WEST SINGHBHUM

Four Maoists, including a woman, were killed in a police encounter in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Monday morning. The gunfight occurred in the Tonto and Goilkera area. Two Maoists have also been arrested. Additional information about the ...

Polling parties and materials were air-dropped in 126 polling stations in Singhbhum, the officials said and added that apart from that, about 100 polling parties were dispatched via a special train from Chakradharpur to Rourkela. Upon reaching their...

The DC said the constituency has more than 62 voters who are over 100 years old. Among them is Walter Lakra of Nandpur area within Manoharpur police station limits, who conveyed to the DC his inability to walk to the polling booth. Chaudhary assured...

Addressing a public rally in the Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, Prime Minister Modi said the relationship between BJP and Jharkhand is one from the heart and that if anyone understands Jharkhand and the feelings of the people here, then it is only...

Arjun Munda and Joba Manjhi filed nominations for Khunti and Singhbhum seats, respectively. Munda won in 2019 by a narrow margin. Manjhi accompanied by Champai Soren for the upcoming polls on May 13.

Twelve Maoists surrendered to security forces in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. The rebels, part of Maoist Misir Besra's group, were operating in the Saranda and Kolhan regions, known for Asia's densest Sal forest....

Singhbhum Lok Sabha seat in Jharkhand will vote after years due to Maoist insurgency. 118 booths will be set up in remote locations. Security forces conducted Operation Anaconda and established 15 new camps.

"We are committed to ensuring that no voter is left out... we have identified many areas where polling will be conducted for the first time or after nearly two decades as these locations were badly affected by Maoist insurgency," West Singhbhum Depu...

"The Maoists have been planting IEDs to target security personnel on a massive anti-Naxal operation launched on January 11 in the core Kolhan area of the district.

Replying to a written question, Rai said the number of LWE-related deaths (security forces and civilians) has reduced from an all-time high of 1005 in 2010 to just 98 in 2022. The minister said the decline in geographical spread of violence is also ...

The three injured commandos were airlifted to a hospital in Ranchi, he said, adding that their condition is stable. Acting on a tip-off that a large number of Maoists have gathered, a search operation was started in the forest on Wednesday. Soon, a ...

In course of the operation, a police statement said the security personnel detected five IEDs planted by CPI (Maoists) to target them in Banki Luia forest on Friday. The bomb disposal squad defused the explosives on the spot. Besides, the security p...

Cyclone 'Yaas', packing winds of up to 130-145 kmph, whiplashed the country's eastern coasts on Wednesday, before losing its force to an extent as it hollered on its destructive path to Jharkhand.

Sheets of rain blurred the vast coastline, as the cyclone made landfall around 9 am near Dhamra port in Odisha, with surging waters swamping the mud-and-thatch houses in the low-lying areas, where a massive evacuation drive has been undertaken to mo...

The DIG said that after several rounds of firing, the Naxals fled deep inside the forest. He said that the police force led by Assistant Superintendent of Police cum Chakradharpur Sub-Divisional Police Officer Nathu Singh Meena challenged the Naxals.

The Vedanta group and Jharkhand Mineral Development Corporation (JSMDC) would jointly set up the plant. The steel plant of West Singhbhum district is one of such projects.

Going online was supposed to clean up and smoothen functioning of government schemes like the rural job guarantee scheme MGNREGS.

The CBI had asked for certain documents relating to the case and these have been handed over by the company to them, an official who did not wish to be named said.

NMDC signed an MoU in June with the Jharkhand government for setting up an Integrated Steel Plant, through the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) route.