Sidhu injures his vocal cord, advised rest

Chandigarh (IANS) Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu has been advised complete rest for up to five days after he injured his vocal cords during an exhaustive 17-day election campaign for Congress candidates in poll-bound states. He addressed…

JVM(P) to extend support to Congress in Kolibera by-polls

Ranchi (By our correspondent): The Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) said that the party will support Congress candidate Vixcel Kongadi in the by-polls to the Kolibear seat of the Jharkhand Assembly voting for which is scheduled…

Barnwal directs officials of Water Resources Dept to immediately solve water crisis in Chaitra Colliery

Ranchi (By our correspondent): Principal Secretary to Jharkhand Chief Minister Sunil Barnwal asked the officials of the drinking water and sanitation department to seriously look into the issue of solving the water crisis plaguing…

Urban Development Dept inks agreement for water supply in 4 cities under AMRUT Yojana

Ranchi (By our correspondent): The Urban Development Department has inked MoUs with separate companies for water supply in four cities including Ranchi, Dhanbad, Adityapur and Hazaribagh under Atal Mission For Rejuvenation…

Raghubar vows to make Santhal Pargana free from corruption and middlemen

Dumka (By our correspondent): Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das said that if the people have to save Santhal Pargana than
they will have to remove the middlemen from their area who are like ‘termites’…

Mud Festival to be organised in Feb-March in Dumka: Chief Minister

Dumka (By our correspondent): Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das announced that a mud house would be built in Dumka for
which a sum of Rs 2.5 to Rs 3 crore would be sanctioned from the CSR funds and would consist of…

Dacoits loot Rs 35 lakh in Dumka, Another 3 lakh in Godda

Dumka/Godda (By our correspondent): The Santhal Pargana was hit by two major incidents of loot in which the dacoits managed to make away with money having a combined value of about Rs 38 lakh. Armed masked dacoit stormed…

India's heaviest communication satellite put into orbit

Chennai (IANS): India's heaviest and next generation communication satellite with high throughput GSAT-11 was put into orbit by Ariane-5 rocket of Arianespace from French Guiana on Wednesday, the Indian space agency and Arianespace said.

Weighing…

Sensex 200 points down ahead of RBI policy

Mumbai (IANS): Broadly negative global cues and caution ahead of the RBI policy pushed the key indices during the afternoon session on Wednesday to trade over 0.5 percent lower from their previous close .

All the sectoral indices on BSE and…

Extradition blade hanging, Mallya offers to repay 100% bank money

New Delhi (IANS): Absconding liquor baron Vijay Mallya, wanted in a Rs 9,000 crore bank loan default case, on Wednesday offered to pay back "100 percent of the principal amount" as speculations over his extradition were raised after AgustaWestland…