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The New Indian Express
February 23, 2018
RANCHI: Opposition parties in Jharkhand on Friday demanded the arrest of a BJP legislator on the charge of thrashing a land acquisition official over ... Deepu Kumar at Raghunathpur village in Neemdih block, where compensation was being distributed for land acquisition for the National Highway-32ÃÂ ...
The Telegraph
February 23, 2018
Jamshedpur: Using a computer to commit fraud, circulate child pornography, steal identity or intellectual property and violate privacy is nothing new in the country and Jharkhand is no exception. To curb virtual crimes more efficiently, the steel city will become the fifth urban centre in the state after Ranchi,ÃÂ ...
Times Now
February 23, 2018
Ranchi: In a horrific incident, a 15-year-old girl, who had gone to answer nature's call, was gang-raped in Jharkhand's Chatra district and later burnt to death. As per the Jharkhand police, when the teenager, hailing from Humajang village of the district, had gone to answer nature's call on Thursday night,ÃÂ ...
The Telegraph
February 22, 2018
MORE AMENITIES: Chief minister Raghubar Das launches facilities and schemes worth Rs 92.79 crore at New Town Hall in Dhanbad on Thursday. ... MLAs Phulchand Mandal and Dhullu Mahto, Dhanbad mayor Chandrashekhar Agarwal, chief post master general of Jharkhand Shashi Shalini Kujur,ÃÂ ...
Times of India
February 22, 2018
Panaji: Goa's slum population has increased by 81% over a decade, Goa's Economic Survey for 2017-18 has stated. Goa's percentage of slum population to total population, at 1.8% is significantly higher than six larger states, including Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Jharkhand andÃÂ ...
Daily Pioneer
February 20, 2018
Endeavouring hard to bring Jharkhand on global map through its scintillating beauty adorned with abundance forest wraps, heritage attractions and religious sites, Jharkhand Tourism is all set to ... To tap the potentials of the tribal heartland, as many as 10,000 holidaymakers will be visiting the capital city.
The New Indian Express
February 12, 2018
A daily wage labourer from Jharkhand pedalled his bicycle through 65 villages in East Singhbhum district to trace his mentally-unstable wife of 16 years. He finally found her off National Highway 6 near Kharagpur in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal. Manohar Nayak of Baliyagoda village workedÃÂ ...
Indialivetoday
February 8, 2018
Adivasi or Gram Vikas Samiti (GVS) is to be set up in all the 32,000 villages of Jharkhand in view of bringing about development in each village.Let us bear in mind, PESA Act is an Act of the Parliament which has deliberately been left unimplemented. Now just before the central & state elections are due toÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
February 7, 2018
Cops also discovered that the money Solanki lost was transferred through a money transfer app from Kulti village in West Bengal. Following the money trail, the police learnt that a person named Gurmeet Singh had transferred money from Solanki's account into another bank account in Jharkhand.
Daily Pioneer
February 6, 2018
The CM announced that all the villages of Jharkhand including those located in hills and dense forests would be connected by metalled roads by the end of 2019 and electrified by the end of 2018. He said that small water harvesting structures like dova, bora bandh, water tunnel and small check damsÃÂ ...
Business Standard
February 5, 2018
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today said the state government would organise Global Agriculture Summit this year on the pattern of ... Das announced that all the villages of Jharkhand including those located in hills and dense forests would be connected by metalled roads by the end of 2019 andÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
February 2, 2018
The security forces gunned down a senior CPI (Maoist) leader Birbal Oraon, who was recently elevated to the rank of Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area ... Encounters ensued near the Bheetar Pandra village under the Garu police station in the district when the special assault group was combing forestsÃÂ ...
News Nation
February 2, 2018
After dominating the Maoist hit zones, Jharkhand Police officials reopened the schools. Wiped off all Maoist propaganda graffiti from school walls and distributed books and other stationery items. Palamu SP Indrajeet Mahata along with his officers have adopted villages. They regularly visit the hinterlandÃÂ ...
The Wire
February 2, 2018
On December 25, Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow, reportedly died due to starvation in Sonpurwa village of Garhwa district's Majhiaon block. Prior to that on December 1, Premani Kunwar, a 64-year-old widow, had died due to hunger and exhaustion in Danda block of Garhwa district due to glitches inÃÂ ...
onmanorama
February 1, 2018
Dubbed 'Lady Tarzan' for her valiant efforts to save the trees, the 38-year-old woman has turned the East Singhbhum village the new center of ecological conservation in India. Thousands of sal trees in the tribal belt owe their existence to the ritualistic threads tied on them by Jamuna Tadu and other womenÃÂ ...
Times of India
February 1, 2018
The farmers in Jharkhand are often seen going for distress sell in the village haats which can be addressed in case the agriculture market is developed. ... "There is focus on rural connectivity and when the villages would have proper transport facility it would be easy for the farmers to take their produce toÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 31, 2018
LATEHAR (Jharkhand): Five people, including a woman, were killed and seven others critically injured in a head-on collision on Wednesday between a truck and SUV near the ... The victims were returning home in adjoining Palamu district in the SUV after attending a marriage in Hasnapani village.
Economic and Political Weekly
January 31, 2018
The study is based on the Unified DISE (U-DISE) and School Report Card (2013–14) of the selected government elementary (both primary and upper primary) and private schools in selected villages of six major tribal districts in Jharkhand—Ranchi, Dumka, Gumla, Lohardaga, Pakur, and PashchimiÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
January 31, 2018
Patna: Of the 32,620 villages in the state of Jharkhand, one stands out for its lack of legal trouble. For 70 years, say the elders of the 1,500-strong Chetar village, the residents haven't reported a crime to the police or dragged cases to court. “Whenever there is any dispute in the village, we sit together andÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 26, 2018
BARKHETA (LATEHAR): In a village where children are living under the threat of human traffickers, quality education remains a dream far from becoming a reality. Along the mud path, government-run primary school bereft of a boundary wall displays a set of classrooms set out in the middle of farmland.
United News of India
January 24, 2018
Pakur, Jan 24 (UNI) A tribal woman allegedly died of hunger in Dhowadnagal village in Hiranpur block of this Jharkhand district, villagers claimed. ... On receiving news of the incident on Wednesday, Hiranpur BDO and block supplies officer reached the village along with the district supplies officer andÃÂ ...
Daily Pioneer
January 23, 2018
The CM, at the same time, called for the contribution from common people in making the schemes success. “People's participation in making the schemes successful is important. We have formed tribal development committees in every village where the fund would go directly so that the villages can chalkÃÂ ...
Scroll.in
January 23, 2018
Sumitra Soren of Bhurkundi village in Deoghar district of Jharkhand has a greater wisdom in handling drinking water. Her simple practice of keeping drinking water covered in a pot on a raised platform called garsadi or ghirsuri has considerable significance. What Soren practices is not only the revival of anÃÂ ...
NewsClick
January 22, 2018
At least 133 Dalit households have been destroyed in two villages in Deoghar district in Jharkhand to make way for the Deoghar International Airport. Since October 2017, the Dalit residents of Bapugarh and Kathiya villages have been living in makeshift huts. The villagers of Bapugarh, who are all Dalits,ÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 21, 2018
Use of toilet by only 51% villagers in an ODF village is surely not ideal, but it doesn't represent a complete failure of SBM. It shows even in the interiors of Jharkhand, some villagers have begun to use toilets and many more would if the toilets were better built keeping in view the realities of daily life.
The Telegraph
January 7, 2018
Beckbagan: A 35-year-old trader from Jharkhand was found hanging in a hotel room on AJC Bose Road on Sunday. The employees of the hotel in the Beckbagan area broke open the door and found Utsav Khulla hanging from the ceiling with a rope tied around his neck. Khulla had suffered a loss in hisÃÂ ...
Daily Pioneer
January 3, 2018
And, the Jharkhand Renewable Energy Development Agency (JREDA) accomplished the job of electrifying every single village of Jharkhand and thus making the State without any powerless village. As many as 250 such hamlets scattered at forested and hilly areas of Chatra, Latehar, West Singhbhum,ÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
December 28, 2017
Hesal, a tribal village in Jharkhand, has produced many national and international players since 1990. Poor girls work as labourers and ... According to Khunti coach Suresh Mahto, the town could have been a springboard for the rural talent, but the initiative has been lost. The town's astroturf was notÃÂ ...
Times of India
December 27, 2017
Poverty and complete dependence on ration supplies are hard realities in Korta, where 60% of the men have to migrate to faraway cities to support their families. Kunwar, an ageing widow, was clearly more vulnerable than most. The NGO Right to Food Campaign (Jharkhand), which has studied the case,ÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
December 26, 2017
Ramo Birua, the 83-year-old resident of Bhagabila village in Chaibasa, had issued a call to hoist the flag for “a separate Kolhan Estate”, on December 18. ... At the residence of Birua at Matkam Hatu village on the outskirts of Chaibasa town, a woman claiming to be his eldest daughter-in-law but refusing toÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
December 11, 2017
Kissing in public may be a taboo in Indian society, but in this tribal dominated hamlet of Pakur district in Jharkhand, it was cherished as a sport to celebrate love and romance between married couples. Over 18-odd tribal couples locked their lips in the presence of thousands of people in Dumaria village,ÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
December 11, 2017
One such contest was organised in tribal-dominated Dumaria village, located under Littipara assembly constituency in Pakur district, on Saturday. Although the villagers have been organising fairs at this village every year in the memory of Sidhu-Kanhu, Santhal leaders who declared a rebellion againstÃÂ ...
Times of India
December 10, 2017
RANCHI: About 25,000 youth would get employment on January 12, the National Youth Day, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das said today. ... Das said in order to uplift Below Poverty Line (BPL) families, the 'Udyami Sakhi Mandal' would be set up and village coordinators sent to 32,000 villages.
The New Indian Express
December 10, 2017
RANCHI: Apocryphal reports of gold deposits being present in soil deep beneath their homes and farmland had made generations of primitive tribals of Tamar feel proud of their hillside villages. They were gladly vindicated when exploration confirmed the presence of gold five years ago. But now, a monthÃÂ ...
Global Voices Online
December 9, 2017
Sohrai and Khovar, the traditional art forms from the Indian state of Jharkhand, are ritualistic art forms practiced by women. In recent years the art .... Railway stations in towns like Hazaribagh and Jamshedpur now greet travellers with Khovar and Sohrai murals that only adorned village homes until recently.
The Tribune
December 7, 2017
The police have recovered banned currency notes worth over Rs 19 lakh from Sangam Vihar locality under the jurisdiction of Sonari police station here on Thursday. The banned notes were stuffed in two sacks and abandoned, said city Superintendent of Police (SP), Prabhat Kumar. Demonetised currency ...
Times of India
December 7, 2017
RANCHI- Security personnel on Wednesday recovered a huge quantity of explosives, including materials for making IEDs and pressure cookers, from a Maoist den in Jharkhand's Gumla district. Recommended By Colombia. According to Police, the explosives were recovered during a joint operation ...
Avenue Mail
December 7, 2017
Dumka: Chief Minister Raghubar Das today said the state government has developed every sector in the last three years. He said several schemes are being run in the tourism sector. Tourism in Santhal Pargana is being developed. Tourist spots in Masaanjor and Dumka are being developed, he added.
Daily Pioneer
December 7, 2017
Chief Minister Raghubar Das today said that a silent movement is taking place in Jharkhand with Government's resolve for women empowerment. He said that the Government is appointing village coordinators in 32,000 villages through the medium of Chief Minister's small enterprises and making women ...
Hindustan Times
December 7, 2017
The family of a 40-year-old man from Jharkhand's Giridih district, who died while working at a high-rise building in Dubai in November, is waiting for his body for nearly a month. The family of Sukhdev Mahto, a resident of Ambadioh village under Dumri police station, said they have been in touch with ...
The Telegraph
December 7, 2017
Ranchi: If Ara and Keram, two villages on the capital's doorstep, are fast emerging as poster villages of Jharkhand, it is because of the commitment of their residents who are adhering to six basic principals they picked up after visiting Anna Hazare's village, Ralegan Siddhi in Maharashtra, last year.
Hindustan Times
December 7, 2017
A panchayat in Jharkhand allegedly tonsured a villager, smeared cow dung on his face, tied a garland of shoes round his neck and paraded him in the village led by a music band. The kangaroo court in Dhanbad district handed down the punishment after neighbours of the victim moved the panchayat, ...
Scroll.in
December 4, 2017
Premini Kunwar, a resident of Korta village in Garhwa district, died on Friday afternoon. Villagers had alleged that she had died because she was denied ration for a couple of months despite having a valid card. They said she had been surviving on meals from neighbours, reported The Indian Express.
Hindustan Times
December 4, 2017
The police said that Ravi took her admit card and pasted his photograph to appear for the test and even managed to get inside the exam hall in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur. But he was spotted by an examiner at Narbheram Hansraj High School in steel city's Bistupur locality, who found the that the examinee ...
The Indian Express
December 3, 2017
The officials said that post-mortem has revealed presence of foodgrains in her stomach. According to Garhwa district officials, Premani Kunwar, wife of late Mutur Mahato, and a resident of Korta village in Garhwa district, died on Friday afternoon. The administration was informed about the death when some ...
Hindustan Times
December 3, 2017
Jharkhand topped the chart of witch-hunting murders in the country with 27 women lynched after being accused of witchcraft in 2016, according to annual figures released by the National Crime ... In August 2015, people of a Ranchi village lynched five tribal women for allegedly practising witchcraft.
Times of India
December 3, 2017
Premni Kunvar, a resident of Korta village in Garhwa district, about 180km from Ranchi, was a beneficiary of Antyodaya Anna Yojna, a central scheme that provides the poor with subsidised foodgrains. But locals said she was denied rations despite holdin g an AAY card. Sub-divisional magistrate Pradeep ...
Hindustan Times
December 3, 2017
On October 29, 45-year-old Rajendra Mahato, a block level office bearer of the party was shot dead at a stone's throw from his residence in Darla village, around 60 kilometers from state capital Ranchi. The PLFI is one of the 17 splinter Maoist groups active in Jharkhand, where 21 of the 24 districts are left ...
The Indian Express
December 2, 2017
The incident was reported in Tilaiya police station area of Jharkhand's Koderma district. A case has been registered under IPC and Protection of Children against Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. According to the police, the parents of the girl approached police on Friday afternoon accusing the principal, ...
Times of India
December 2, 2017
RANCHI- A school principal was arrested on charges of raping a six-year-old girl in Jharkhand's Koderma district. According to police, S. Xavier, Principal of Tilaiya Public School, was arrested after the girl's father filed a complaint against him at the Tilaiya police station. The principal allegedly raped the girl ...
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