asked the labourers to board company buses instead of riding bicycles to the site, which the labourers resisted. ...
03:45 PM, Dec 24, 2012
A 55-year-old man was on Saturday accused of sexually abusing a six-year-old girl at Bhathkidih in Jamshedpur city. In an FIR filed by Saeeda Parveen the mother of the victim, the man, Subhaan was accused of abusing the minor and issuing threats to not go to the police, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Law and Order) Raj Kishore Prasad said. ...
04:03 PM, Dec 22, 2012
In Jamshedpur, thanks to Shahbaz Nadeem's five-star performance with the ball, Jharkhand are eyeing an outright victory against Goa. ...
06:54 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Assam closed in on Kerala's first-innings total of 264 after offspinner Arlen Konwar shone with a five-wicket haul. ...
06:39 PM, Nov 18, 2012
Jamshedpur: Suspecting that his wife was into an illicit relationship, a villager allegedly killed her and their two children in West Singhbhum district, police said on Sunday. Seven-year-old Kuwanri Gope and her four-year-old brother Hote Gope along with their mother Deoki Gope (40) were allegedly axed to death by Ilyas Gope in Jono village, about 95 kms from Jameshdpur on Saturday. Their bodies were found early on Sunday, police said....
06:38 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Jamshedpur: In the ongoing crackdown against hate content on social media websites in the wake of the northeast exodus, a former journalist in Jamshedpur was arrested on Thursday for allegedly posting inflammatory messages online. The police seized his computer and hard disk. A probe is on. Meanwhile, 19 more suspects have been arrested in the Azad Maidan violence case. While two of them were produced in court on Wednesday and...
09:16 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Jamshedpur: A man was mauled and seriously injured by a tiger after he sneaked into the animal's enclosure at the Tata Steel Zoological Society in Jamshedpur, police said on Tuesday. The man, whose identity is yet to be established, had entered the enclosure of Raghav, the full grown tiger, on Monday night and was found unconscious inside the cage by zoo staff on Tuesday morning. The victim was removed from...
04:12 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: Meet Jharkhand's 'Lady Tarzan', who is spearheading a green movement in east Singbhum's Naxal-affected forests. With the help of the area's tribal women, Chami Devi has successfully planted over a million trees and built watersheds to increase the ground water level. Orphaned children are part of the young brigade of Chami Devi. She is now fondly called the 'Lady Tarzan' of the region. Mobilsing women was not easy...
09:02 AM, Jul 04, 2012
Jamshedpur: Production will be halted at Tata Motors block in Jamshedpur for three days from Thursday because of the 'prevailing economic condition', the company said on Wednesday. "A block closure has been announced from June 28 to 30 in the Jamshedpur plant," Tata Motors spokesman P J Singh said. "We are market driven company that is why we have taken the decision," Singh said when asked for the reason. "The...
05:25 PM, Jun 27, 2012
Jamshedpur: Tata's JUSCO is a company that takes its Corporate Social Responsibility very seriously. It is the equivalent of a municipal corporation for Jamshedpur, providing 24-hour portable drinking water, uninterrupted power supply and infrastructure for the local population. For the not-so-privileged of Jamshepdur, a regular day begins stocking up drinking water from a tanker. A free service by the Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company Limited, popularly called JUSCO, the TATA...
09:50 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Jamshedpur: A 32-year-old woman on Monday allegedly committed suicide when her husband turned down her request for a air-conditioner machine for lack of money at East Bengal Colony in Jamshedpur. Bina Das hanged herself following a quarrel with her husband over the demand of an AC machine, the police said. She had been demanding the AC machine for nearly a week in view of the scorching heatwave prevailing in the...
08:39 AM, May 29, 2012
Ranchi: A youth was on Wednesday sentenced to death by a local court for beheading a girl student in a college campus in Ranchi on April 28 last year. The District and Sessions Court of SH Kazmi pronounced the capital punishment against Vijendra Kumar for chopping off the head of intermediate student Khusboo outside an examination hall. The court had on April 26 convicted Kumar for the crime. Kumar, who...
08:16 AM, May 03, 2012
Jamshedpur: Three final year students of National Institute of Technology (NIT) were on Wednesday drowned in the Kharkhai River at Adityapur in Sarikela-Kharsawan district. According to police sources, P Aditya Vardhan, Prasun Anand and Sudhir Kumar were walking close the river bank when one of them slipped and the other two tried to rescue the friend when all were drowned. Vardhan hailed from Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh while Anand and...
10:21 PM, Jan 18, 2012
Ranchi: A special CBI court on Monday convicted 61 accused in a multi-crore fodder scam case relating to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 14.52 crore from Jamshedpur Treasury during undivided Bihar. Judge Pravas Kumar Singh sentenced 20 persons to one to three years imprisonment and slapped fine of Rs 30,000 to Rs five lakh.The court would pronounce the quantum of sentence against the rest later. Three of the total convicts were...
06:13 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Mumbai: Candidates, who cleared the CAT this year, would want to know which is the best B-School in India to apply to. CNBC-TV18 is out with its annual B-School rankings study. IIM Ahmedabad has again topped the list of CNBC-TV18's annual B-school rankings, but IIM-Bangalore is close on the heels. The fourth edition of the CNBC-TV18's 'India's Best B-Schools 2012' ranking covered 145 B-Schools and 235 recruiters, making it one...
07:47 AM, Jan 12, 2012
On this special series we show the options of pursuing a career in business management. ...
10:01 PM, Jan 08, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocking case of corporal punishment in a Jamshedpur school, 6 girl students were brutally punished by a lady teacher, which resulted in them fainting. The 9th class students, who are now being treated at a hospital, were punished by the teacher for making too much noise during her absence. The angry teacher asked the students to do a 100 sit-ups. When they refused, she beat them...
11:11 AM, Jun 29, 2011
