TopicJharkhand

Topic: Jharkhand

BJP leads in 5 seats in Jharkhand as counting of votes in assembly polls begins

ANI - December 23, 2019

Jharkhand went to polls for 81 Assembly seats in five phases from November 30 to December 20.

‘Learnt lessons from Maharashtra’ — Jharkhand BJP, Congress & others keeping options open

Moushumi Das Gupta - December 21, 2019

BJP is looking at former ally AJSU & Babulal Marandi’s JVM(P) for post-poll tie-up, Congress too is not closed to the option of partnering Marandi.

Tribals vs non-tribals — how the Jharkhand elections are likely to be decided

Moushumi Das Gupta - December 13, 2019

BJP has played a delicate game of wooing non-tribals as well as reaching out to tribals who haven't converted to Christianity. It faces a tough challenge in Jharkhand polls.

Jharkhand gets major chunk of funds in Modi govt’s infrastructure push in Naxal-hit areas

Ananya Bhardwaj - November 21, 2019

MoS for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy says in Lok Sabha Rs 1,775 cr has been released to 10 LWE-hit states in 3 years, with 44% of it going only to Jharkhand.

Birsa Munda — freedom fighter ‘Dharti Abba’ who championed tribal rights

Madhavi Pothukuchi - November 15, 2019

The state of Jharkhand was created on Munda’s birth anniversary to commemorate his contribution to the freedom struggle.

EC’s 5-phase polls for Jharkhand is cumbersome & mind-boggling, makes campaigns expensive

ThePrint Team - November 1, 2019

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In Jharkhand, lynching spares no religion and police & govt think it’s ‘routine’

Madhuparna Das - October 9, 2019

21 people have been lynched in the state over the past two years for allegedly transporting beef or consuming beef, and over child-lifting rumours.

How a tribal custom, a rumour and a ‘video’ played a role in Jharkhand mob lynching

Madhuparna Das - September 24, 2019

ThePrint travels to two villages in Jharkhand's Khunti district, and speaks to lynching 'witnesses' & villagers who recount the sequence of events.

Mob lynching in Jharkhand again: Beaten up for ‘selling beef’, tribal man dead, 2 critical

Madhuparna Das - September 23, 2019

5 held so far. Police say mob came from neighbouring villages after news of alleged cow slaughter spread through text & WhatsApp messages.

Youth who tried to kill Hindu girl in Jharkhand isn’t ‘Muslim’, as viral video claimed

Samyak Pandey - September 20, 2019

The video relates to an incident in Jharkhand in which a Hindu youth allegedly tried to slit his girlfriend’s throat when she refused to marry him.

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