Ramgarh (Jharkhand), June 13 (IANS) Four youths died after inhaling toxic gas during illegal mining inside an abandoned coal mine in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district on Saturday, officials said.The incident occurred in the Argadda forest area along the Giddi-Ramgarh border, where a group of youths had entered a closed mine for excavation work. Two of the deceased were residents of Ramgarh district, while the other two hailed from Hazaribagh.According to information received, one youth first lost c…
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Hazaribagh, June 9 (IANS) A youth was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district on Tuesday when he was on his way to undertake the Kedarnath pilgrimage, officials said.The victim has been identified as Vicky Soni, a resident of Okni in Hazaribagh town. The incident took place near Karso bridge under the Barhi police station limits of the city.According to police, Vicky Soni was travelling with his friend Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay in a car to Koderma railway station,…
Hazaribagh, June 1 (IANS) The bodies of a brother and sister who had been missing for the past five days were recovered from separate locations in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district, triggering shock and outrage in the area.Police suspect that the children were murdered. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been formed to probe the case.According to police, 12-year-old Tamanna Parveen and her three-year-old brother Rizwan had gone missing from the Katkamdag police station area on May 27 and hav…
Ranchi, May 25 (IANS) The story of the transformation of Dhaneshwar Saw, a Hazaribagh-based commoner, to a noted entrepreneur in his locality, is a testament to the potential and success of the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), a flagship of the Modi government launched a decade ago to give wings to the Micro, Small, and Medium enterprises as well as enterprising individuals. As the PMMY schemes have been around for more than a decade, the success stories of common individuals and small-time e…
Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), May 18 (IANS) Tension erupted outside the Vivekananda Vidyalaya in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district on Monday as hundreds of residents and family members of a Class 10 student staged a protest demanding a fair investigation into her death.Shweta Kumari, 15, allegedly died by suicide after facing sustained mental harassment from a fellow student and alleged intimidation by a teacher, according to her family members.The protest, which continued for nearly an hour outside t…
Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), May 10 (IANS) The district administration in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh has cracked down on the sale of fake NCERT textbooks and registered FIRs against three bookshops under the Copyright Act, officials said on Sunday. The action follows the detection of the sale of counterfeit Class 9 NCERT books in the city.The shops named in the FIRs are Sangam Book Depot, Gyan Bhandar-1, and Gyan Bhandar-2.The action has caused a stir among book traders in the city. The district admini…
Ranchi, April 28 (IANS) Suspended IAS officer Vinay Chaubey, who has been in judicial custody for the past nearly 11 months in the high‑profile Sevayat land irregularities case in Jharkhand, suffered a major setback on Tuesday as the Jharkhand High Court rejected his bail plea.After the arguments were completed from both sides, the court reserved its order on Thursday, and the decision was pronounced on Tuesday.The case relates to ACB Case No. 11/2025. Chaubey is accused of playing a role in t…
Hazaribagh, April 27 (IANS) In a tragic road accident in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district on Monday, a mother and her son lost their lives on the spot after the car they were travelling in rammed into a stationary Hyva truck parked along the roadside. Two other members of the family sustained critical injuries in the crash.According to police and local sources, the incident occurred under the Muffasil police station limits when the family of Mahavir Prasad was returning from a wedding ceremony …
New Delhi/Hazaribagh, April 25 (IANS) The CBI conducted searches at the home of a Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) manager arrested in a corruption case in Hazaribagh, recovering Rs 21 lakh cash, jewellery, property papers and other digital evidence, an official said on Saturday. Ravi Ranjan Kumar, arrested on Thursday for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh, was produced in a Special CBI Court in Ranchi that remanded him to judicial custody, the CBI said in a statement.The CBI said th…
New Delhi/Hazaribagh, April 24 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has apprehended a manager of the Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) in Hazaribagh for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh, officials said on Friday. According to a press release issued on April 24, 2026, the premier central agency registered a case on April 23 against the accused, Ravi Ranjan Kumar, who was serving as a Manager at the Central Warehousing Corporation in Hazaribagh. According to the press st…