Tag: Hazaribagh

All the deceased and injured persons were reportedly from Odisha.

Ranchi: Maoist Guerrillas on Saturday torched six vehicles involved in the repair work of a canal in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district, police said. A private company was involved the work at Chauparan. Some 25 guerrillas raided the company’s camp office while the staff were sleeping, the police said. The rebels then poured kerosene on the vehicles […]

Ranchi: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha was arrested on Tuesday along with party legislator Manish Jaiswal and 150-odd supporters in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand after they allegedly tried to take out a religious procession. “Some security men were injured when Sinha’s supporters pelted them with stones in Mahudi area at Barkagao. Tear gas shells were […]

Hazaribagh (Jharkhand): Eleven persons, including three women and a child, were killed and 22 others injured Monday when a Patna-bound bus hit an iron-laden stationary trailer-truck on NH-2 in Hazaribagh district, police said. The accident took place at dawn near Danua-Bhanua area under Chouparan Police Station limits, when the bus crashed into the trailer-truck from […]

Ranchi: It took 42 years to build a Jharkhand irrigation project, and then within 24 hours of its inauguration, the canal meant to provide water in 85 villages across Giridih, Hazaribagh and Bokaro districts was washed away. The state administration has found rodents to pin the blame on. The irrigation project in Giridih district was […]