After 80 Class X girls in a Dhanbad school were allegedly made to remove their shirts by the principal for writing messages on them during Pen Day, the deputy commissioner initiated a five-member committee to investigate. DHANBAD: After the principal of a prominent private school here allegedly made 80 Class X girl students remove their…
RANCHI: Hoping to wrest Jharkhand from the Hemant Soren-led JMM govt, the BJP went to the polls with a strong strategy of showcasing cases of poor tribals losing their land to Bangladeshi land grabbers, in a move that eventually backfired with the entire campaign getting lost in translation on ground.And the result was JMM in…
Raid by I-T dept underway at the residence of Sunil Srivastava NEW DELHI: Income Tax officials on Saturday conducted searches at the residences of Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren‘s personal secretary, Sunil Srivastava and others. According to reports, around 9 premises in Ranchi and Jamshedpur are being covered as part of these raids.More details are…
RANCHI: Following the death of 12 candidates during excise constable recruitment drive, Jharkhand govt is all set to relax the parameters for the physical ability test, reports Sanjay Sahay. As against the current qualifying benchmark of 10km run in 60 minutes, the police department is going to introduce a system of completing 1.6km run in…
RANCHI: The drive is scheduled to run till Sept 4, with a board headed by an IPS officer conducting physical tests at each centre.IGP (operations) Amol Homkar said four candidates died in Palamu, two deaths each were reported in Giridih and Hazaribag, and one each at Jharkhand Jaguar, CTC Musabani and Sahibganj centres. Homkar said…
RANCHI: Seventeen MLAs of the BJP, including former ministers and a speaker, were suspended from the ongoing monsoon session of the Jharkhand assembly on Thursday for ‘disrespecting the dignity’ of the House. Speaker Rabindranath Mahto suspended the BJP lawmakers after they sat on an overnight Dharna in the well of the House demanding chief minister…
NEW DELHI: At least Five Kanwar Yatra pilgrims were electrocuted to death and three others sustained injuries in Jharkhand‘s Latehar district on Thursday morning when their vehicle came into contact with a high-tension overhead wire. The incident occurred at Tam Tam Tola in the Balumath police station area around 3am. The pilgrims were returning from…
RANCHI: The Jharkhand administration issued a warning on Wednesday following the detection of avian influenza cases at a poultry farm located in Ranchi, according to an official. The official informed, “920 birds, including 770 ducks, were culled at the Ram Krishna Ashram-run poultry farm – Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra – in Morabadi.”Furthermore, the official stated…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday morning arrested four persons in a land scam case including JMM leader Antu Tirkey, according to ANI.Priyaranjan Sahay, Vipin Singh, a real estate trader and Irshad were taken into custody. The arrests were made after the agency conducted searches at their premises on the previous day.Following the raids,…
RANCHI: Sleuths from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrived at the home of Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren to record the latter’s statement in an alleged land scam case on Saturday.Soren, who had skipped seven summons issued to him earlier in the case since August last year, agreed to record his statement at his home.Soren, 47,…
