Prashant Pandey

As of now, there is an understanding that Congress would lay claim to around 50 per cent of Lok Sabha seats in the state, while JMM would claim the same percentage of seats in Assembly polls.

On October 6 evening, a group of youths from a locality close to the residential government school attacked at least 34 of its girl students for reportedly objecting to them writing lewd messages on the school walls.

Coming down heavily on the opposition, Modi said that they always looked at the poor as vote banks, throwing freebies at them only to win the elections. He also stressed that PMJAY was yet another example of the slogan Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas.

A batch of 26 farmers from Jharkhand (one each from all the 24 districts and three from Ranchi) visited Israel on a four-day visit last month to learn the best practices in drip irrigation and other technologies that make farming a profitable business.

The flag was hoisted on the flagpole — 293-ft-high and erected on a base about 200 ft-high — for the first time on January 23, 2016, and next on Independence Day that year. Thereafter, due to one reason or the other, the flag has not flown atop it.

More than 6,000 primary and middle schools have been merged in the past two academic sessions - around 1,400 in 2016-17 and around 4,600 in 2017-18.

The state government directed the Deputy Commissioner Wednesday to take steps for reverting to the old system.

The dam located in Jharkhand’s Dumka district is maintained by West Bengal’s irrigation department.

R K Srivastava, director of RIMS medical college where the post-mortem procedure was conducted, said the hospital only gives out a document saying he was ‘brought dead’. “The question of where the death has occurred is not in its (hospital’s) purview,” he said.

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Speaking to The Indian Express, Prasann Mishra, BJYM’s Pakur chief and one of those named in the FIR, said: “Agnivesh has been constantly issuing statements that are against the true spirit of nationalism. He supports Naxals.

Earlier, police had said Patthalgadi supporters told them that they suspected that the women were spreading messages against the movement and they were raped to be taught a lesson.

Maintaining that “fascist tendencies are getting strong”, Agnivesh said, “It is time political parties got together and fought these tendencies at the political, and at the social, level. Otherwise, these tendencies will simply burn you.”

While Chief Minister Raghubar Das has ordered an inquiry, Agnivesh (79) said the mob included activists of the BJYM, which is affiliated to the BJP.

The police said, prima facie, it appears the children were killed by the elders before taking their own lives.

Earlier, Sinha had garlanded and offered sweets to six of the convicts released on bail by the Jharkhand High Court during the pendency of their appeal on July 4.

Acquitting the duo, the court said there was “not any iota of evidence against the children to connect them from any angle to the crime”.

While Mascarenhas condemned the action of woman staff member Anima Indwar, he was confident that Sister Concilia, who too was arrested in the case, had no role and that her statement was recorded in "duress."