NEW DELHI: Election Commission is likely to announce the dates of assembly polls in Maharashtra and Jharkhand in the coming week, with polling likely to be scheduled in the second or third week of Nov.EC – keeping in mind the slew of festivals ahead, starting with Diwali, a five-day affair from Oct 29 to Nov…
DUMKA: Unidentified miscreants blew up a stretch of the meter gauge railways (MGR) line in Sahibganj district of Jharkhand on Tuesday night. The tracks are used to transport coal from the Eastern Coalfields Limited‘s Rajmahal coal project at in Godda with the NTPC’s Farakka-based thermal power plant in West Bengal.Sahibganj SP Amit Kumar Singh said,…
HAZARIBAGH: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday gave a call to save the ‘roti, beti & maati’ in Jharkhand, accusing the Hemant Soren govt in Jharkhand of engaging in dangerous ‘vote bank’ politics by patronising infiltrators at the cost of the state’s identity and culture.Addressing a public meeting here at the conclusion of BJP‘s parivartan yatra,…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister and BJP‘s state election co-in-charge Himanta Biswa Sarma addressed the demographic issue in Jharkhand stating that “NRC (National Register of Citizens) will be done and the people whose names will not be there in NRC, we will have to push them away to Bangladesh.”“This will be our policy. Everyone will…
RANCHI: Questioning the necessity to suspend all internet services across the state for Jharkhand General Graduate Level Combined Competitive Examination on Sept 21 and 22, Jharkhand high court on Sunday ordered the state govt to immediately restore it and not repeat it without the court’s consent in future.Earlier, the state govt, announced that mobile internet…
NEW DELHI: In a first, Jharkhand government has moved Supreme Court seeking contempt of court action against the Centre for its “deliberate and wilful” delay in implementing the SC collegium‘s July 11 resolution recommending appointment of Justice M S Ramachandra Rao as chief justice of the state, reported.In its petition, the Hemant Soren govt said…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually flagged off six new Vande Bharat trains on Sunday from Tatanagar in Jharkhand, expanding the Indian Railways fleet. Vande Bharat trains to enhance connectivity on these routesThese trains will enhance connectivity on various routes, including Tatanagar – Patna, Bhagalpur – Dumka – Howrah, Brahmapur – Tatanagar, Gaya –…
NEW DELHI: As counter-Naxal forces brace to meet the March 2026 deadline set by home minister Amit Shah for ending Left-wing extremist (LWE) violence, the CRPF has augmented its strength in the Maoist bastions of south Bastar (Chhattisgarh) by deploying an additional 4,000 personnel.The force’s four battalions, comprising 4,000 troops, were recently ordered to leave…
NEW DELHI: Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda on Saturday joined Bharatiya Janata party in the presence of party chief Babulal Marandi and former CM Champai Soren.His wife, Geeta Koda quit Congress and joined the BJP earlier this year.(This is developing story) Source link
NEW DELHI: Champai Soren, former Jharkhand chief minister and long-time Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday.Soren in a statement to news agency PTI said, “After I was put under surveillance by Jharkhand govt in Delhi, Kolkata, my resolve to join BJP strengthened.”Upon his addition to the BJP, he said,…
