Ramgarh: Three women farmers were killed and two others injured in separate lightning strikes in villages in Ramgarh district on Sunday, police said.Patratu police station officer in-charge Shivlal Gupta said Rekha Devi, 45, and Roshani Kumari, 21, were working in a paddy field at Sankul village when lightning struck, killing them on the spot.In another…
Hazaribag: A power department employee was killed after being hit by a speeding tractor at Baba Path Chowk in Hazaribag town on Thursday. He was identified as Ajay Thakur, an employee of the Hazaribag electricity department and a native of Patratu.According to police, Thakur was on way for work when a speeding tractor knocked him…
CM Hemant Soren chairs a review meeting of the department on Monday Ranchi: Chief minister Hemant Soren on Monday asked govt officials to identify underground coal mining regions across the state and prepare a roadmap for developing them as tourism destinations. He also stressed on the need for setting up eco-tourism circuits in districts which…
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…
Ramgarh: Six miscreants were arrested and a juvenile detained allegedly while they were planning to commit a crime. Sophisticated firearms and ammunition were seized from them, police said.The arrested have been identified as Bittu Kumar Ravi (33) from Tandwa in Chatra, Vikas Sao (25) and Vishal Kumar (19), Hiralal Kumar (22), Digambar Prajapati alias Degan…
