Ranchi: Excitement for the 135th edition of Asia’s oldest football tournament, the Durand Cup, gathered pace in Ranchi on Wednesday as free ticket distribution began at dedicated counters at Birsa Munda Football Stadium. Long queues of football enthusiasts, students and families collected passes for the tournament, which the city will host for the first time.The…
Hazaribag: A day after a private bodyguard was shot dead by his colleague outside the office-cum-residence of Chatra SP Animesh Naithani on Tuesday, investigation has revealed that the key accused is out on bail after allegedly killing his four Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) colleagues in Bihar in 2017, police said.The deceased was identified as…
Jamshedpur: The much-awaited Mango flyover is set to miss its July 31 deadline, with the city’s first major grade-separated urban road project now likely to be opened around Durga Puja, road construction department officials said.The delay came as a fresh disappointment for nearly 16 lakh residents of Jamshedpur, who have been waiting for the 2.8-km…
AI image for representation Daltonganj: A 55-year-old man and his 32-year-old son were killed after being struck by lightning in Palamu district late on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Balmukund Yadav and his son, Dilip.They were returning to their home in Purushottampur village, under Panki police station limits, from a village haat at Tetraiyn…
Hazaribag: Police seized an illegally stocked dump of nearly 10,000 cubic feet of sand, equivalent to around 100 tractor-loads, from a village under Tandwa police station limits in Chatra district on Wednesday.Acting on a tip-off, Tandwa circle officer Gaurav Rai raided Chauda village along with teams from Tandwa and Piparwar police stations.“Sand was being illegally…
Dumka: Two persons, including a driver, were killed after an overloaded tractor transporting steel rods overturned on the Godda-Mahagama stretch of NH-133 near Kakna village in Godda district late on Monday.The deceased were identified as Sunil Mahto, 40, the tractor driver, and Niwas Bauri, 32, a labourer from Pandubathan village. Bauri was sitting atop the…
The upgrade aims to improve traffic flow while enhancing the corridor’s urban landscape Ranchi: State govt has accorded administrative approval for a Rs 36.30-crore project to upgrade the 2.6-km stretch from Dhurwa intersection to the police headquarters on the Birsa Chowk-Project Bhawan-Chandni Chowk road in the city.Besides widening and strengthening the carriageway, the project will…
For Wednesday and Thursday, the Met office predicted thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds of 30-40 kmph at isolated places Ranchi: The Met office on Tuesday issued a heavy rainfall alert for Ranchi and adjoining parts of the state this weekend. If such conditions continue over the next few days, Jharkhand’s rainfall deficit may reduce further,…
Ranchi: The 65th state-level Subroto Mukherjee Cup football tournament, organised by the Jharkhand Education Project Council (JEPC), drew to a grand close at the Khelgaon practice ground and BIT Mesra ground on Tuesday.Santhal Pargana division bagged the trophy in the Under-15 Boys’ final while South Chotanagpur Division won the Under-17 Girls’ final and the Under-17…
Sanjay Sahay | TNNRanchi: Jharkhand DGP Tadasha Mishra, while attending the eastern region police coordination committee meeting online, stressed joint anti-extremist operations, continuous intelligence sharing and regular coordination at multiple levels to prevent any Maoist upsurge in the region. She said coordinated operations should be intensified along the Jharkhand-Odisha, Jharkhand-West Bengal, Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand-Bihar borders.Mishra…
