A major land subsidence incident struck Dhanbad’s Katras area, swallowing nearly a dozen houses. DHANBAD: A major land subsidence incident struck Chhatabad in the Katras area of Dhanbad on Friday, triggering panic among residents. According to initial reports, nearly a dozen houses were swallowed as the ground suddenly caved in, forcing families to flee their…
Student Rahul Kranti, who has been on hunger strike, said his health condition had deteriorated due to prolonged fasting. RANCHI: The protest over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations in Jharkhand entered its 14th day on Friday, with six students continuing their hunger strike. Meanwhile, two student organisations announced plans to march towards the state Assembly,…
The protesting students formed an 11-member delegation on Thursday to hold discussions with the state government RANCHI: A student who was on hunger strike was shifted from Jaipal Singh Munda Stadium to Sadar Hospital on Friday after his health condition reportedly deteriorated, as the protest over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations entered its 14th day.Six…
Ranchi: Just a day after the publication of the draft electoral roll on Wednesday following the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), booth-level officers (BLOs) across Ranchi on Thursday started to get numerous queries via phone calls and in-person visits from voters seeking to verify whether their names have appeared in the draft…
Sadar police station in Chatra Hazaribag: A doctor and a home guard jawan have been booked for allegedly extorting money from newly selected home guard recruits during their medical examination in Chatra district, officials said on Thursday.The FIR was lodged at Chatra Sadar police station on Wednesday on the directions of deputy commissioner-cum-chairman of Home…
Jamshedpur: A day after three wanted Maoists were arrested by security forces from the forest area in Chandil and Kandra police station limits in Seraikela-Kharsawan district, police on Thursday said that the extremists were attempting to regain a foothold in Chandil-Dalma region after shifting base from Saranda. The arrested trio were facing more than 100…
The spot where Sunil Birhor was hacked to death Hazaribag: A 25-year-old man was hacked to death under Ichak police station limits of the district in the intervening hours of Wednesday and Thursday, police said. The deceased was identified as Sunil Birhor. The accused, identified as Vijay Birhor, 27, was arrested hours after the incident.Both…
Hazaribag: A couple died in lightning strike while working in a paddy field in Kanchanpur village under Kanchanpur panchayat of Katkamsandi block on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Basudev Mahto (51) and his wife Duliya Devi (48). Katkamsandi police station office in-charge Shivam Gupta said bodies were handed over to relatives after postmortem. Source…
Each fire station in the state will get two such vehicles, officials said Ranchi: Fifty-eight fire tenders, equipped with mist technology, were inducted into the fire department on Thursday. Chief minister Hemant Soren flagged off the vehicles at a programme organised at Home Guard Training Institute in Dhurwa. The new fire engines, officials said, is…
SP Nathu Singh Meena at the press conference on Thursday Bokaro: In June this year, cyber criminals siphoned off Rs 7.65 lakh from the bank accounts of 82-year-old Narendra Kumar Sinha in an online scam. A resident of Gujarat Colony in Bokaro, Sinha registered a complaint with the Cyber Police station on June 23.On Thursday,…
