Daltonganj: A 12-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed to death by a villager at Rabda in Palamu district on Monday, police said. The deceased was identified as Roshan Baitha.Police said Roshan, a student of the local primary school, was stabbed multiple times in the neck and stomach by the accused, Anil Baitha, 40, a co-villager, between…
Daltonganj: A 36-year-old woman escaped with injuries after an adult bear accompanied by two cubs attacked her in the Mahuadarn range of Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) on Friday evening, officials said. This was the third bear attack in a week.Sources said Ismita Nagesia and her husband, Ramesh, were returning home to Longra Tola hamlet in…
Daltonganj: Two persons, including a 55-year-old habitual narcotics trader from Haryana, were arrested in Palamu district with 48.2 kg of poppy straw (husk) and 230 grams of ready-to-use opium during a late-night anti-crime checking drive, police said on Saturday. Both were remanded to judicial custody. The entire consignment is worth around Rs 22 lakh.Palamu SP…
Daltonganj: Hussainabad Assembly constituency in Palamu has shown a stark contrast in the distribution of enumeration forms during the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Sources said only 11% of enumeration forms were distributed by the BLO of booth number 121 in the first 10 days of the statewide SIR exercise. A polling booth has…
Daltonganj: A 25-year-old man was rescued from illegal confinement after being held captive for five days, allegedly by a labour supplier seeking to recover Rs 3 lakh he claimed was owed to him. The accused was arrested and sent to judicial custody, police said on Tuesday.Palamu SP Kapil Chaudhary said the victim, Upender Bhuiyan, 25,…
Daltonganj: A 25-year-old tourist from Garhwa district drowned in the Sugga Bandh waterfall under the Bareysanr range of the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Latehar district, officials said on Monday.The deceased was identified as Ayush Tiwary, a technocrat posted outside Jharkhand who was working from home for the past several weeks, forester (in-charge) Saket Pandey…
Daltonganj: A zonal commander of the banned CPI (Maoist), identified as Baijnath Singh alias Chandan Kharwar, 52, was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment by a Latehar court on Friday, police said.Additional district and sessions judge (first) also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Singh. He was sentenced in a case registered in 2023…
A motorist navigates rain in Ranchi on Thursday Ranchi: Ranchi office of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday issued an orange alert for all 24 districts in the state on Friday and Saturday.IMD daily weather bulletin on Thursday said that the state is likely to experience moderate thunderstorm and lightning activities accompanied with strong…
Daltonganj: Three months after a private dental clinic in Hariharganj town was sealed following the death of a woman due to a botched tooth extraction procedure, Palamu civil surgeon Dr Anil Kumar Srivastava on Saturday announced the sealing of another clinic at Lesliganj following a C-section procedure that led to the death of a newborn…
Ranchi: The Ranchi office of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a yellow alert for 20 districts across Jharkhand forecasting thunderstorm, lightning and wind activities on Tuesday and Wednesday. The alert was sounded for the districts except for Chatra, Latehar, Garhwa and Palamu districts.“Thunderstorms, lightning and wind gusting up to 40-50 kmph are…
