- Thu, 9 Sep, 2010, 11:40 am -

Ranchi: The 36 year old Kudko Murders is still haunting former CM Shibu Soren. The hearing in the case was complete and the lone accused Shibu Soren is facing the judgement of the Giridih Court on Tuesday. ..details..

Ranchi: Jharkhand Governor M O H Farook held the first cabinet meeting with his three Advisors V S Dubey, Wilfred Lakra and RR Prasad after the imposition of President’s Rule in the State this month. The Cabinet approved three proposals. ..details..

Ranchi: VHP General Secretary Praveen Togadia blamed the Congress for continuing the British policy of ‘Divide & Rule’. The census based on castes is a direct example of dividing the Hindu community per se alleged tagodia. He vehemently opposed it and went to the extent of stating that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) would organize a nationwide agitation to protest the step. ..details..

Ranchi: Planning Commissioner Sunil Barnwal stated that every village will have the social auditing completed within the next fortnight. He stated this at a workshop in Ranchi on Saturday. He reiterated the stand that women would get the agreed 1/3rd reservation. All the members conducting the audit would be imparted training, he added. ..details..

Ranchi: Home Minister P C Chidambaram is likely to visit Ranchi on the 5th of this month, according to reliable sources in the Raj Bhavan. It is expected that his visit will speed up the ‘Operation Green Hunt’. ..details..

Ranchi: The entire State was held to ransom from 6AM till 5.30PM by the 6500 workers from 11 unions of the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB). It was a virtual black-out as transmission of power was stopped by the striking workers. Even the entire staff of PTPS and TVNL joined the strike. ..details..

Ranchi: Special Session of Jharkhand Assembly has been summoned on 31st. According to JMM’s leader in the House, Hemant Soren, the Party has the magic numbers to prove its majority. The situation looks dicey as both the Congress as well as the BJP are reluctant to tie the knot with Shibu at the helm. ..details..

Ranchi: Governor M O H Farook summoned CM Shibu Soren to Raj Bhavan and gave him seven days time to prove his majority in the house. The situation arose after BJP withdrew its support to the four month old Shibu led JMM government. ..details..

Ranchi: The political stalemate in the State continued for the sixteenth day in succession as the BJP top brass were unable to name the CM even today. BJP president met the two observers Rajnath Singh and Ananth Kumar after their return from Ranchi on Wednesday but the two hour long discussions yielded no result. The matter was further stalled for another couple of days. ..details..

Ranchi, May5, 2010: In keeping with its objective of churning out future leaders for a country that is exposed to an open economy business environment, Unitedworld School of Business plans to start its first international campus in Singapore from the coming academic session. ..details..

Ranchi: Deputy CM Raghubar Das has been given an appointment with the Jharkhand Governor for handing over the letter of withdrawal of support to the Shibu government. The letter was to be handed over today itself but due to unavoidable reasons Raghubar Das was stranded in Delhi. ..details..

Ranchi: The nation wide 12 hour bandh call given by 13 political parties and the second day of the naxal bandh brought the normal life in the State to a standstill. Trains were cancelled or rescheduled, many flights cancelled and the inter-state bus services remaing off the roads for the second day in succession. ..details..

Senior police officials of Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh met at Gumla to work out strategy for tackling the rising naxalite problem. Jharkhand’s South Chotanagpur IG Rezi Dung Dung and Sarguja Zone IG L. K. Tewary took part in the meeting along with SPs from Jashpur and Balrampur and Lohardaga ..details..

Ranchi: The joint Press Conference (PC) of Congress & JVM addressed by Radha Krishna Kishore and Pradeep Yadav warned the CM Shibu Soren of misleading the people on his by-election matter. ..details..

Ranchi: The apathy of JSEB came to light on Wednesday in the Jharkhand High Court. Replying to a PIL filed by advocate M S Mittal seeking the Court’s directive to the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission to invite private licensees to supply electricity to Jharkhand, the DVC counsel S B Gadodia said that it is astonishing that the JSEB has failed to draw the total allotted electricity from different pools for distribution to consumers. ..details..

Ranchi: RJD Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav has put his stamp of approval on Girinath Singh’s name as president of Jharkhand RJD. He took the decision after consulting his MLAs in the State. ..details..

Ranchi: To protest the rising prices and saving democratic values, the CPM(Male) has called for a Statewide bandh on 27th April. Addressing media persons in Ranchi, MLA Vinod Singh said that the present government has no feelings for the common public. ..details..

Ranchi: RSS chief Mohan Madukar Bhagwat said that all Indians had the same DNA and the cultural and religious differences may vary from one community to the other bur the fact remains that all are primarily Indians. The unity qand harmony as a Indian should be maintainerds. Bhagwat was addressing a rally of RSS in Ranchi on Sunday. ..details..

Ranchi: The agitation against the PESA act is continuing with the non adivasi sadans carrying forward with their protest after the one day Jharkhand Bandh earlier this week. The Sadans have called for a 48 hour economic blockade in the entire jharkhand from midnight of Friday. ..details..

Ranchi, 15th April: Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), the first multipurpose river valley project of independent India, came into being on July 7, 1948 by an Act of the Parliament. DVC has command area of approx. ..details..