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The awareness campaign is largely aimed at reaching out to people explaining them about the health hazards, environmental impact as well as stringent legal provisions

Baghel, on Wednesday, announced a financial assistance of ₹50 lakh each to families of four farmers and a journalist killed in the incident of violence in Lakhimpur Kheri following which Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi also made a similar announcement.

Attacking the UP government, that had barricades put up at the border it shares with Jharkhand, the state unit chief said they were stopped despite informing the UP government of its plans

Thakur claimed the Uttar Pradesh government was forced to set Priyanka Gandhi free from house arrest as they started feeling the heat when Congress workers began arriving in Lakhimpur-Kheri from across the country.

BJP MLA from Dhanbad Raj Sinha later said people of Wasseypur generally do not approach him for work but whenever they do, he does solve their problems.

While the police admitted that Singh was not a Maoist, a case was filed under Arms Act against all six youths, including the deceased. The case was later transferred to the CID.

The Hemant Soren government on June 22 amended the Tribes Advisory Council (an advisory body that deliberates and helps the government with issues related to tribes and their development in states that have areas classified under the fifth schedule of the Constitution), transferring the power of constituting the TAC from the office of the Governor to the CM.

Physical hearings in district courts resumed on October 1, as directed by the high court.

The deceased were identified as Onmo Khandait (50), his wife Maani Khandait (48), their son Gobra Khandait (22) and his son Basudev Khandait (4).

The Building Construction Department said that the Bill of Quantities has been finalised and the financial bid from prospective bidders is yet to be opened.

Forty nine-year-old district judge Uttam Anand died on July 28 this year after he was run over by an auto-rickshaw when he was out for a morning walk in Dhanbad

This comes a few days after a nationwide strike, or Bharat Bandh, was held on Monday following a call by one of the farmers’ bodies to mark the first anniversary of the three controversial farm laws getting Presidential assent.

The couple’s minor daughter was also injured during the incident, and was currently undergoing treatment

A deputy commandant rank officer died after he was injured in an encounter with suspected members of JJMP, a splinter group of CPI (Maoists), in Jharkhand’s Latehar district on Tuesday

The Jharkhand Assembly in November last year passed a unanimous resolution seeking the Sarna tribal religious code in the 2021 census

All major political parties, barring the BJP, extended support to the call. Workers of the JMM, Congress, RJD and Left hit the streets in state capital Ranchi, holding traffic for a while at the arterial Albert Ekka Chowk in the morning

The bench observed that the case has shaken the morale of the judiciary. Time is the essence of this investigation, it said. The more time is spent, harder it will be to ascertain the truth, the bench stated

On July 28, judge Anand was brought dead to a hospital about an hour after he was hit by the auto rickshaw in Dhanbad when he was out on a morning walk. Appearing before the HC bench, the CBI informed the court that judge’s death was not an accident.

The scheme was first launched in 2014 when the incumbent Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren was in power. However, it was soon discontinued when BJP’s Raghubar Das became the CM the same year.

The OBCs currently get 14 percent quota in the state, and increasing it was an electoral promise of all mainstream parties in 2019, including the ruling alliance--JMM-Congress-Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)---in the current dispensation.

As per the complaint, the girl was out to attend nature’s call with two other girls from her neighbourhood when they were chased by the five accused. While the other two girls managed to flee, the 16-year-old was abducted, and gang-raped

Last week, chief minister (CM) Hemant Soren stirred row in an interview with the Hindustan Times, saying that languages like Bhojpuri and Magahi have been kept out, as they are “borrowed languages” from Bihar.

The tragedy occurred at Bukru village within Balumath police station limits when the girls had gone to the pond for immersion after Karma Puja, a major festival in Jharkhand, Deputy Commissioner Abu Imran said.

In a recent interview with the Hindustan Times on Sunday, the Jharkhand chief minister (CM) desribed Bhojpuri and Magahi languages as “imported languages from Bihar”, besides underlining that people, who allegedly raped women during Jharkhand’s separate statehood Jharkhand, “used to abuse in Bhojpuri”.

According to the report, the consultants concerned did not conduct the required geotechnical investigations, hydrological and traffic data analysis