ICT magazine

Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren said Friday he was not against the special anti-Maoist operation Green Hunt, but has also asked the rebels to come forward for a dialogue. “I am not against Green Hunt operation. The operations are going on in Jharkhand,” Soren told reporters. He said: “I have asked the ...

Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Friday that Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren was coming to New Delhi Jan 28 for a meeting on Maoist insurgency. “There is a new government in Jharkhand. The chief minister and other senior officials are coming to Delhi on Jan 28 to meet me on the ...

Jharkhand Deputy Chief Minister and president of the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) Sudesh Mahto has been allocated two more key departments. A government notification Friday said that Sudesh Mahto will also head rural development and panchayati raj departments. Sudesh Mahto now has six departments, including road construction. Soren, who became seventh ...

Ranchi: The second phase of Jharkhand elections began this morning for 14 seats. These seats are mostly situated in Naxal-hit areas and Maoists have announced to boycott the poll. Altogether 30,96,854 people are eligible to vote in Kodarma, Barhi, Mandu, Ramgarh, Gandey, Giridih, Dumri, Gomia, Tamar, Silli, Khijri, Mandar, Khunti and ...

The Maoists on Friday called for a shutdown in Jharkhand to protest against the police operation against them. A tight security arrangement was made through out the state. Security personnel have been put on high alert and a massive combing operation is on in sensitive areas of the state. Last night, two passengers ...

Security forces gunned down a top Naxal commander in Uttar Pradesh’’s Sonebhadra District on Monday. He was wanted in connection with thirty-two criminal cases in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, police said. Self-styled Maoist zonal commander Kamlesh Chowdhary, was trying to reactivate Naxalites in the Sonebhadra-Mirzapur region. He was gunned down during ...

Pilgrims undertaking Haj this year will have two more embarkation points, up from 17 last time, and will have to pay Rs 16,000 instead of Rs 12,000 lastyear. These decisions in relation to the month-long Haj pilgrimage beginning from Tuesday were taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister ...

Pilgrims going for the month- long Haj this year will have to shell out Rs.4,000 more for air fare from the existing Rs.12,000. Altogether 1,60,491,people will undertake the Haj this year. Of this, 1.15 lakh pilgrims will go under the aegis of the Haj Committee and get the benefit of ...

IGNOU will start a series of programmes early next year to educate and train youths from below poverty line (BPL) families in tribal areas of six states. After clearing the certificate or diploma courses, mostly on Information Technology, successful candidates will be given employment. While the certificate programmes are for six months ...

Scores of locals and admirers of late Francis Induwar, an Inspector of Jharkhand Police special branch, gathered in Ranchi city on Wednesday to pay their last respects to the intelligence officer killed by the Maoists. Induwar was buried with full state honours. Earlier, the state police found the decapitated body of the ...

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will chair the first meeting of the Ganga River Basin Authority (GRBA) here today. Chief Ministers of States through which the Ganga flows such as Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh will hold a discussion on ways to clean up the river. The issue of roping in international financial ...

Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Saturday called on Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi to hold talks on possibilities for forming an alliance between the two parties for the Jharkhand Assembly elections. Yadav who was accompanied by former Union Minister Premchand Gupta had a 30 minutes long discussion with ...

By Geeta PandeyBBC News, Ranchi, JharkhandIn Satbarwa village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, scores of Muslim farmers have gathered in the village square. Their arms raised, eyes fixed on the sky, they ...

The banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has issued a threat against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Home Minister P Chidambaram. The CPI-Maoist was declared a terror outfit by the central government last month. “Both the PM and Sonia Gandhi will meet a fate like former Prime ...