A mentally challenged person was thrashed by a mob for allegedly stealing cows in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand. The victim identified as Afroz was tied to a tree and assaulted by people who saw him roaming with three cows. They suspected him to be a cattle smuggler. Afroz was[Read More…]
Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh is tensed after a mentally-challenged Muslim man allegedly vandalized a Shiva temple on Friday morning. The incident led to stone pelting in four different parts of the district including a mosque and a temple campus. This eventually caused communal tension and a market shutdown, the police said. Annoyed[Read More…]
In Jharkhand, women were seen washing the Chief Minister’s feet on the occasion of Guru Mahotsav. The incident was reported from Jamshedpur, at an event held on Guru Mahotsav at the Brahma Lok Dham, women washed the feet of Chief Minister Raghubar Das on a plate full of flower petals.[Read More…]
Soon after a beef trader, Asgar Ali was lynched near Bazartand area in Ramgarh district on Thursday, an angry mob in Dumka’s Jalve village mercilessly thrashed to death an alleged rape and murder accused identified as Mithun Hansda, 25. This is the third incident of mob violence in Jharkhand in[Read More…]
On Tuesday, one person was allegedly beaten up and part of his house was set on fire by a mob after a dead cow was found outside his house. The incident happened in a village under Deori police station area of Giridih district. Police said that the man has been[Read More…]
The Jharkhand government is going to run 13 jails on solar power as it will amount to considerable savings of power. The initiative will also include the central jail in Ranchi. The establishments recorded savings with solar power plants that take care of 35 percent of their total power needs.[Read More…]
Cow politics in India is shaping up to be more terrible than expected, not only are they creating rifts between communities but also claiming lives. With a ban on beef amidst beefed up cow protection, both religious and communal tensions continue to take a toll on people’s life. In a[Read More…]
Due to scorching heat and extreme shortage of drinking water in the state, villagers have taken up the daunting task of digging a huge pond in Jharkhand. They are digging the pond in the Hundaru township of the state, close to the airport road. There are around five-six townships in[Read More…]
In yet another violent incident, people in Jamshedpur pelted stones at the Munshi Mohalla Masjid on Saturday. The mob continued to throw stones at the masjid and the police did nothing to stop the incident and take control of the situation. A Facebook user had uploaded videos that show the[Read More…]
Some areas in Jamshedpur saw fresh clashes between protestors and the police on Sunday morning. Prohibitory orders were imposed in four parts of the city after there were acts of violence in and around the areas on Saturday. These orders were imposed under Section 144, which disallows more than four[Read More…]
Six people were beaten to death by villagers in three places in Jharkhand on Thursday, over the suspicion that they were child lifters. Local police became a target of the violence too, where two police vehicles were burnt by the angry villagers. In the first incident, two people were beaten[Read More…]
Almost a month after arresting MLA Pradeep Yadav, Jharkhand Police is all set to arrest Congress MLA Nirmala Devi. A magistrate court issued a non-bailable warrant against the Barkagaon MLA. Her husband, Yogendra Saw, the former Congress MLA from this seat, is already in jail.Opposition has termed the move as[Read More…]
In an eye-opening case of addiction, a poverty-stricken alcoholic couple in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district sold its one-and-a-half-month-old baby boy to a quack for Rs 45,000 for buying their daily dose of liquor as per Hindustan Times reports. The couple already has 5 children and all under the age of 10.[Read More…]
Maoist leader Kundan Pahan on Sunday surrendered before police at Ranchi. Pahan, who has 128 murder case including that of a police officer was also carrying a reward of 15 lakhs on his head. Pahan is accused of killing special branch inspector Francis Indwar in 2008 and loot of a[Read More…]
Kundan Pahan, the most wanted Naxalite, considered as Jharkhand’s Veerappan, has surrendered on Thursday. According to the sources, the police took him in possession and are trying to get information from him. While Jharkhand police had kept a reward of Rs 15 lakh on Kundan, a cash reward of Rs[Read More…]
Protest against proposed Adani power plant in Godda district of Jharkhand is intensifying with every passing day. In the latest development, the mass movement was fueled by thousands of poor women who gathered from diverse villages and protested on the streets of Godda with raising slogans against Adani. The locals[Read More…]
Just when we were talking about the government gearing up to label every cow in India with a unique identity number, the Jharkhand government has expeditiously tagged over 12,000 cows with Aadhaar-like 12-digit unique identification (UID) number. Preceding this move, just as the debate over cow vigilantism intensifies after repeated[Read More…]
In Jharkhand, a glitch revealed the digital identities of more than a million citizens on a website maintained by Jharkhand Directorate of Social Security. Throwing many’s privacy into confusion, the glitch also revealed their names, addresses, Aadhaar numbers and bank account details of the beneficiaries of Jharkhand’s old age pension[Read More…]
Jharkhand land acquisition row: Pradeep Yadav, locals refuse to end fast; police arrest MLA The protest against Adani power plant in Godda district of Jharkhand led by Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik (JVM-P) legislator Pradeep Yadav is intensifying with every passing day with locals unwilling to sacrifice their land at any cost.[Read More…]
Protests against the planned power plant of Adani Power in Godda district has entered its 5th day on Wednesday. Led by Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik (JVM-P) legislator Pradeep Yadav, the protest began as hundreds of villagers, who are likely to lose their land, have participated and marched in deadly summer. People[Read More…]
JVM General Secretary and MLA Pradeep Yadav attended his scheduled programme at Gaighat in opposition to the Adani Group’s proposed power plant in Godda. Jharkhand. Due to excessive presence of local police and state reserve police forces, it is being speculated that Yadav is likely to be arrested. Sources say[Read More…]
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) leader in Assembly and general secretary, Pradeep Yadav, is leading the movement againt Adani Group’s proposed 1,600 megawatt power plant in Godda. Yadav warned that any forcible eviction of locals from the area or attempt to grab their land in the name of development, would only further intensify[Read More…]