Ranchi: An advent pastoral letter of the Ranchi Catholic Archdiocese on Saturday asked all faithful to strengthen family bonds and prepare themselves for a more spiritual Christmas celebration this year.“We call upon all faithful to commemorate the coming of Jesus Christ with an abundance of joy and happinessthough with seriousness and restraint. Christmas is the […]
Ranchi: Hours after chief minister Hemant Soren said he won’t attend the INDIA bloc’s proposed meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday, the Congress which was hosting the meeting, decided to postpone it to the third week of December. Other than Soren, other CMs Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), M K Stalin (Tamil Nadu), Nitish Kumar (Bihar) […]
Ranchi: Governor C P Radhakrishnan is all set to inaugurate the fortnight-long door-to-door campaign of the Jharkhand chapter of Vishwa Hindu Parishad across the state next month to create awareness about the inauguration of the upcoming Ram Temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya.“Our door-to-door campaign will begin in Jharkhand from January 1. We will reach out […]
Ranchi: Following poor performance in the five-state elections, dissidents in the state Congress on Tuesday demanded reconstitution of the Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee to prevent similar setback in next year’s twin elections. They also demanded appointing a tribal/moolvasi as the state party head. Raising questions over the incumbent president Rajesh Thakur, Alok Dubey, currently under […]
RANCHI: Daytime temperatures in Ranchi and Jamshedpur dropped by five to eight degrees Celsius below normal on Tuesday morning as cyclone Michaung, which made landfall in Andhra Pradesh, caused heavy cloud cover and brought light showers in parts of southern and central Jharkhand.Daytime temperature in Ranchi dipped to 20.7 degrees Celsius on Tuesday and recorded […]
Ranchi: To foster gender equality, an awareness campaign, ‘Nayi Chetna’, began in government schools across the state from Tuesday. The state education department in collaboration with the Jharkhand Council of Educational Research and Training (JCERT) and the Center for Catalyzing Research launched the programme.Each school will conduct a 40-minute class daily as part of the […]
RANCHI: The National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), in its recently published report, has said though the overall number of cases registered for crimes against women has decreased in Jharkhand in 2022 compared to 2021, the state has the highest rate of cases in the country under the Dowry Prohibition Act.The NCRB report has also said […]
Ranchi: Continuing with its investigations into land scams and money laundering cases in the state, the ED on Tuesday measured the land area of the Berlin Hospitallocated in the Bariyatu area of the city. According to sources, the land belongs to the wife of a senior IAS officer working in the state. The sources said […]
Ranchi: The Jharkhand high courton Monday took a serious view of the shoot-out on the Dhanbad jail premises on Sunday that led to the killing of a notorious gangster from Uttar Pradesh, Aman Singh. On Monday, a division bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra ordered the inspector general (prisons), Uma Shankar Singh, to […]
Jamshedpur: Police on Monday seized posters and banners of Maoist from Sonua-Lanjo stretch under the Sonua police station limits in Chakradharpur sub-division of West Singhbhum district.The ultras, through the posters and the banners, declared to set booby traps in the ‘extremist-dominated’ areas as long as the police and the paramilitary forces continue with the anti-insurgency […]
