Dhanbad News

Rs 17,500. That's the fee that a Dalit student had to pay to secure his admission into the prestigious IIT Dhanbad. The UP student had four days to submit the fee. The student's father, a daily wage labourer,tried all he could, but missed the mark.

A 32-year-old woman and her minor daughter were injured in an acid attack over a land dispute in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on Wednesday, police said.

Sunaina Singh, a 35-year-old transgender, is all set to contest against BJP candidate Dulu Mahto from the Dhanbad seat in the Lok Sabha elections in Jharkhand.

Calling Congress "scammers," Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a scathing attack on the grand old party in Dhanbad and said that Congress and its allies are the "biggest enemies of development."

Aman Singh, a sharp shooter, was shot dead in Jharkhand's Dhanbad jail on Sunday afternoon, police said.

Three people lost their lives after a fire broke out at a shop in Dhanbad's Kendua market on Monday night.

A school student died by suicide reportedly after being beaten up for wearing a 'bindi' on her forehead at a school in Jharkhand's Dhanbad, officials said.

Prohibitory orders have been imposed in three areas of Katras police station, about 29 km from the district headquarters, after clashes between two groups over the theft of an e-rickshaw battery, police said.

Six labourers were electrocuted to death after an electric pole, which they were erecting, fell on a high-tension overhead wire in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on Monday, officials said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday condoled the loss of lives in the devastating fire at a Dhanbad apartment and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lahk for the next-of-kin of the dead.

At least five people, including two doctors, were killed in a fire in a private nursing home in Jharkhand's Dhanbad today, an official said.

An armed robber was shot dead and two of his associates were injured on Tuesday in the office of a private financial company in Dhanbad during an exchange of fire with the police.

To be sentenced next week, autorickshaw driver Rahul Verma and his accomplice Lakhan Verma were arrested a month after the murder

An explosion ripped off a part of a railway track in Jharkhand's Dhanbad division derailing a diesel locomotive in the early hours of Saturday.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed two more FIRs in connection with the death of Dhanbad judge Uttam Anand, who died after being hit by an auto-rickshaw.

Rs 17,500. That's the fee that a Dalit student had to pay to secure his admission into the prestigious IIT Dhanbad. The UP student had four days to submit the fee. The student's father, a daily wage labourer,tried all he could, but missed the mark.

A 32-year-old woman and her minor daughter were injured in an acid attack over a land dispute in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on Wednesday, police said.

Sunaina Singh, a 35-year-old transgender, is all set to contest against BJP candidate Dulu Mahto from the Dhanbad seat in the Lok Sabha elections in Jharkhand.

Calling Congress "scammers," Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a scathing attack on the grand old party in Dhanbad and said that Congress and its allies are the "biggest enemies of development."

Aman Singh, a sharp shooter, was shot dead in Jharkhand's Dhanbad jail on Sunday afternoon, police said.

Three people lost their lives after a fire broke out at a shop in Dhanbad's Kendua market on Monday night.

A school student died by suicide reportedly after being beaten up for wearing a 'bindi' on her forehead at a school in Jharkhand's Dhanbad, officials said.

Prohibitory orders have been imposed in three areas of Katras police station, about 29 km from the district headquarters, after clashes between two groups over the theft of an e-rickshaw battery, police said.

Six labourers were electrocuted to death after an electric pole, which they were erecting, fell on a high-tension overhead wire in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on Monday, officials said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday condoled the loss of lives in the devastating fire at a Dhanbad apartment and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lahk for the next-of-kin of the dead.

At least five people, including two doctors, were killed in a fire in a private nursing home in Jharkhand's Dhanbad today, an official said.

An armed robber was shot dead and two of his associates were injured on Tuesday in the office of a private financial company in Dhanbad during an exchange of fire with the police.

To be sentenced next week, autorickshaw driver Rahul Verma and his accomplice Lakhan Verma were arrested a month after the murder

An explosion ripped off a part of a railway track in Jharkhand's Dhanbad division derailing a diesel locomotive in the early hours of Saturday.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed two more FIRs in connection with the death of Dhanbad judge Uttam Anand, who died after being hit by an auto-rickshaw.