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Topic: Jharkhand

Curious case of Jharkhand’s ghost DSPs, SDMs, forest officers. ‘We don’t exist officially’

‘We wear uniform, draw salary, don’t have a post’— over 100 Jharkhand DSPs & Sub-Divisional Magistrates in limbo.

Jharkhand air ambulance crash — life-saving trips have gone wrong before in India

The Jharkhand crash that killed 7 has put the spotlight on India’s air ambulance sector, where critically ill patients often pay lakhs for private charters.

Rise & fall of Pathiram Manjhi, Jharkhand’s most feared Maoist military commander

From a tribal hamlet in Giridih to the central committee of CPI (Maoist), carrying a bounty of Rs 2.4 cr, Manjhi’s rise was built on ambushes & explosives—until security forces killed him Friday.

A Ranchi boy reading at a petrol pump went viral. What came next

Alex Munda, 7, became an internet sensation in Jharkhand after a video of him studying under petrol pump lights went viral. Electricity and other benefits are now arriving, but so are new problems.

‘Goal Machine’ Anushka Kumari, 14, was taunted, stopped. Now she’s India’s rising football star

Anushka Kumari started out on an uneven village ground, playing barefoot with boys despite family resistance. Three years later, she is India’s U-17 ‘Goal Machine’.

Erring officials made to pay: Why Jharkhand HC ordered probe into illegal construction on govt land

Court has ordered officials to compensate residents whose structures had been demolished, but asked why state exchequer should bear expenses for illegality committed by officials.

If there’s any group who has the right to rule over India, it’s Adivasis: Jaipal Singh Munda

On 24 August 1949, Jaipal Singh Munda, the driving force behind the Jharkhand movement, argued for political representation and self-governance for the tribal community in the Constituent Assembly.

Battle of Sorens in Ghatsila: JMM’s Somesh Chandra trounces BJP’s Babu Lal by a mammoth 38k margin

Bypoll was necessitated by death of Somesh Chandra's father & ex-JMM minister Ramdas Soren on 15 August. It was first electoral test of Hemant Soren in his 2nd stint in power.

Jharkhand is the honour killing capital of India now. Haryana is second

The latest NCRB report also shows that Jharkhand constantly features in the list of top ten states when it comes to murders, with over 1,400 such cases recorded between 2021 and 2023.

You notify PESA rules, we’ll lift sand mining ban—HC tells Jharkhand govt, rejects plea

New Delhi: In a setback to the Jharkhand government, the high court in Ranchi Wednesday refused to modify its 9 September order banning the...

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.