BJP plans to form Jharkhand govt with JMM

Ranchi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday decided to call on the Governor and stake claim to form a government in Jharkhand with the support from its erstwhile partners Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU).

The Jharkha

Francis Induwar’s widow Sunita appeals to Maoists

The widow of Francis Induwar, the special branch inspector who was abducted and beheaded by Maoists last year, has appealed to the Leftwing rebels to free the four policemen taken hostage by them in Bihar.

Two of the four abducted policemen belong to Jharkh

Jharkhand High rCourt asks CBI to tace PIL mover in Koda scam

The Jharkhand High Court Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to trace and bring before it Durga Oraon on whose public interest litigation (PIL) a probe was ordered in the multi-crore-rupee scam allegedly involving former chief minister M

Fair price shop dealer lynched in Jharkhand

Suspected Maoists beat a fair price shop dealer to death in Jharkhand’s Latehar district Tuesday, police said.

Mukesh Prasad was killed in Turudih village of Latehar, about 140 km from here.

The villagers alleged that he was selling the fair price shop f

Bribery charges against Madhu Koda

Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda was named among 29 others in an FIR filed by the state Vigilance Bureau accusing them of forgery and criminal conspiracy while awarding contracts to a Hyderabad-based company for rural electrification.

Inspector Ge

Jharkhand budget leakage being probed: Pranab Mukherjee

The Jharkhand Police is investigating the media leak of the state’s budget last year before it was presented in the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Thursday.

Mukherjee said the state government has examined the matter raised by Bharatiya J

39 temples on government land face demolition in Ranchi

As many as 39 temples constructed on government land in Ranchi district of Jharkhand have been issued notices asking why they should not be pulled down, an official said Friday.

Some of the temples are more than 50 to 60 years old where thousands of devotee

Maoists rebels attack Pirtand police station in Jharkhand

Maoist rebels attacked a police station, torched six trucks and blasted the office of a political party in two districts of Jharkhand while enforcing their 24-hour strike in parts of the state early Thursday.

Nearly 200 Maoists attacked Pirtand police stati

Girl attempts suicide after boy circulates MMS in jharkhand

A teenaged village girl in Jharkhand tried to commit suicide after discovering that a boy from her village her circulated a pornographic MMS involving her, police said Monday.

A resident of Giddi village in Ramgarh district, around 45 km from Ranchi, Rajni

Four JVM-P workers killed in accident

Four workers of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik (JVM-P) were killed and 14 others injured Sunday when the vehicle they were travelling in hit a tree and fell into a

ditch in Jharkhand’s Garwah district, police said.

According to police, the JVM-P

Ranchi hospital nurses call off strike

Medical services improved slightly at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) here Sunday as the nurses called off a five-day strike after the state government accepted four of their six demands and promised to consider the other two.

The strike wa

Woman killed for dowry in Ranchi

A young woman was beaten to death by her in-laws for dowry in this Jharkhand capital, police said Saturday.

Gazala, 25, was beaten by an iron rod. Gazala’s mother alleged that her daughter, who was married last year, was being tortured by her husband and in

Government clears four loaning of Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway

The government Friday approved four laning of a section of the national highway connecting Ranchi and Jamshedpur in Jharkhand at an estimated cost of Rs.1,479 crore.

This will help reduce the time and cost of travel between the state capital and the industr

BJP leader, labourer killed by Maoists

Maoists shot dead a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and a Uranium Corp of India Ltd (UCIL) worker in Jharkhand, police Thursday said.

BJP’s Munna Gupta was gunned down in Latehar district late Wednesday by guerrillas from Tritiya Prastuti Com

Top Maoist leader,Rajesh alias Udayji, among four arrested in Jharkhand

A top Maoist leader carrying a reward of Rs.5 lakh was arrested along with two of his associates from an apartment here while another guerrilla was arrested from Garwah district in Jharkhand, police said Thursday.

Rajesh alias Udayji, who is Jhar

BJP leader,Munna Gupta, shot dead by Maoists in Jharkhand

Maoists have shot dead a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Jharkhand’s Latehar district, police said Thursday.

Munna Gupta was shot late Wednesday by guerrillas belonging to Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), one of the six Maoist outfits active in the

12 Jharkhand districts declared drought-hit

As many as 12 of the 24 districts in Jharkhand were declared drought-hit for the fifth successive year as they received less than 50 percent of the normal rainfall, a senior official has said.

The decision was taken in a Jharkhand Governor Adviso

Maoist strike hits road, rail services in Jharkhand

Road and rail services were badly affected in Jharkhand due to a 48-hour strike called by Maoists that began Tuesday, officials said.

The national highways wore a deserted look and no long-route buses plied in many parts of the state. Life came t

Journalist Nirupama Pathak’s mother granted bail

A Jharkhand court has given bail to Sudha Pathak, the mother of 23-year-old journalist Nirupama Pathak who was found dead in her home April 29, after police failed to file a chargesheet within the stipulated 90 days from her arrest.

Sudha was arr

Elephant tramples Jharkhand official to death in Jamtara district

An angry elephant trampled a forest official to death in Jharkhand’s Jamtara district, police said Tuesday.

K.K. Pandey, a forest ranger of Jamtara, was trying to calm down the elephant Monday when he was trampled to death in Maru village, about