Ranchi | Four people including three women of a family were tortured after being accused of witchcraft in Jharkhand’s Dumka district. A few people from Aswari village under Saraiyahat block of the district forcibly fed them excreta and urine. The four were also tortured with hot iron rods. Despite being treated inhumanly, the victims could neither […]
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Girl marries cousin, family members perform last rites in Jharkhand
Ranchi | Angry over a girl getting married to her cousin, the family members performed her last rites in Jharkhand’s Chatra district, the police said on Tuesday. According to the police, Sabita alias Kiran Kumari, 25, the daughter of Sukhdeo Ram, married Rajdeep Kumar, the son of her uncle Lakhan Ram, four months ago. The family […]
Five children drown in pond in Jharkhand
Ranchi | Five children, including four girls, drowned in a pond in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district on Tuesday, the police said. According to the police, the incident took place in Gadokhar village under Katamdag police station in Hazaribagh district when the children went to take bath in the pond. After one child drowned, the four other children […]
Minor girl on way to tuition classes gang-raped and killed in Jharkhand’s Dumka
Ranchi: A minor girl was gang-raped and killed in Jharkhand’s second capital Dumka on Friday, the second such incident in the Santhal Pargana region of the state in the past one week. According to the police, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped and murdered in Thadi village under the Ramgarh police station in Dumka district on […]
Lalu Prasad gets bail, but will remain in jail
Ranchi: Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad was on Friday granted bail in a fodder scam case, but the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President will remain in jail for his involvement in other cases. The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to Lalu Prasad in the Chaibasa treasury fraud case. Justice Apresh Singh granted him […]
Jharkhand: FIR against Tej Pratap Yadav for violating pandemic rules
Ranchi: Ranchi Police on Friday lodged an FIR against Tej Pratap Yadav, former Bihar health minister and son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, for violating the Jharkhand government’s order during the Covid-19 pandemic, officials said. The FIR has been filed on the complaint of Circle Officer (CO) Prakash Kumar of Ranchi. Kumar in a written […]
JMM chief Shibu Soren, wife test corona positive
Ranchi: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha President and Rajya Sabha MP Shibu Soren and his wife Rupi Soren have tested positive for coronavirus, their son and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren tweeted on Saturday. “Both of them are in home isolation and undergoing treatment. With the good wishes of the people of the state, they will be […]
Jharkhand CM in home quarantine after minister tests positive
Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has quarantined himself after Health Minister Banna Gupta was found coronavirus positive. Banna Gupta had attended a cabinet meeting presided over by the Chief Minister at the state secretariat in Ranchi on Tuesday. Three hours after the cabinet meeting, Banna Gupta’s test report was found positive. So far, the […]
BJP legislator accused of sexual exploitation gets bail
Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to a BJP legislator accused of sexual exploitation. According to the lawyer of BJP legislator Dhullu Mahto, the high court granted him bail after he spent 81 days in jail. Mahto, a legislator from the Baghmara Assembly constituency in Dhanbad district, had surrendered before the court […]
Covid-19 kills five of a family in a span of 15 days
Ranchi: A family has lost five members in just 15 days to the coronavirus pandemic in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district. The family was celebrating a marriage in June and now hardly any male member is left to perform the rituals for the dead. A 88-year-old woman arrived here in June to participate in a family function. […]