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Topic: Jharkhand

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.

Jharkhand’s Babulal Hembrom wins two bronze medals at IWF World Youth Weightlifting Championship

According to the JSSPS, Babulal won the medals in the 49 kg snatch and clean & jerk categories.

Shibu Soren is sitting this election out, but ‘Guruji’s’ shadow looms large over Jharkhand politics

Every JMM candidate has sought his blessings, including Nalin Soren, who will contest from Dumka, Shibu Soren's stronghold & key seat in politically significant Santhal Pargana region.

‘Deshbhakt’ from Army family, warrior in her own right — who is Kalpana Soren

Thrust into limelight after husband & ex-CM Hemant Soren's arrest, Kalpana Soren has swiftly emerged as prominent campaigner for JMM and is candidate in assembly bypoll Monday.

Kalpana Soren’s life was family time, yoga, music. Now it’s rallies, speeches, interviews

The radical change in Kalpana Soren’s life—from being the wife of a chief minister to a leader—has upended the Soren household. For the first time, the MTech/MBA degree holder isn’t spending the summer vacation with her kids.

Alamgir Alam took ‘1.5% cut’ of tenders, Rs 32 cr recovered — ED allegations against Jharkhand minister

Rural Development Minister Alam was arrested Wednesday. In remand application, agency alleges that dept officials 'top to bottom' were involved in collection of 'commissions'.

ED arrests Jharkhand minister Alamgir Alam in money laundering case

Agency had summoned Alam to appear before it on 14 May in connection with recovery of cash from a person linked to his personal secretary Sanjeev Lal.

‘Officials from top to bottom involved’ — ED raids office of Jharkhand minister’s OSD in PMLA case

Search at office of Sanjeev Lal, OSD to state's rural development minister, comes 2 days after ED recovered Rs 32.20 cr from home of his domestic help Jahangir Alam. Both are in ED custody.

‘Bribes, properties, pay-offs’ — what brought ED spotlight on Jharkhand’s politicians, civil servants

ED raided over a dozen locations Monday & recovered over Rs 25 cr in possession of Jharkhand minister Alamgir Alam’s personal secretary. The state votes in four phases starting 13 May. 

ED recovers huge cash haul from alleged aide of Jharkhand minister in Ranchi

Enforcement Directorate has till now recovered Rs 20 crore from residence of a household help employed by Sanjiv Lal, personal secretary to Rural Development Minister Alamgir Alam.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.