Bokaro: Three patients died of burns after a fire broke out in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a private hospital at Bokaro in Jharkhand, hospital sources said on Saturday. "A short circuit in the air-conditioner, which was installed in the ICU, caused the fire," Managing Director of K Memorial Hospital Dr Vikash Pandey said. Eleven patients out of fourteen admitted in the ICU were rescued, while three died of...
09:07 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Bokaro: Bokaro in Jharkhand is submerged under three feet of water after incessant rainfall for the past few days. The Meteorology Department has predicted more rains in the coming days. The district administration says it is prepared for any emergency. ...
09:22 AM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed FIRs against five companies in connection with coal blocks allocation. The companies include Vinni Iron and Steel, Nav Bharat Steel, JLD Yavatmal, JAS Infrastructure and Power and AMR Iron and Steel. Cases have been registered under cheating, criminal conspiracy against the companies, owners of the companies and unknown officials of the Coal Ministry and state governments. The agency had questioned...
07:55 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is all set to take over the probe into the recovery of an American Colt and Hart M-16 rifle from an alleged arms supplier and a Maoist zonal commander in Jharkhand. Official sources said a team of NIA had already visited Silodar forest from where the American gun, an Italian pistol and UK-manufactured bulletproof jacket were recovered from alleged arms supplier Prafulla Malakar...
08:20 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Ranchi: The Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) party workers on Monday protested outside the state Assembly demanding rehabilitation of those displaced during the construction of the Bokaro Steel Plant. One of the party workers died after the police lathicharged them as they tried to break through a barricade set up outside the Assembly. Meanwhile, earlier in the day, a JVM (Prajatantric) MLA tore off his shirt in the Assembly to press...
03:31 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Jharkhand assembly was adjourned twice today after an opposition MLA ripped off his shirt inside the house to press for demands. ...
02:23 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Ranchi: Jharkhand assembly was adjourned twice today after an opposition MLA ripped off his shirt inside the house to press for demands. As soon as the house convened at 11 am, opposition members trooped into the well of the house raising a din over a plethora of demands. Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric) MLA Samresh Singh ripped his shirt, prompting Speaker CP Singh to first adjourn the house for an hour....
01:07 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Nadeem has been retained as captain of the Jharkhand Ranji team for the forthcoming session. ...
07:15 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Ranchi: The seizure of a US-made assault rifle from two men in a jungle bordering Bihar in Jharkhand has created a flutter in the state with the police saying they would investigate if a network of suppliers of foreign-made weapons were reaching out to Maoists. The police have confiscated the M16 rifle. M16 has been the primary service rifle of the US armed forces since the Vietnam War. Apart from...
01:17 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Patna: Prince Pandey, one of the accused in the murder of Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh, was arrested near Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand, police said on Friday. Prince Pandey was believed to be among those who shot Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh. He was arrested by a joint team of Bihar and Jharkhand police, following a tip-off from intelligence officials. Brahmeshwar Singh was shot dead in Arrah town, district headquarters...
03:00 PM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing into the alleged coal blocks allocation scam, is ready with the first FIR in connection with the case which is likely to be filed soon. The agency is, in fact, likely to file five to six FIRs in the case quite soon. Details of the FIR exclusively accessed by CNN-IBN from CBI sources show how mine owners with political...
06:49 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: Ten years after the horrific incident, 27-year-old acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee on Thursday underwent a reconstructive surgery at BL Kapur Memorial Hospital in New Delhi. Doctors attending on Sonali said that she is still in the ICU as she has developed some respiratory complications but they assured that her condition will stabilise in a few hours. It was after CNN-IBN had highlighted her plight and initiated a...
05:23 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Hazaribagh: The head of the CPI(Maoist) 'armoury' section and an arms supplier were on Wednesday arrested when foreign-made sophisticated weapons were about to change hands, police said. Anil Yadav, the head of the 'armoury' in Bihar and Jharkhand, and arms supplier Prafulla Malakar were arrested form Silodar forests on the border of Hazaribagh's Chouparan and Bihar's Gaya district, Hazaribagh SP Manoj Kaushik said. On a tip-off, a special task force...
07:22 PM, Aug 29, 2012
American runs football academy for tribal girls, school on wheels educating slum children and more inspiring stories. ...
07:36 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Orh-manjhi: Franz Gastler is no professional footballer. Born and brought up in Edina, Minnesota, he studied at Boston University and Harvard Law School before he found his true calling, at least 13,000 km away from home, in a small village in North India. A professional trip around five years ago to Jharkhand changed his life forever. He left his well-paying job, gathered all his savings and opened a football academy...
09:25 AM, Aug 22, 2012
Ranchi: A group of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers had a narrow escape when the boat carrying them capsized in Jharkhand. At least a dozen persons, including three Jharkhand government officials, on Monday had a narrow escape when their boat overturned in Dhurva Dam, about 20 km from Ranchi. Secretary of the Fisheries Department Arun Kumar Singh, two other officials of the department and some media persons were set to...
11:13 AM, Aug 21, 2012
Latehar: A man was beaten up by some people and buried alive at Aradhih village in Latehar district for allegedly practising witchcraft, police said on Sunday. The police on Sunday exhumed the body of Mangar Bhuyan and sent it for postmortem after his family members lodged an FIR. The FIR alleged that the five persons yesterday dragged out Mangar from his house and severely thrashed him. Later, took him to...
01:59 AM, Aug 20, 2012
On Independence Day when the Tricolour rises once again in Saranda, the people of this mineral rich area will hope they have not merely exchanged ...
06:23 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Ranchi: Former Jharkhand Chief Minister and MP Madhu Koda was on Monday granted bail by the state High Court in one of the corruption cases lodged against him. However, he will continue to remain in jail in other cases. A single bench of Justice HC Mishra granted bail to Koda in a corruption case pertaining to an alleged pollution control board scam. On April 5, the formr chief minister had...
02:32 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Ranchi: The Jharkhand government on Friday offered a government job to acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee after CNN-IBN ran a campaign to help her. In addition, Chief Minister Arjun Munda assured adequate security to her family. Twenty seven-year-old Sonali Mukherjee was attacked with acid in 2003 after she spurned the advances of three men in her neighbourhood in her village in Dhanbad. However, for nine years, justice eluded her and...
05:20 PM, Aug 10, 2012
