The recruitment drive comes at a time when farmers face a heightened risk of crop damages in the ongoing kharif cropping season due heavy monsoon rain across several districts, including fungal infections, pest attacks, and nutrient deficiencies. Ranchi: State agriculture department will hire Fasal Rakshaks (crop protectors) in each district to help farmers to protect…
In rural areas, Mahadeoganj, Ambadiha, Balua Diara, Kishan Prasad Diara, Lalbathani Diara and Makhmalpur South Diara are among the worst affected Dumka: The Ganga continued to rise in Sahibganj, touching 28.47 metres at 8 pm on Monday, 1.22 m above the danger mark of 27.25 m. The Central Water Commission has forecast a further increase…
RANCHI: Entering a woman’s house at night and trying to lift her clothes may be criminal, but it does not amount to an attempt to rape, Jharkhand HC has ruled while drawing a line between outraging a woman’s modesty and attempting to rape her.Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, deciding a criminal appeal on Aug 31, held…
Ranchi: To ensure an uninterrupted power supply across Jharkhand, the state power distribution utility has set up a specialised daily monitoring mechanism to keep tabs on electrical feeders.Acting on the directives of K Srinivasan, managing director of Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (JBVNL), a four-member committee has been constituted to strictly oversee all 11 kV…
Sustained crackdown resulted in a steady a steady month-on-month decline in violations, police said Ranchi: Traffic police in state capital issued 3,39,010 challans on traffic rule violators between Jun 1 and Aug 31 this year. Wrong parking topped the list of offences followed by motorists riding two-wheelers without helmets, department data has showed.Sustained crackdown resulted…
The bodies were recovered around dusk after a nearly four-hour operation Dumka: Two students drowned at a check dam on the Dhobai river in Dumka’s Hansdiha area on Sunday after one entered the water to film a reel and the other jumped in to rescue him.The victims were identified as Raman Mandal, 16, a Class…
Ramgarh: Police seized and destroyed nearly 4.5 quintals of java mahua in raids at Bhurkunda and West Bokaro police outpost (OP) in the district on Monday. Java mahua is a fermented wash of Mahua used for brewing country liquor.Ramgarh SP Mukesh Kumar Lunayat said teams from Mandu police station, West Bokaro OP and Bhurkunda OP…
Officials said the ward-level markets would provide designated spaces to local vendors Ranchi: The Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has begun identifying land for dedicated vendors’ markets in all 53 wards of the city. The exercise follows chief minister Hemant Soren’s directive last week to develop local vending hubs in every ward under Jharkhand’s urban local…
Marandi urged the CM to order a neutral inquiry into Gupta’s role Ranchi: Ahead of BJP’s statewide agitation from Tuesday to Friday against FIRs lodged against students protesting alleged irregularities in JPSC and JSSC examinations, leader of opposition Babulal Marandi on Monday demanded an impartial probe into former DGP Anurag Gupta’s alleged role in the…
The high court said the nearly eight months the appellant had already spent in custody would be sufficient to meet the ends of justice Ranchi: Jharkhand high court has held that merely entering a woman’s house at night and lifting her clothes does not amount to rape or an attempt to commit rape.Justice Pradeep Kumar…
