Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase the Centre’s financial contribution towards scholarship schemes for Scheduled Tribes (ST), Scheduled Castes (SC), Backward Classes (BC) and minority students, saying inadequate funding is affecting the … read more
Khunti: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday arrested the officer-in-charge of the Women Police Station in Jharkhand’s Khunti district after she was allegedly caught accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 during a trap operation. The accused, Sulekha Kumari Sapna, was … read more
Gumla: A 40-year-old woman was allegedly murdered on suspicion of practising witchcraft in Jharkhand’s Gumla district on Thursday. The accused, a fellow villager, later surrendered at the local police station, police said. The victim, Taramuni Devi, was washing utensils near … read more
Ranchi: The investigation into the alleged irregularities in the JPSC 14th Preliminary Examination has gathered pace, with the CID questioning former Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) Chairman L. Khiangte for the second consecutive day on Wednesday. Khiangte had already undergone … read more
Ranchi: In a major breakthrough in Jharkhand’s anti-Naxal campaign, 16 CPI (Maoist) cadres, including senior commanders, surrendered before the Jharkhand Police on Monday, laying down a large cache of sophisticated weapons and ammunition. According to police officials, those who surrendered … read more
Ranchi: Former Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) Chairman L. Khiyangte arrived at the CID headquarters in Ranchi on Tuesday amid the ongoing investigation into alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations. Khiyangte reached the CID office in an Ola cab (a Swift … read more
New Delhi: The Centre has informed the Rajya Sabha that development work at four of the six airports identified under the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)-UDAN in Jharkhand has been completed, with Bokaro and Dumka airports now awaiting regulatory clearance before … read more
Ranchi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State Chief Spokesperson Pratul Shahdeo on Saturday accused the Jharkhand government of protecting senior officials allegedly involved in the ₹10,000-crore Treasury Scam and using the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to shield those responsible instead of … read more
Ranchi: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Jharkhand spokesperson Kailash Yadav has backed the state government’s decision to order a CID investigation into the alleged irregularities in the 14th Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) examination, stating that the probe is being conducted … read more
Jamshedpur: Jharkhand is likely to witness a fresh spell of widespread rainfall as a weather system over the northwest Bay of Bengal is expected to strengthen into a deep depression before making landfall along the north Odisha–West Bengal coast on … read more