http://www.samachaar.in Smachaar.in en-us 2010 Samachaar.In Wed, 09 May 2012 12:37:04 GMT Wed, 09 May 2012 12:37:04 GMT http://samachaar.in/Ranchi/__Pilot_wisdom_saved_Munda_and_others_128086 Ranchi: It was the wisdom of Captain B.K. Singh, piloting the helicopter which had to crash land after it developed a technical snag, that saved the lives of Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda, his wife Meera and three others travelling with them... Wed, 09 May 2012 12:37:04 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Munda_wife_escape_as_chopper_crash_lands_128052 Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda and his wife had a narrow escape Wednesday when their chopper turned turtle and landed on its side at the airport here.Munda and his wife Meera, who were on their way to Saraikela Kharsawa district t... Wed, 09 May 2012 10:20:37 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Mundas_chopper_crash_lands_in_Ranchi_128045 Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda's helicopter crash landed at the airport here Wednesday, shortly after taking off, an official said. Munda and his wife Meera received minor injuries.The chopper had taken off around 12.30 p.m. and d... Wed, 09 May 2012 08:13:12 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Marandis_party_to_stay_away_from_Rajya_Sabha_poll_127586 Ranchi: Ahead of the May 3 Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand, the Congress suffered a setback Monday when its alliance partner, the JVM-P of Babulal Marandi, said it will not support the party in the biennial elections for the two seats and will st... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:52:34 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Woman_gangraped_dies_in_Ranchi_hospital_127582 Ranchi: A middle-aged woman, who was gangraped and beaten up by her assaulters, died in a hospital in Jharkhand capital Monday, police said.According to police, the woman took an auto-rickshaw Sunday night from the Ashoknagar colony area for he... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:47:58 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Congress_MP_offered_me_Rs25_lakh_bribe_127577 Ranchi: Amid the CBI investigating the March 30 countermanded Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand, a Congress legislator alleged Monday that his own party's upper house MP Dheeraj Sahu had offered him Rs.25 lakh in 2010 to vote in his favour, a charg... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:30:24 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Resentment_in_JMM_over_Rajya_Sabha_candidate_127450 Ranchi: Senior Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader and former deputy chief minister Sudhir Mahto Wednesday staged a sit-in demonstration in the steel city of Jamshedpur to protest against the fielding of Supreme Court lawyer Sanjeev Kumar for th... Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:56:08 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/BJP_to_back_JMM_candidates_if_it_joins_NDA_127337 Ranchi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asked the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), its alliance partner in the Jharkhand government, to join the National Democratic Alliance, the BJP-led Opposition coalition in parliament, if it wanted support... Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:05:21 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Jharkhand_order_on_RS_polls_a_victory_on_corruption_126838 New Delhi: With the Jharkhand High Court dismissing a petition challenging the Election Commission's (EC) order countermanding voting for two Rajya Sabha seats from the state, Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi Thursday termed it as a ... Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:16:57 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Poll_panel_stops_Jharkhand_Rajya_Sabha_poll_urges_cancellation__126600 New Delhi/Ranchi: Amid reports of horse trading in the Rajya Sabha polls, the Election Commission Friday stopped the counting of votes for two seats from Jharkhand after money was seized from a car belonging to an independent candidate's relative a... Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:41:12 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/EC_stops_vote_counting_in_Jharkhand_Uttarakhand_Rajya_Sabha_polls_126586 New Delhi: Concerned over reports of money being used in the Rajya Sabha polls from Jharkhand and Uttarakhand, the Election Commission Friday asked the returning officers of the two assemblies not to start counting the votes scheduled for 5 ... Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:51:36 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/BJP_backtracks_votes_for_JMM_candidate_126579 Ranchi: Backtracking from its stand that it would abstain, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday voted in favour of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) candidate in the Rajya Sabha polls.Giving in to the request of ruling alliance partner JMM, t... Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:28:18 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Rs215_crore_seized_ahead_of_Rajya_Sabha_poll_126565 Ranchi: With the Election Commission (EC) having sounded an alert in view of the Rajya Sabha polls, the income tax department in Jharkhand Friday seized Rs.2.15 crore from a vehicle on the outskirts of this city, said an official."Acting o... Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:39:10 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Maoists_kill_CRPF_trooper_in_Chhattisgarh_126464 Raipur: A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper was gunned down and his colleague injured in a gunfight Monday with Maoists in a forested area in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, police said.The gun battle broke out near Bhejji police... Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:50:06 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Hope_BJP_will_support_our_Rajya_Sabha_candidate_JMM_126462 Ranchi: The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Monday expressed hope that alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would vote for its candidate in the Rajya Sabha poll scheduled March 30."Talks with central BJP leaders were positive and we ... Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:47:16 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Indian_army_eyes_youth_in_Uttarakhand_126311 Dehradun: With the youth showing little interest in joining the Indian Army, the force is devising new ways to lure young men and women to sign up.The Indian Army is holding a two-day 'army mela' at the Mahendra Grounds here in Gadhi Cantt from S... Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:12:00 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/BJP_faces_revolt_against_Jharkhand_Rajya_Sabha_nomination_126207 New Delhi: The conflict within the Bharatiya Janata Party on the Rajya Sabha nominations came out in the open Tuesday as senior leader Yashwant Sinha slammed the decision not to field a BJP member from Jharkhand.BJP's decision to support Anshum... Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:54:31 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/_BJP_enforces_Jharkhand_economic_blockade_against_railway_budget_125927 Ranchi: Railway services were affected in Jharkhand Thursday as the ruling BJP enforced a three-hour economic blockade to protest the "neglect of the state" in the railway budget for 2012-13.  The BJP workers halted railway serv... Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:18:03 GMT http://samachaar.in/Business_and_Economy/_Jharkhand_budget_for_201213_pegged_at_Rs37113_crore_125915 Ranchi: Jharkhand Deputy Chief Minister  Hemant Soren Thursday tabled a Rs.37,113 crore budget for the 2012-2013 financial year in the state assembly, focussing on economic and social infrastructure.  The budget envisages building ro... Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:42:38 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/_Four_Maoists_killed_in_Jharkhand_125442 Ranchi: Four Maoists were killed in a gunbattle with security forces  that broke out early Monday after about 300 guerrillas attacked a Central Coalfield Limited (CCL) project in Jharkhand and set on fire 19 vehicles.  A security per... Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:20:34 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/One_killed_in_Jharkhand_Maoist_attack_124939 Ranchi: One villager was killed when Maoists first attacked a police station and then blasted a house in Jharkhand's Latehar district, police said Thursday.According to police, Maoist guerrillas first attacked Balumath police station, around 13... Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:40:53 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Two_women_die_in_Jharkhand_as_abandoned_mine_caves_in_124456 Ranchi: Two women miners engaged in illegal mining were killed in Jharkhand's Bokaro district Saturday when the abandoned mine they were in collapsed in the second such incident in a week, police said.  Five to six women were extracting c... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:14:01 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Four_killed_in_Jharkhand_train_accident_124048 Ranchi: Four people were killed and 14 injured when the Brahmaputra Mailhit a stationary goods train at Karanpurato station of Jharkhand's Sahibganj district Wednesday morning."Four people have been killed in the accident. Fourteen were injur... Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:55:48 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Murder_loot_cases_declined_in_Jharkhand_Minister_123593 Ranchi: Murder and loot cases have declined in Jharkhand, Human Resource Development Minister Baijnath Ram said Thursday.  “Murder and loot cases have declined in the state in 2011. Opposition parties are trying to defame the state ... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:48:45 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Jharkhand_spent_only_38_percent_of_job_scheme_funds_123426 Ranchi: In the last eight months, Jharkhand has spent only 38 percent of its allocated fund of Rs.1,55,871 crore under the rural employment guaratee scheme for the 2011-2012 financial year, according to a state government official.In some distr... Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:59:48 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Maoists_blast_school_attack_police_station_in_Jharkhand_123270 Ranchi: Maoist guerrillas blew up a school, torched mobile towers and attacked a police station in two separate incidents in Jharkhand, police said Tuesday.According to police, the rebels blasted a middle school at Bodari village in Garhwa dist... Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:15:35 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Rs100_crore_seized_from_accounts_of_contractor_kin_123136 Ranchi: Income Tax (IT) sleuths seized Rs.100 crore deposited in bank accounts of a contractor, his family members and relatives in Jharkhand's coal city Dhanbad, sources said Thursday. IT officials Wednesday started a raid at Lal Babu Singh's h... Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:58:30 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/RPF_men_nailed_my_hands_feet_Railway_guard_122567 Ranchi: A railway guard here has accused three Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel of torturing him by driving nails through his hands and feet, making him stand in hot water and beating him black and blue on suspicion of theft.Dilbodhan, a... Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:45:38 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/___BJP_JMM_in_faceoff_over_grant_to_Jharkhand_madrasas_122276 Ranchi: A face-off between two ministers here over grant to madrasas in Jharkhand has strained the relations between  two key ruling alliance partners in the state.  Haji Hussain Ansari, cooperative and social affairs minister and a ... Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:46:15 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Campaign_against_harassment_of_women_in_Ranchi_122082 Ranchi: Police have launched a campaign against harassment of women in the Jharkhand capital, stepping up presence at public places and opening helpline numbers for victims to lodge their complaints. Ten youths were arrested during the campaign in ... Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:51:58 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/_All_Jharkhand_panchayats_to_be_econnected_Munda_121978 Ranchi: Chief Minister Arjun Munda Wednesday said all the 4,500 panchayats in Jharkhand will be connected through an electronic delivery system and the state would also be a power hub by the end of next year.  “We have started e-dis... Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:40:59 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/JMM_tightlipped_over_fresh_row_in_1993_bribery_case_121931 Ranchi: The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) is tight-lipped over the fresh controversy which has arisen in the 1993 bribery case to save the government of then prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal ruled that the J... Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:18:29 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/80_bags_of_ammonium_nitrate_seized_in_Jharkhand_121827 Ranchi: Eighty bags of ammonium nitrate and 80 detonators, suspected to be meant for Maoist rebels for making landmines, were seized in two separate incidents in Jharkhand Saturday, police said.  According to police, a truck laden with th... Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:54:46 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/__Man_burns_wife_children_alive_121626 Ranchi: In a gruesome incident, a man burnt his wife and two children alive in Jharkhand?s Palamau district after a quarrel over his illicit relations, police said Saturday.  According to police, Murari Paswan tied his wife Manju Devi to ... Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:30:25 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Jharkhand_hikes_salaries_of_ministers_legislators_121622 Ranchi: The Jharkhand assembly Saturday passed a bill raising salaries of legislators and ministers - the fourth hike in the last ten years.  With the hike, a legislator in Jharkhand will get more than Rs.70,000 per month againt Rs.29,000... Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:27:11 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/__Two_lynched_in_Jharkhand_121577 Ranchi: Two criminals in Jharkhand were tied to trees and beaten to death by villagers, furious that the duo had tried to loot money and then fired at them, police said Friday.  The incident took place late Thursday in Bhagwanchak village... Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:13:26 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/_Jharkhands_Bhojpuri_Maithili_speakers_feel_denied_121558 Ranchi: Bhojpuri and Maithili-speaking people in Jharkhand have sharply reacted for their languages not being accorded second language status in the state.  The Jharkhand cabinet accorded this status to 11 languages, including Bangla and ... Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:37:19 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/_Anna_movement_to_figure_in_Jharkhand_school_syllabus_121317 Ranchi: The Jharkhand government is contemplating to include social activist Anna Hazare's movement against corruption in school syllabus.  "When the Vinoba Bhave movement, the anti-British Quit India movement could be included in sc... Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:44:17 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/_Ranchi_shops_shut_till_noon_in_support_of_Anna_121293 Ranchi: Businessmen here kept their shops closed till Friday noon to support activist Anna Hazare's cause against corruption.  India Against Corruption's Jharkhand chapter called a shutdown till noon in the state in support of Anna Hazare... Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:16:26 GMT http://samachaar.in/Business_and_Economy/_Good_rainfall_boosts_Jharkhand_foodgrain_yield_121132 Ranchi: Jharkhand expects increased foodgrain production this year following a good rainfall, the government said Wednesday.  "We expect production of more than 31 million tonnes of foodgrain  this year," said Jharkhand Agr... Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:13:30 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Jharkhand_sets_up_500_paddy_procurement_centres_120982 Ranchi: In a move to help the farmers facing erratic rainfall, the Jharkhand government has decided to set up 500 centres to procure paddy, a minister said Thursday."About 500 centres will be established in the districts to procure paddy... Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:56:48 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Bengals_softpedalling_on_Maoists_affects_Jharkhand_Official_120965 Ranchi: West Bengal was going slow against the Maoists in bordering areas and this has affected operations against the guerrillas in neighbouring Jharkhand, a Jharkhand police official said Thursday.  Jharkhand Director General of Police ... Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:29:11 GMT http://samachaar.in/Business_and_Economy/___Jharkhand_plans_to_give_rural_families_powersaver_CFLs_120741 Ranchi: Power-starved Jharkhand villages will be provided compact fluorescent lights in a move to save electricity, Chief Minister Arjun Munda Monday announced.   “We are going to soon launch the CFL schemes in each village to save ... Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:06:57 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Maoists_threaten_to_kill_40_to_avenge_death_penalty_119939 Ranchi: Maoists have threatened to kill 40 people to take revenge for the death penalty awarded last week to four rebels by a Giridih court, police said Monday.  "Char logo ki phansi ki saja nahi roki gai to 4 ka badla 40 se lenge (i... Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:42:25 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/__USmade_grenade_launchers_found_in_Jharkhand_119715 Ranchi: More than 50 US-made grenade launchers meant to be supplied to Maoists were recovered in Jharkhand, police said Wednesday. One person has been arrested.  "Some US-made grenade launchers have been recovered. We have arrested o... Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:29:00 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/_Five_killed_in_road_rail_accidents_119703 Ranchi: Five people, including three pilgrims, were killed in two separate incidents in Jharkhand's Deoghar district Wednesday, police said.  Three people died when a vehicle in which they were travelling collided with a tree at Kothiyamo... Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:30:30 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Woman_killed_in_Maoistpolice_gunbattle_in_Jharkhand_119445 Ranchi: A woman was killed in a gunbattle between security forces and Maoist guerrillas on the outskirts of Ranchi on Wednesday, police said.  "One woman was killed in the gunbattle. Arms and ammunition have been found from the encou... Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:05:03 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/__Jharkhand_deputy_chief_minister_gets_bail_119035 Ranchi: Jharkhand Deputy Chief Minister Hemant Soren was released on bail Friday after he surrendered before a Dumka court in a case related to violation of model code of conduct.  Soren surrendered to the court of Judicial Magistrate D.K... Fri, 20 May 2011 11:52:21 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/_Jharkhand_plans_to_appoint_two_more_advisors_118958 Ranchi: The Jharkhand government is planning to appoint two more advisors, a move that has invited flak from the opposition Congress that said Chief Minister Arjun Munda was more interested in "high flying ideas" than focusing on developm... Thu, 19 May 2011 12:13:57 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jharkhand/Four_Maoists_involved_in_killing_of_11_security_personnel_arrested_118877 Ranchi: Four Maoist guerrillas, allegedly involved in the killing of security personnel earlier this month, were arrested from Jharkhand’s Lohardaga district Wednesday, police said.  According to police, four Maoists, including one ... Wed, 18 May 2011 13:36:00 GMT