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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) […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Hazaribag: A 16-year-old differently-abled boy appearing in the Class 10 state board examination died of suspected heat-related complications when he came out of an examination centre in Jharkhand’s Hazaribag district, police said on Sunday. The state has been reeling under heatwave conditions for the last few days with the maximum temperature shooting past the 40 […]
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Deoghar: At least one person has died while 48 others lay trapped mid-air in a row of 12 ropeway trollies that collided with each other at Trikut hills, close to Baba Baidyanath Temple, in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district, a senior official said on Monday. #Jharkhand: Two women died & 8 others people injured in Ropeway accident […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana topped the country in creating the best business environment, according to the NITI Aayog’s second edition of Export Preparedness Index (EPI)-2021. A robust business environment attracts investment in any region. In this category, Telangana has shown the best performance with a score of 100, while neighbouring Andhra Pradesh scored 99.61 and Gujarat 99.5. […]
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Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has warned the coal companies of putting barricades around coal mines if due payment of worth Rs 1.36 lakh crore is not cleared to the state by Central PSUs. “We have demanded payment of Rs 1.36 lakh crore (dues) to the state from the coal companies, and we will […]
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Hyderabad: Fulfilling his promise, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday extended financial support to the families of jawans martyred in the 2020 Galwan Valley clashes at the Chinese border. Along with Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, he handed over cheques of Rs 10 lakh to the kin of two martyr soldiers at the former’s […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will be visiting Jharkhand on Friday to pay tributes to the jawans, who were killed in a clash with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in 2020 and extend financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh to their family members. The Chief Minister along with Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren […]
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Ranchi: Jharkhand, which was carved out of Bihar in 2000, records three incidents of witch hunt violence per day and at least 1,000 people have been murdered due to the superstition in the past 22 years and 90 per cent victims are women. Chutni Devi from Jharkhand’s Beerbans village in Saraikela-Kharsawan district, who faced extreme […]
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Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Cybercrime police arrested nine persons from Wanaparthy, belonging to an interstate gang from Dhanbad of Jharkhand who are allegedly involved in bank loan frauds here on Friday. The arrested persons are K.Raju, K.Santhosh, E.Ganesh, M.Venkatesh, K.Raju, D.Srinivasulu, K.Harilal, K.Ganesh and M.Ganesh. All are residents of Wanaparthy district. According to the police, the […]
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The incidents marked the first day of the "resistance week" being observed by the Maoists to protest the arrest of their top leader Prashant Bose, a police officer said.
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Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday announced the state government will provide a subsidy of Rs 25 per litre to the poor ration-card holding families in the state for petrol used in two-wheelers, saying that the poor and middle classes have been hit hard by the rising prices of petroleum products. The subsidy […]
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Deoghar: A 14-year-old boy was killed over a tiff allegedly by his friends who slit his throat, chopped off his hands and legs, stuffed the body in sacks and dumped it in a jungle in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district, police said on Thursday. The victim’s family filed a complaint on Wednesday, alleging that he went missing […]
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Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday said that the state government has introduced the ‘Prevention of Mob Violence and Mob Lynching Bill, 2021’ to maintain peace, communal harmony, and brotherhood in the state. “Government has brought this Bill (Prevention of Mob Violence and Mob Lynching Bill, 2021) to maintain peace, communal harmony, and […]
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad suffered their third straight loss going down to Jharkhand by 36 runs to crash out of the Vijay Hazare tournament, in the Elite Group C match in Chandigarh on Tuesday. CV Milind picked up 6 for 63 but Jharkhand rode on Virat Singh’s 65 to post a decent 276 on the board in […]
