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TopicDhanbad

Topic: Dhanbad

Union Minister launches green campaign in Dhanbad

Vriksharopan Abhiyan 2024 aims to plant 15,350 hectares of green cover.

Blood, coal & fear: How mafias still rule the roost in Dhanbad, setting of ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’

Coal mafias control everything in Dhanbad, from unions & transport to auctions, besides engaging in extortion, bribery, and outright theft. They even have officials working in cahoots.

Strongman Suryadeo Singh’s legacy to BJP’s Dhullu Mahto, Dhanbad politics remains in grip of crime

Baghmara BJP MLA Mahto is contesting the Dhanbad LS seat. He has had over 50 FIRs filed against him, with trial courts convicting him in at least four & at least 19 cases still pending.

Why opposition to BJP’s pick of Dhullu Mahto as Dhanbad candidate is boiling over in Jharkhand

District president of Marwari Sammelan has asked party to reconsider Mahto's candidature. Saryu Roy, a minister in the erstwhile Raghubar Das-led BJP government, has opposed move too.

Charge sheet in Dhanbad judge’s death cites forensic reports, but CBI says probe still on

CBI says 'larger conspiracy behind judge's murder 'under probe'. HC says 'disappointed' with probe agency's progress and pace of investigation in the case.

Jharkhand SIT blames ‘sedative’, claims ‘no conspiracy’ in Dhanbad judge’s death

Judge Uttam Anand, 49, was out on his morning walk near his home in Dhanbad on 28 July when he was fatally struck by a three-wheeler. CCTV footage has raised suspicions.

Jharkhand poll battle in Gangs of Wasseypur land is a story of murder, family feud & clout

BJP's Ragini Singh & Congress candidate Purnima Singh in Jharkhand's Jharia polls are the wives of two cousins — one was killed, the other in jail facing charges of the murder.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.