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Veteran Jharkhand leader Shibu Soren, JMM founder and three-time Chief Minister, died at 81 in Delhi after a prolonged illness. A key figure in the Jharkhand statehood movement, he was popularly known as Guruji and served in Parliament multiple times.

Chief Minister and Ministers administered oath as MLAs by Assembly's pro-tem Speaker Stephen Marandi soon after proceedings of House began at 11 am

Counting of postal ballots under way

Warns that if the court goes into the details of the case, it will be “damaging” for him

Seventy-seven MLAs were present in the assembly during the voting.

Making 1932 the cut-off year for the domicile policy will help descendants of those, who were living in present-day Jharkhand before that year, avail benefits in various schemes and get government jobs.

Hemant Soren designated Champai Soren as his successor, and the latter requested some time from the governor to prove his majority.

The ED has issued a fifth summons to the Delhi chief minister for his questioning in the excise policy linked money laundering case, official sources said Wednesday.

JMM candidate Basant Soren, who is the younger brother of CM Hemant Soren, defeated his nearest BJP rival Lois Marandi, a former minister, by 6,842 votes

RJD will contest in 144 seats, Congress in 70 and the Left Parties in 29 seats