Giridih (Jharkhand), May 18 (IANS) Mobile towers in Jharkhand are increasingly becoming the stage for dramatic displays of love, defiance and emotional outbursts. In yet another incident resembling the iconic ‘Veeru’ scene from the blockbuster film Sholay, a youth in Giridih district climbed a nearly 200-foot-high mobile tower on Monday, demanding that his family arrange his marriage with his girlfriend, triggering panic and drawing huge crowds to the spot.The incident took place in Motileda vil…
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Giridih, May 13 (IANS) In a startling revelation from Jharkhand’s Giridih district, cyber criminals were found operating a sophisticated fraud network from deep inside forest areas to evade police detection. Acting on a tip-off, the Giridih cyber police busted a makeshift ‘control room’ hidden in the Charanbari and Kothahariya forests under Bengabad police station limits and arrested six accused involved in large-scale cyber fraud.The operation was carried out under the direction of Giridih SP…
Chaibasa/Ranchi, Jan 23 (IANS) Security forces scored another success in the ongoing anti-Naxal operation in Jharkhand’s Saranda forest as a woman Maoist was killed in a fresh encounter on Friday morning, officials said. The exchange of fire took place between the remote villages of Kumdi and Hinjodiri under the Kiriburu police station area in Naxal-affected West Singhbhum district.With this, the total number of Maoists killed in the operation has risen to 16.On Thursday, 15 Maoists, including…
Giridih (Jharkhand), Dec 22 (IANS) In a shocking and gruesome incident, a woman was brutally attacked with boiling oil after she resisted an alleged molestation attempt by two youths in Gadi village under Leda Panchayat in the Mufassil police station area of Giridih district, Jharkhand, police officials said on Monday. According to police, two youths allegedly poured boiling oil on the woman on late Sunday evening after she resisted a molestation bid.The victim, who sustained severe burn injurie…