Dumka: The income tax department on Saturday carried out simultaneous searches at the residences of the mukhiya of Balathar panchayat under Mohanpur block in Deoghar district. The operation was conducted at the Mukhiya’s residence in Mohanpur and Baijnathpur under the Kunda police station limits.Officials from Patna, Dhanbad, and Deoghar, started checks of the financial records,…
Daltonganj: A zonal commander of the banned CPI (Maoist), identified as Baijnath Singh alias Chandan Kharwar, 52, was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment by a Latehar court on Friday, police said.Additional district and sessions judge (first) also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Singh. He was sentenced in a case registered in 2023…
Daltonganj: The Mehta family in Palamu’s Sikka village, whose five members died in eight days due to consumption of adulterated mustard oil, did not buy from the market but cultivated both mustard and argemone. Later, mustard and argemone oil was extracted at a local unit, Palamu civil surgeon Dr Anil Kumar Srivastava said on Saturday.Addressing…
Commuters wade through amid rain in Ranchi RANCHI: The IMD on Friday forecast light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds across Jharkhand over the next four days.The weather office issued an ‘orange’ alert (be prepared) for isolated thunderstorms and lightning across all 24 districts on Saturday, followed by a ‘yellow’ alert…
Ranchi: Two persons were arrested for killing a 75-year-old woman at Kitahatu village in Khunti district over suspicion of practising witchcraft on Thursday, police said on Friday. The deceased was identified as Etwari Devi.Khunti SP Rishabh Garg on Friday said that the victim’s neighbours, Dinay Munda, 20, and Mangal Munda, 19, have been arrested in…
Bokaro: Police on Friday carried out a vehicle checking drive and penalised 29 autos for flouting traffic rules and failing to produce necessary documents, officials said.The drive was carried out after receiving complaints over unruly parking, traffic obstruction and reckless driving by auto drivers. As many as 150 autos and e-rickshaws were inspected during the…
BJP MP Bidyut Baran Mahato enforce the bandh in Sakchi on Friday Jamshedpur: The daylong bandh called by NDA allies on Friday, demanding the immediate arrest of all accused in the bar murder case and against the alleged deterioration in the law-and-order situation, received a mixed response across the city, with markets remaining shut for…
Enumeration process underway in Ranchi Ranchi: The office of the chief electoral officer K Ravi Kumar on Friday clarified through a statement that all eligible voters who submit their signed Enumeration Forms (EFs) will be included in the draft electoral roll to be published on Aug 5.On Thursday, a conglomeration of civil society groups sent…
BIT Sindri is one of the institutes where admissions will take place Ranchi: The Jharkhand Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board (JCECEB) on Friday released the schedule for four rounds of online counselling for admissions into BE and BTech courses in govt engineering institutes. The process will be carried out on the basis of the state…
Jharkhand assembly speaker Rabindranath Mahto, Ranchi MLA CP Singh and Rajya Sabha MP Mahua Majhi at the cybersecurity workshop on Friday Ranchi: Cyber criminals are also targeting the elected representatives of the state frequently as a few MLAs on Friday revealed that they have received calls with attractive offers and were subjected to social media…
