Tag: Jharkhand

At least five polling and police personnel were killed and some others injured when suspected Maoists blew up the vehicle they were travelling in Dumka district, a senior police officer said here

Disciplined bowling by Basant Mohanty and Paresh Patel helped Odisha register a four-run win over Jharkhand in a thrilling East Zone league match for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament at the Eden Gardens on Friday

Ranchi: Twelve Maoists were killed in a gunbattle with security personnel in Jharkhand’s Palamau district, police said today. “Twelve Maoist guerrillas were killed in a gunbattle with the policemen yesterday night in a jungle in Palamau district,” a police officer told IANS. Police raided a Maoist hideout on a tip-off. Anurag alias ‘doctorji’, a sub-zonal […]

Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and others were granted bail in a coal block allocation case by a court here Wednesday and were directed not to leave the country without permission

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to place the Justice Shah Commission's report on illegal mining in Odisha and Jharkhand before it by January 27

Jamshedpur: Three CRPF personnel donated blood to help save the life of a woman Naxal, who was shot during an encounter in West Singhbhum district on February 14, a senior police officer said. Superintendent of Police Chandan Kumar Jha said police had received specific information that around 24 Maoists, led by Kande Honhaga, the self-styled […]

Ranchi: Maoist guerrillas set on fire three vehicles and a generator in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district early on Thursday, police said. The Maoists, numbering 10-12, raided a camp office of a private company involved in road construction in Lodhi Panchayat. They thrashed the staff and later set on fire a JCB vehicle, a tractor, a mixture […]

Ranchi: Three Maoists were killed in a gunfight with the security forces in Jharkhand’s Gumla district on Sunday, a CRPF official said. The gunfight erupted after Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers along with Jharkhand Police, launched a special operation in the district. “We have recovered the three bodies as well as two AK-47 rifles, […]

Ranchi: Congress has announced names of three of the seven candidates from Jharkhand for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The party has fielded former Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahay from Ranchi, Sukhdeo Bhagat from Lohardagga and Geeta Koda from the Chaibasa seats. Geeta Koda and Sukhdeo Bhagat are legislators in the state assembly. As per […]

Ranchi: Maoist guerrillas blew up three building of the forest department in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Friday, police said. The Maoists first blew up two quarters of forest guards, each constructed at a cost of Rs 30 lakh, before blasting a third building in the Kuira forest area. No one was injured in the […]

Ranchi: Three Maoists and a CRPF jawan were killed in an encounter in Jharkhand’s Giridih district on Monday, officials said. They said the encounter between the two sides took place around 6 am in the forests of Belbha Ghat area of the district when troops of the 7th battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) […]

Jamshedpur/Bhubaneswar: She is the pride of Odisha and Jharkhand, feel family members and relatives of Anya Das who secured 60th rank in the 2018 civil services examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Anya Das, an Odisha-native and currently residing in Jamsedpur of Jharkhand, secured 60th rank in the 2018 examinations making her […]

New Delhi: Nearly 40 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the 59 Lok Sabha seats in the sixth and penultimate phase of the elections till 2 p.m. on Sunday. Voting is taking place for 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, all 10 in Haryana, eight each in West Bengal, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Jharkhand […]

Ranchi: Jharkhand recorded 13.84 per cent polling till 9 a.m. for the three Lok Sabha seats on Sunday, an election official said. According to Election Commission data, voter turnout was highest in Godda with 16.51 per cent, followed by Dumka and Rajmahal with 13.87 and 10.67 per cent, respectively. Voting began at 7 a.m. in […]

Ranchi: Fifteen personnel of the CRPF and the state police were injured in an IED blast triggered by Naxals in Jharkhand’s Seraikela Kharsawan district in the early hours of Tuesday, officials said. The blast took place around 5 am when a joint team of the CRPF’s special jungle warfare unit, CoBRA, and the state police […]