Everything you need to know about Chatra Mdg: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Chatra Mdg: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) Two people were injured and train movement was hit when the engine and three coaches of Kolkata-Haldibari Intercity Express got derailed in West Bengal's Birbhum Tuesday, the Eastern Railway said.
Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) A day after the Presidency University here was vandalised by student activists, police Thursday arrested two of the attackers.
Kolkata, April 11 (ANI): Kolkata Police on Thursday said that they had arrested two persons in connection with Wednesday's vandalism of the Presidency University.
Ranchi, April 7 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas blew up a railway track in Jharkhand to enforce a two-day shutdown called by them to protest the killing of their members by another splinter group last month, police said Sunday.
Jharkhand, Mar 28 (ANI): Police in Jharkhand's |Chatra District have confirmed the death of ten Maoists in an encounter that took place late on Wednesday night.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Mar 24 (ANI): Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday visited Maoists affected Jharkhand's Chatra District.
Daltonganj, Feb 16 (ANI): In a major success for the Jharkhand Police, a top Maoist leader wanted in over 32 cases was arrested in rebel hotbed region of Palamu district of the state.
Chatra District (Jharkhand), Feb.13 (ANI): Floriculture is proving to be a boon for farmers of Gidhaur village in Jharkhand's Naxal-hit Chatra District.
Ranchi, Jan. 8 (ANI): Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (JPCC) chief Pradip Balmuchu on Tuesday said that his party would decide the future course of action only after Shibu Soren's Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), which has finally withdrawn support to the BJP-led Arjun Munda Government, comes forward with its proposal.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Jan. 2 (ANI): Farmers here, one of the worst Maoist-affected districts in Jharkhand, were once forced to cultivate poppy by the rebels to fund their operations in the region, but now with the decline of Maoist activity, the situation in the area is taking a turn for the better. Farmers are now engaged in growing vegetables.
Kolkata, Oct 13 (IANS) In the wake of gangrape of a student allegedly by members of Trinamool Congress' students wing, the party's rebel MP Kabir Suman Saturday blamed "irresponsible comments" by the leadership including party supremo Mamata Banerjee for the rising instances of crime in West Bengal.
Chatra(Jharkhand), Oct.12 (ANI): Over 200 members of the Kharba tribe of Manjipeda village in Jharkhand's Chatra district have been leading miserable lives since 1996.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Oct.1 (ANI): Connectivity is of great importance for villagers across Jharkhand. People need roads, bridges and railways to get access to towns and cities.
Chatra District (Jharkhand), Sep.28 (ANI): Naxals do not want children to be educated so that they can force them into joining their outfits.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Sept 18 (ANI): A Maoist was killed and three security personnel were critically injured in a gun battle here on Tuesday.
Latehar, Sep 9 (ANI): Following a change of heart after spending six years in jail, former Maoist commander, Ranjan Yadav, has planned to venture into politics.
Mumbai, Aug 15 (IANS) Third seed Harsh Chouhan outplayed Kairan Kapadia to enter the men's singles semi-finals of the Mumbai Suburban District Badminton Championships at the Celebration Club, Andheri here Tuesday.
Ranchi, July 20 (IANS) A top Maoist leader, carrying a Rs.17 lakh reward on his head, was killed in a gun battle with policemen in Jharkhand's Chatra district Friday, police said.
Ranchi, April 13 (IANS) Seven people were electrocuted to death in Jharkhand's Chatra district when an electric wire carrying 11,000 volts fell on a jeep carrying them, police said
Latehar, Dec 4(ANI): At least five policemen were killed in an attack on Independent Lok Sabha member from Chatra and former Jharkhand Assembly Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari on Saturday.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Oct 23 (ANI): The thick forests in the tranquil village of Jirwa in Simariya Tehsil of Jharkhand's Chatra District belie a gloomy past. With bare land where a lush forest cover stood, the forests had been felled over the years by indifferent and greedy hands.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Oct 9 (ANI): With Maoists continuing to strike fear among residents in parts of Jharkhand, the misery of these folks has been compounded.
Ranchi, July 11 (ANI): Jharkhand police have arrested two Maoists near Mahugaon jungle in Lapung village of Ranchi district.
Chatra (Jharkhand), July 10(ANI): Maoists killed two people in Jharkhand's Chatra district on Sunday after allegedly suspecting the victims of working as 'police informers'.
Guwahati, Jun 28 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday claimed that farmers' leader and anti-corruption activist Akhil Gogoi had links with the Maoists and militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA).
Chatra (Jharkhand), Mar 1 (ANI): Three policemen were killed as the Maoists ambushed a police party late on Monday night in Jharkhand's Chatra District.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Feb 17 (ANI): The residents of Maoist-affected Chatra district in Jharkhand are still awaiting benefits from the pilot developmental project, which was launched in the region three years ago.
Kolkata, Apr 15 (ANI): Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has said there are no Maoists in West Bengal.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Mar 30 (ANI): Suspected Maoists burnt four trucks at a coal mine field in Piparwar in Jharkhand's Chatra District on Tuesday.
Latehar (Jharkhand), Mar 18 (ANI): Maoist sympathisers in Jaharkhand's Latehar district have launched a protest against Operation Green Hunt, an operation launched by the Central Government against the rebels.
Hazaribagh, Jan 23 (ANI): The noble task of sheltering and nurturing HIV-infected children is underway in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district.
Ranchi, Dec 18 (ANI): Over 35 per cent voting has been recorded in the fifth and final phase of assembly elections in Jharkhand so far.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Dec 17 (ANI): Police authorities in poll bound Jharkhand have beefed-up security ahead of the fifth and final phase of election, which is being held tomorrow.
Ranchi/ Raipur, Nov.30 (AN): Disappointed by the public response to their call for two-day closure, Maoists are stepping up violent incidents in their effort to limit public response to the second phase of State Assembly elections in the State. .
Kathmandu, Sep 15 (ANI): Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao met Nepal Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala and discussed various bilateral issues including greater sharing of vital information between the two countries.
New Delhi, Sep 5 (ANI): An independent candidate, Manoj Chaudhury of the Department of Buddhist Studies won the president's post of the Delhi University Student's Union (DUSU) elections on Saturday.
Ranchi, May 27 (IANS) The Jharkhand unit of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) has decided to abandon the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and fight the assembly elections on its own.
Ranchi, May 19 (IANS) The Jharkhand unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has threatened to abandon partner Janata Dal-United (JD-U) for its poor performance in the elections and declared that it would go it alone in the assembly polls.
Ranchi, May 16 (IANS) Kamsheshwar Baitha, jailed Maoist leader and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) candidate for state's Palamau parliamentary constituency, won by a margin of over 21,000 votes.
Ranchi, May 9 (IANS) Two boys charged with stealing a mobile phone were stripped and beaten by a group of about 12 children who were allegedly instigated by news photographers in Jharkhand's Chatra district, police said Saturday.
Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), Apr 30 (ANI): At least ten people were killed and many others injured when an overloaded bus, carrying a marriage party, fell into a 50 foot-deep ditch at Pasaria valley in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh District.
Ranchi, April 17 (IANS) A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper accompanying election officials was killed and three were injured when Maoist rebels triggered a landmine blast in Jharkhand Friday, police said.
Ranchi, April 16 (IANS) Maoist rebels in Jharkhand have called in insurgents from other states to enforce their poll boycott call and carry out violent attacks during the elections, an official said Thursday.
Ranchi, April 16 (IANS) Voting for six Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand began Thursday morning with a large number of security personnel being deployed at polling booths in view of the threat of Maoist violence.
Ranchi, April 16 (IANS) Seven Border Security Force (BSF) personnel going for polling duty were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels in Latehar district of Jharkhand early Thursday, police said. The driver and assistant of the bus in which they were travelling were also killed.
Ranchi, April 14 (IANS) Campaigning ended Tuesday in six of Jharkhand's 14 Lok Sabha seats where polling will be held April 16, with the stage set for a triangular or multi-cornered contest on all the seats.
Ranchi, April 13 (IANS) Six of Jharkhand's 14 Lok Sabha seats that go to polls in the first phase April 16 will witness multi-cornered fights and decide the fate of some high profile candidates like former union minister Yashwant Sinha and former chief minister Babulal Marandi. Two jailed Maoist leaders are also in the fray.
Ranchi, April 7 (IANS) The district administration in Jharkhand's Garwah district Tuesday lodged cases against Railways Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad for landing his helicopter dangerously as well as violating the model code of conduct.
Patna, April 5 (IANS) An outlawed Maoist outfit has expelled one of its senior leaders in Bihar for contesting the Lok Sabha elections, defying the group's poll boycott call.
Ranchi, April 4 (IANS) In true Bollywood style, he says he will be victorious if people give him a place in their hearts. Iqbal Durrani is a scriptwriter for the Hindi film industry and can't help being eloquent while asking people for votes.
Ranchi, April 2 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas blew up a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader's house, a school building and a healthcare centre in Jharkhand's Chatra district, the police said Thursday.
Ranchi, March 26 (IANS) Never mind that Maoists have given an election boycott call. Two jailed rebels in Jharkhand have decided to join the poll fray as candidates of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML).
Patna, March 25 (IANS) Former Bihar agriculture minister Nagmani, who had resigned from the government after ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) denied him a ticket to contest the Lok Sabha polls, Wednesday joined the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
Ranchi, March 23 (IANS) Angry over their party's seat sharing arrangement with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in Jharkhand, some Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers continued their protests for the second day Monday.
Ranchi, March 21 (IANS) Former Jharkhand assembly speaker Inder Singh Namdhari Saturday announced that he would contest the Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate and not on a Janata Dal-United (JD-U) ticket.
New Delhi, Mar 17 (ANI): United Progressive Alliance (UPA) allies Congress and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) arrived at a seat-sharing formula for 14 seats in Jharkhand on Wednesday, leaving only two seats for the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
Latehar/Chatra (Jharkhand), Mar 16 (ANI): Maoists in Jharkhand call for boycott of the general elections, which is scheduled to be held next month.
Kathmandu, March 9 (IANS) Ten people, including an exiled journalist, have begun a fast unto death in Bhutan's Chemgang Central Jail from Monday, a media organisation said.
In Bangladesh, Campus violence is a severe socio-political problem. Sometime this becomes a concern for the government. Political observers said that absence of proper
Ranchi, Jan 26 (IANS) On the 60th Republic Day, Maoist rebels hoisted black flags in some parts of Jharkhand, police sources said Monday.
Ranchi, Jan 25, (ANI): In the upcoming general elections, the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), will contest in six Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand.
Ranchi, Dec 29 (IANS) Three Maoist 'commanders' were arrested in Jharkhand Monday, the police said.
Guwahati, Dec 19 (IANS) Political parties and student groups in Assam rejected demands by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for issuing work permits to Bangladeshi migrants who entered the country after March 25, 1971 and providing refugee status to Hindu infiltrators.
Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), Dec.16 (ANI): Farmers in Jharkhand, who used to nurture plants of poppy seeds for opium, are now shifting to floriculture and enjoying higher profits.
Ranchi, Dec 14 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas blew up the ancestral house of a former minister in Jharkhand's Chatra district, the police said Sunday.
Ranchi, Dec 13 (IANS) Three drug smugglers were arrested and five kg of opium was seized from them in Jharkhand Saturday, the police said.
Ranchi, Nov 4 (IANS) A Committee of Secretaries (CoS) has questioned why there was no post-mortem after the death of nine members of the primitive tribe of Birhors in Jharkhand last month and criticised the administration for the failure to deliver benefits of the schemes meant for such communities.
Ranchi, Oct 31 (IANS) Despite a plethora of welfare schemes, 20 members of three primitive tribes of Jharkhand have died in the last one month, with the government attributing this to food poisoning while social workers say the deaths occurred due to malnourishment.
Ranchi, Oct 18 (IANS) A paramilitary trooper was killed and two were injured in a gun battle with Maoist guerrillas Saturday evening in Jharkhand's Chatra district, police said.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Oct 18 (ANI): A Maoist was killed during a gunfight between the CPI (Maoist) and its breakaway group, Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), in Jharkhand's Chatra District.
Ranchi, Oct 6 (IANS) Advisors to the commissioner appointed by the Supreme Court to look into the tribal deaths in Jharkhand have found that the deaths occurred due to starvation and not food poisoning as claimed by officials of the district administration, against whom action is likely.
Ranchi, Oct 3 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas Friday morning blew up the control room of a mobile phone tower in Jharkhand's Palamau district, the police said.
Ranchi, Oct 2 (IANS) Maoist rebels blew up a school building in Chatra district of Jharkhand, the police said Thursday.
Ranchi, Oct 3 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas Friday morning blew up the control room of a mobile phone tower in Jharkhand's Palamau district, the police said.
Ranchi, Oct 2 (IANS) Maoist rebels blew up a school building in Chatra district of Jharkhand, the police said Thursday.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Sep.10 (ANI): The well-known White Revolution, launched in 1969-70 enabled the country to be counted amongst the world's leading milk producing countries.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Aug. 25 (ANI): Peasants in Jharkhand have taken up mass production of organic fertilizer for better yields.
Dhaka, July 27 (ANI): Hundreds of students of Bangladesh Chatra Dal, the students wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia on Sunday marched towards the president house to handover a charter of demand to the president, demanding the unconditional release of their detained leader and her son Tareq Zia.
At the height of public debate over the Indo-US nuclear deal, the nation now needs to think a lot about its internal security due to rising Naxal
The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday (March 05) lifted the ban on students' union elections that was imposed last year. With this elections
