Aurangabad: Police arrested four drug traffickers and seized 83.969kg of ganja in a major anti-narcotics operation near Barun in Aurangabad district on Friday night.Superintendent of Police Upendra Nath Verma said Barun police received a tip-off around 7.35pm that a consignment of narcotics was to be traded near Balbu Gupta Hotel. Acting on the input, a…
Daltonganj: Three frontline staffers of the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) have received the National Tiger Conservation Authority’s Award for Excellence for helping voluntarily relocate 22 families from Jaigir village in 2025.The awardees are range officer Umesh Dubey, field attendant Kumar Dharmveer and forest guard Gaurang Swansi, posted in PTR’s south division.Kumar Ashish, deputy director of…
Daltonganj: The SOP for conducting post-mortem examinations at night is allegedly being ignored in Palamu, prompting Rajesh Yadav, SDPO Sadar, Daltonganj, to remind police and health officials to follow rules issued by the state health, medical education and family welfare department in Feb 2021.In a July 8 letter to officers in-charge of police stations and…
Daltonganj: The Palamu administration has launched an infrastructure audit of govt schools following reports of unsafe classrooms, falling plaster from ceilings, damaged doors and windows, roof leakages and other structural risks that could endanger students.In the first phase of the exercise, district education officer (DEO) Sandeep Kumar, acting on the directions of deputy commissioner Dilip…
Daltonganj: A 26-year-old man from Palamu district was arrested from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly strangling a realtor to death with four others in April this year. The accused, identified as Prashant Tiwary, is a resident of Barkagaon village under Sadar police station limits.He was brought to Daltonganj on a transit permit and remanded…
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: Two cows were electrocuted after allegedly coming in contact with an illegally electrified barbed wire fence installed around a green gram field at Tara village in Palamu district on Friday, prompting police to lodge a case against the farmer.Police said the field belongs to Asfak, a resident of Tara village, who had fenced his…
Daltonganj: Police on Monday claimed to have solved the murder case of a 38-year-old man, whose body was found at Belhara in Palamu district on May 9. The victim was later identified as Vishal Yadav.Bishrampur SDPO Chiranjeev Mandal said that Yadav allegedly stoned to death after a row over gargling with cold drink.Police said Yadav…
Daltonganj: In a rare instance of community cooperation, villagers of Sohdaag Khurd under Nawa Bazar block in Palamu district have voluntarily withdrawn from cultivating around seven acres of forest land they had been using for years to make way for a nursery of the forest department.Despite repeated warnings from the department, the locals had been…
