Budget Session: Bill over providing 75 percent reservation to locals in private jobs sent to select committee

Ranchi: On the penultimate day of the Budget Session of Jharkhand Assembly the bill on providing 75 percent reservation to the locals in the private jobs got stuck and was sent to the select committee.

The bill was tabled before the house in…

Five children drown in pond in Hazaribagh

Hazaribagh: Five children including four girls were drowned in a pond on Tuesday located at Gadokhar village under Katkamdag police station area of this district on Tuesday.

The deceased have been identified as Kajal Kumari (14), Nikita Kumari…

Budget Session: Regional languages will be taught in all plus two schools of state, posts of teachers to be created

Ranchi: Posts of teachers will be created for regional languages in all the plus two schools of the state.

An assurance in this regard was given by minister Mithlesh Thakur over a query of Mandar MLA Bandhu Tirkey during the ongoing budget…

Weather watch: Temperature goes up by 2 degrees, mercury to increase further

Ranchi: Once again temperature has started to increase in the state capital where the maximum temperature has reached the 35 degrees mark which was 2 degrees more than the normal temperature.

During this period the minimum temperature was recorded…

Three including lovers commit suicide in Palamu

Daltonganj: Three including lovers committed suicide under separate police station areas of the Palamu district.

Under Naudiha Bazaar Police Station area Rinku Kumari (17) and Bachu Kumar (19) who were in a relationship committed suicide by…

Section 144 to be imposed in Ranchi during Shab-E-Baraat & Holi

Ranchi: Sub Divisional Officer Sadar Ranchi has decided to impose section 144 in areas falling under its jurisdiction during the twin festivals of Shab-e-Baraat and Holi which will be celebrated during end of this month.

As per the use of the…

Postings racket: Fadnavis turns heat on MVA, hands over crucial docs to Home Secy

New Delhi (IANS) Former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday handed over some key documents, including the clinching audio tapes related to the transfer-posting racket in Maharashtra, to Union Home Secretary A.K. Bhalla on Tuesday.

"I…

'SID tapped phones in transfer racket, red flagged several postings'

New Delhi/Mumbai (IANS) Months before former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh's allegations against Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, the Maharashtra State Intelligence Department (SID) had tapped several key telephones in connection with…

SC to hear Param Bir Singh's plea against Maha Home Minister on Wed

New Delhi (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a plea by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, who has unleashed a barrage of allegations against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, and seeking a CBI probe against him.

New tax-free ceiling on PF for employees in firms without employer contribution

New Delhi (IANS) The government has put yet another ceiling on tax-free contribution made to provident funds. Replying to the debate on Budget 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that a ceiling of Rs 5 lakh per annum would be applied…