Jharkhand Village

Three children who were sleeping together in fear of elephant attacks, died of snakebite in a village in Jharkhand's Garwah district, police said on Friday.

Two persons were killed and 22 others injured after 18 coaches of the Howrah-Mumbai Mail derailed at Potobeda village near Barabambo station in South Eastern Railways's Chakradharpur division on Tuesday morning.

A woman Public Distribution System (PDS) dealer was paraded in a village with a garland of slippers around her neck by a mob in Jharkhand's Dumka district, police said.

The body of a teenage girl, who was allegedly raped and murdered after being trafficked to Bihar, was exhumed in her village in Jharkhand, a police officer said on Thursday.

It took place in Sorath village in Panki block and the corpses were found on Sunday.

A 71-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant in a village in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district when he was on his way to cast his vote for the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday, police said.

As 49 seats across six states and two Union Territories vote today in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election, three groups of villagers -- two in Uttar Pradesh and one in Jharkhand -- have stayed away from the polling booth

Security personnel on Wednesday recovered three powerful Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) during an anti-Maoist operation launched in the extremist-hit Jimki Ikir village in West Singhbhum district, police said in a statement.

From a humble farm worker, who tilled fields with his father in the remote Jilingora village in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharsawan district, to being known as "Jharkhand's Tiger", 67-year-old Champai Soren has had his share of ups and downs.

Four days ahead of the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to tribals and announced he will go to the native village of their icon Birsa Munda on his birth anniversary.

Five teens including a minor were arrested on the charge of raping a 16-year-old girl in a village in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district, a police officer said on Thursday.

Sudesh Kumar Mahto who has been a key player in the state's turbulent politics said 'evident change' will be visible in the 2024 elections.

Five people died after a portion of a well caved in at a village in Jharkhand's Ranchi district on Thursday, Chief Minister Hemant Soren said. However, NDRF officials said the toll is still unknown as the rescue operation is underway.

Forest dwellers in a village in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district have put up signage asking forest officials to enter the village after getting consent from gram sabha, an official said on Friday.

Six police personnel were injured in an attack by a mob on Friday when they went to a village in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district to help a BSF jawan take possession of land allotted to him by the government, officials said.

Three children who were sleeping together in fear of elephant attacks, died of snakebite in a village in Jharkhand's Garwah district, police said on Friday.

Two persons were killed and 22 others injured after 18 coaches of the Howrah-Mumbai Mail derailed at Potobeda village near Barabambo station in South Eastern Railways's Chakradharpur division on Tuesday morning.

A woman Public Distribution System (PDS) dealer was paraded in a village with a garland of slippers around her neck by a mob in Jharkhand's Dumka district, police said.

The body of a teenage girl, who was allegedly raped and murdered after being trafficked to Bihar, was exhumed in her village in Jharkhand, a police officer said on Thursday.

It took place in Sorath village in Panki block and the corpses were found on Sunday.

A 71-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant in a village in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district when he was on his way to cast his vote for the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday, police said.

As 49 seats across six states and two Union Territories vote today in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election, three groups of villagers -- two in Uttar Pradesh and one in Jharkhand -- have stayed away from the polling booth

Security personnel on Wednesday recovered three powerful Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) during an anti-Maoist operation launched in the extremist-hit Jimki Ikir village in West Singhbhum district, police said in a statement.

From a humble farm worker, who tilled fields with his father in the remote Jilingora village in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharsawan district, to being known as "Jharkhand's Tiger", 67-year-old Champai Soren has had his share of ups and downs.

Four days ahead of the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to tribals and announced he will go to the native village of their icon Birsa Munda on his birth anniversary.

Five teens including a minor were arrested on the charge of raping a 16-year-old girl in a village in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district, a police officer said on Thursday.

Sudesh Kumar Mahto who has been a key player in the state's turbulent politics said 'evident change' will be visible in the 2024 elections.

Five people died after a portion of a well caved in at a village in Jharkhand's Ranchi district on Thursday, Chief Minister Hemant Soren said. However, NDRF officials said the toll is still unknown as the rescue operation is underway.

Forest dwellers in a village in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district have put up signage asking forest officials to enter the village after getting consent from gram sabha, an official said on Friday.

Six police personnel were injured in an attack by a mob on Friday when they went to a village in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district to help a BSF jawan take possession of land allotted to him by the government, officials said.