An illegal coal mine at Rautpara in Badam village Hazaribag: Hazaribag police, continuing the administrative crackdown on unlawful mining, destroyed three illegal coal mines at Rautpara in Badam village under the Barkagaon police station limits on Sunday.Officer in-charge of the Barkagaon police station, Deepak Kumar Singh, said, “Acting on the instructions of Hazaribag SP Aman…
Hazaribag: A month-long drinking water quality testing campaign across all 16 blocks of Hazaribag district has found all 15,529 samples collected from different sources to be within prescribed safety limits, officials said on Wednesday.The exercise was conducted by the drinking water and sanitation department on the directions of deputy commissioner Hemant Sati to assess drinking…
Hazaribag: Two alleged members of the Rahul Dubey gang were arrested and a country-made loaded pistol, two live cartridges, two magazines, two phones, and an SUV seized during an operation on the Giddi-Mandu Road, police said on Tuesday.The arrested accused were identified as Mohit Singh alias Kunal, 19, and Bhola alias Om Prakash Pal, 34….
Ranchi: A special CBI court in Ranchi on Monday awarded three-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) to contractor Jhaman Prasad in the road construction department’s bitumen scam case in Hazaribag district. It also imposed a fine of Rs 40,000 on the convict under each of the sections 468 and 471 of the IPC .The convicted contractor was…
Hazaribag: A 25-year-old farmer died after his tractor overturned in Barkagaon block on Sunday evening. The deceased Gobind Mahto was a resident of Mahudi village in Kandtari panchayat. Police said Mahto lost control of his tractor due to a malfunction in its steering wheel. He died on the spot. “The body was handed over to…
Hazaribag: A 14-year-old teenager died, and two others sustained serious injuries in a bike accident at Pipradih village under Nayatanr Panchayat in Barkagaon block.The deceased has been identified as Ashwin Yadav. The injured youths Manish Yadav (15) and Karan Yadav (20) are undergoing treatment at Barkagaon CHC.Karan’s mother Sunita Devi said that the accident occurred…
Hazaribag: Tension prevailed in Barkagaon area of Hazaribag district on Tuesday after a group of unidentified persons allegedly stormed the office of BGR Infra Mining — the mine developer and operator for the Badam coal project — and vandalised property on a large-scale. One person has been arrested in connection with the incident while probe…
