CBI files closure report in Bakoria Encounter case, gives clean chit to police

Ranchi: The CBI which is probing the encounter which took place between police and Maoists on June 8, 2015, at Bakoria village under the Satbarwa police station area of Palamu district has filled its closure report.

As per sources, the CBI…

Land scam: ED to interrogate IAS Chhavi Ranjan on Friday

Ranchi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will interrogate Ranchi’s former DC IAS Chhavi Ranjan on Friday in the Bariatu-based army land scam case. The ED had sent summons on April 17 and asked Chhavi Ranjan to appear in the ED’s zonal office on April…

Health Minister Banna Gupta raises questions over CBI functioning after agency files closure report

Ranchi: Health Minister Banna Gupta said that the filing of a closure report by the CBI in the case registered against the persons convicted of killing 10 innocent persons and children in the alleged Police-Maoist encounter in the Bakoria incident…

Animals are provided Glucose and water cooler to beat heat at Birsa Munda Zoo

Ranchi: The animals like Tigers, Elephants, Bears and others are provided different things to beat the scorching sun. The animals are given glucose and kept in water coolers to beat the heat waves. 

Assistant Director of Birsa Munda Zoological…

Demands for Earthen pots and bottles rises as mercury crosses 40 Degree

Ranchi: As the mercury has crossed 40-degree celsius and touched 45 degrees in some parts of the state, the demand for earthen pots and bottles have gone up many folds.

Puran Kumar Prajapati, “A potter based at Ormanjhi area discovered eco-friendly…

NTPC sponsored CIPET’s youth skill development training concludes with 100 percent placement

Ranchi: Under CSR, NTPC Coal Mining took up an initiative to sponsor 80 youths including 4 girls from all coal mining project areas & its vicinity from the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh for skill development training in two courses Machine…

CPI(Maoist) call for 48-hr Bihar-Jharkhand bandh

Patna (IANS) Enraged over the killing of five of its operatives in an encounter, Naxal group CPI(Maoist) has called for a 48-hour bandh in the Naxal-dominated areas of Bihar and Jharkhand starting Thursday.

The organisation claimed that the…

Celsius touches 45 degrees at Godda, IMD forecasts heat wave on Thursday

Ranchi: The maximum  temperature has reached  nearly 45 degrees celsius with Godda district in Santhal Pargana recording a maximum temperature of 44.9 degrees.

As per Meteorological records, the day’s temperature crossed 43 degrees Celsius…

Bollywood Actress Neetu Chandra meets CM

Ranchi: Film actress and National Award-winning filmmaker Neetu Chandra paid a courtesy call on the Chief Minister Hemant Soren here and expressed her desire to promote the local and regional languages of Jharkhand through films and work towards shooting…

Governor returns bill passed to raise reservation to 77 percent in Jharkhand

Ranchi: Governor C P Radhakrishnan returned the Jharkhand Reservation in Vacancies of Posts and Services (Amendment) Bill, 2022, a bill related to increasing the limit of reservation for OBCs and other categories in Jharkhand.

The government had…