Patna: Around 40 kanwariyas sustained injuries after a bus in which they were travelling in rammed into a parked truck in Bihar’s Gopalganj district on Thursday morning. The victims are residents of Sugauli, located on the Indo-Nepal border in West Champaran district. They were on the way to Deoghar in Jharkhand to offer Ganga Jal […]
Giridih: A Maoist wanted in the 2013 killing of the then Pakur Superintendent of Police Amarjeet Balihar has been nabbed in Giridih district of Jharkhand, a police statement said. The arrested Maoist, identified as Nandlal Soren alias Hitesh alias Pavitra da alias Vijay da, was a member of the Special Area Committee of the banned […]
Nalgonda: A contract labor Shivs Kumar Gopi hailing from Jharkhand, died on Sunday while undergoing treatment after accidentally falling from Nagarjuna Sagar Project dam. According to the police, the contract labor had accidentally fallen from the dam while working at 10th crest gate on Saturday evening. He had received severe injuries in the incident. He […]
New Delhi: TRS working president and Telangana IT Minister K T Rama Rao (KTR) on Monday described as “tokenism” the NDA’s decision to field a tribal candidate for the presidential election, and said the Modi government has done nothing for the uplift of the community in the last eight years. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) […]
Hyderabad: A complaint was lodged against director Ram Gopal Varma at the Abid Road police station on Friday alleging he made derogatory comments against Presidential nominee Draupadi Murmu on social media. BJP leader Narayana Reddy was the complainant, saying RGV posted on Twitter making derogatory comments against the senior woman politician and former Governor of […]
New Delhi: Security has been beefed up in several states on Monday amid protests against the Centre’s new Agnipath recruitment scheme. After the policy, which allows Indian youths to serve in the regular cadre of the Armed Forces for a period of four years, was announced on June 14, protests erupted in various states including […]
Ranchi: Two youths accused of raping a girl have been beaten up and set on fire by villagers in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, leaving one dead and the other seriously injured, police said on Thursday. The incident took place in a village in Sadar Police Station area on Wednesday night. The injured is undergoing treatment at […]
Garhwa: A former CPI (Maoist) Sub-Zonal Commander was arrested from a jungle in Jharkhand’s Garhwa district, a senior police officer said. Superintendent of Police Anjani Kumar Jha said a special police team was formed following a tip-off about the movement of the former sub zonal commander Bhanu Singh Kharwar. Kharwar and his lover made an […]
Khunti: A top Naxalite was killed in a gunfight with the security forces in Jharkhand’s Khunti district on Wednesday morning, police said. Laka Pahan, the secretary of south Chhotanagpur regional committee of outlawed People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI), was killed in Kota Indipidi forest in Murhu police station area, they said. The district armed […]
Ranchi: Suffering continuous hours of a power outage for the past several days, daily life and business of the locals halted in Jharkhand’s Ranchi. “The business is being fizzled out, as every day we have to face a power crisis for 3-4 hours. I am a stationery shop owner with Photocopy machines who keep the […]
