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‘Holding Indian flag abroad gives you happiness, but it hasn’t gotten me a job’: Jharkhand Adivasi athlete who won Wushu bronze in China

October 27, 2025 11:53 am

Earlier this month, 30-year-old Purnima Linda won two bronze medals at the World Kungfu Championships – her third. But back home, her accomplishment has created no flutter.

5 from UAE-based Prince Khan's gang arrested in Jharkhand, police say they sent weapons through drones via Pakistan

October 23, 2025 3:56 pm

Police allegedly recovered three weapons and several rounds of ammunition from the accused in Ranchi.

CRPF widow who waged 25-year fight for fair pension has her day in court

October 18, 2025 10:55 am

Captain Ravindra Nath Mishra was shot dead in 1995 by his own constable. The Jharkhand High Court pulled up the Union and the Central Reserve Police Force for denying his wife her rights

Low-key OBC leader is new Jharkhand BJP working president: Meet Aditya Prasad Sahu

October 04, 2025 1:01 am

A Rajya Sabha MP since 2022, Sahu has steadily risen through party ranks since 1988. Babulal Marandi says party hopes to benefit from his “extensive political and parliamentary experience”

Vatican-themed Durga Puja pandal irks BJP, VHP in Jharkhand: ‘Probe who funded this?’

September 27, 2025 3:33 am

The pandal in Ranchi, with domes, tall pillars, and statues reminiscent of European cathedrals, elicited a reaction from VHP and BJP

Masked men shoot at patrolling police team in Ranchi, one cop wounded 

September 22, 2025 3:39 pm

Ranchi SSP Rakesh Ranjan said the police were “scanning CCTV footage in and around Khalari to identify the vehicle used by the attackers”.

Jharkhand gangster who made ‘catch me if you can’ video killed in police encounter

September 21, 2025 10:17 am

Uttam Yadav, a wanted man in the state who first gained notoriety for a video daring the police to arrest him, was allegedly killed in an encounter in Chatra district.

Pregnant woman carried on cot across flooded river after repeated calls for ambulance go unanswered in Jharkhand

September 17, 2025 12:47 pm

A video of the incident went viral on social media, and showed 6 men wading through strong currents while carrying the woman on their shoulders

Jharkhand man ‘murders 2 women for revenge’, takes police to where he hid their bodies, then ‘dies by suicide’

September 10, 2025 6:58 am

Shrikant Choudhary’s victims were a 23-year-old woman who police said was in a relationship with him, and her friend, who was a witness to the first murder

Man arrested for raping 10-year-old daughter for months in Ranchi: police

September 04, 2025 5:56 pm

A complaint was lodged by the girl's grandmother on Tuesday, following which the man was arrested, police said.

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India blow away South Africa for 3-0 whitewash in Ranchi

October 23, 2019 6:51 am

A formidable Indian team ticked all the boxes with ease as it completed a 3-0 rout of an out-of-sorts South Africa with an innings and 202 runs victory in the third and final Test.

Violence in Ranchi as VHP declares bandh

September 26, 2015 12:16 pm

Reports of low-intensity violence in Ranchi came as VHP declared bandh in the city on Saturday.

Fifth phase of polling underway

April 17, 2014 4:01 pm

Moderate to brisk voting was on Thursday recorded in the first five hours of polling.

RANCHI VIDEOS

Jharkhand: 4 Naxals killed, two CRPF jawans injured

February 19, 2016 5:51 am

Ranchi, Feb 19 (ANI): At least four Naxals were killed and two CRPF jawans were injured in an encounter in Taimara Ghati on the NH-33 in Ranchi on Friday morning. The injured jawans have been taken to a nearby hospital. The operation began on specific inputs around 9pm on Thursday night and ended on Friday morning.

Ranchi: Protest against school management over death of boy

February 10, 2016 3:40 pm

Ranchi, Feb 10 (ANI): Local residents in Ranchi staged a protest against the school management of Sapphire International School over the death of a 13-year-old student, Vinay, who was found dead in school premises under mysterious circumstances. The irked protestors raised slogans against the school authority. One of the protestors said that six days have passed since Vinay's death, but no action has been taken by the police. They also stated that the police are trying to protect the culprits.

BSF plane crashes in Delhi

December 22, 2015 2:40 pm

New Delhi, Dec 22 (ANI): A Border Security Force (BSF) plane on Tuesday morning crashed at Bagdola village in Sector 8, Dwarka in the national capital. The charter plane was a Ranchi-bound BSF Superking Aircraft having five to seven people onboard, a BSF source said. As per the Delhi Fire Department sources, 15 fire tenders have reached at the spot. More details awaited.

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