chatra district

Medininagar/Chatra, April 11 Jharkhand police seized narcotics worth Rs 2.55 crore from Palamu and Chatra districts, officials said on Saturday.In Palamu district, two persons were arrested after poppy husk worth Rs 1.25 crore was seized from their possession, a police officer said.The...

Chatra, Apr 10 The principal of a school in Jharkhand's Chatra district was arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old student, police said on Friday.The 50-year-old accused was apprehended on Thursday after the girl's family lodged a complaint at the Hunterganj police station, they said...

Chatra (Jharkhand), April 10 – A shocking incident has come to light from the Scheduled Caste Residential Girls' School located in the Hunterganj block headquarters in Chatra district of Jharkhand. A 14-year-old minor student, who was residing in the school hostel and studying in Class 3, was...

Chatra (Jharkhand), April 4 A 58-year-old veterinarian was found dead in a forest in the Chatra district of Jharkhand on Saturday morning, police said.Police suspect that the veterinarian was murdered, as there were injury marks on his face.The deceased, identified as Yogendra Yadav, was a...

Chhattisgarh, March 31 In a physically demanding sport such as wrestling, where peak fitness is crucial, competing with an injured shoulder is a significant risk. However, Jharkhand wrestler Poonam Oraon transformed that risk into an opportunity. Despite enduring pain in every match, she secured...

New Delhi, March 26 A Beechcraft C90A aircraft, belonging to Redbird Airways Pvt Ltd, crashed in Jharkhand on February 23 after being airborne for 17 minutes, according to a preliminary report by the AAIB, the investigating agency. The aircraft's emergency location transmitter did not activate...

Chatra (Jharkhand), March 25 Twenty-one devotees from Bihar were injured after their tractor-trolley fell into a roadside ditch in Chatra district, Jharkhand, on Wednesday, police said.The accident occurred near Sonbarsa village in the Hunterganj police station area when the driver lost...

Chatra, March 24 A 40-year-old man died after an unqualified practitioner allegedly administered the wrong injections in Chatra district, Jharkhand, a police officer said on Tuesday.The incident occurred in the Jori area on Monday evening, he said.The accused reportedly fled after Vinod...

Chatra, March 24 A 60-year-old woman was allegedly murdered in a forest in the Chatra district of Jharkhand, police said on Tuesday.The woman, who resided in the Kishunpur Colony area under the Sadar police station, had gone to a forest near her house on Monday to collect Mahua flowers, they...

Chatra, March 20 Three women were killed in lightning strikes in the Chatra district of Jharkhand on Friday, officials said.Circle Officer Udal Ram of Pathalgadda said that Shama Praveen (35) died in the village of Bandarchuwa after being struck by lightning while she was collecting mahua...

Chatra (Jharkhand), March 18 Five members of the banned Maoist group, the Tritiya Sammelan Prastuti Committee (TSPC), were arrested on Wednesday along with weapons and ammunition in the Chatra district of Jharkhand, police said.A "area commander" of the PLFI, who was carrying a reward of Rs 1...

Chatra (Jharkhand), March 18 A 31-year-old Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) soldier allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in the Chatra district of Jharkhand, police said on Wednesday.The incident took place at the Shila picket, under the jurisdiction of the Simaria...

Chatra, March 18 – A Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) soldier stationed in the Chatra district of Jharkhand allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon, officials said on Wednesday.The incident occurred at the Shila OP picket under the Simaria police station, where the...

Chatra, March 15 Two individuals, including a woman, have been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of a 23-year-old man in Chatra district, Jharkhand, a police officer said on Sunday.The incident occurred on March 13 near the Dhamdhama village on the Chatra-Simariya Road when the...

Chatra (Jharkhand), March 13 – Traffic came to a standstill for over 16 hours in the Chatra district of Jharkhand after angry villagers blocked the highway, demanding compensation and action against those responsible for a tragic accident that claimed the lives of four teenage boys.The...

Chatra, March 13 Four teenage boys were killed when their motorcycle collided head-on with a car in Chatra district, Jharkhand, police said on Friday.The accident occurred on the Piparwar-Tandwa Road in the Chiraiyatand area, they said.The boys were between 14 and 17 years old, and residents...

Chatra (Jharkhand), March 2 At least six people were injured, one of them seriously, after a private inter-state bus overturned in the Chatra district of Jharkhand on Monday, police said.The accident occurred near Murainawa, about 15 km from the district headquarters, in the Bashishtnagar...

New Delhi, February 25 The Beechcraft C90A aircraft, which crashed in Jharkhand on Monday, killing seven people, did not have a cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorders, according to the aviation regulator, the DGCA.The requirement for an aircraft to have a cockpit voice recorder and...

Ranchi, February 24 – A day after an air ambulance crashed in Jharkhand's Chatra district, killing all seven people on board, two teams from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) arrived in the state on Tuesday and began investigating the accident, an official said.After post-mortem...

New Delhi, February 24 – In an effort to address a recent surge in aviation incidents, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced stringent new measures on Tuesday to enforce a zero-tolerance policy against safety compromises in the Non-Scheduled Operators (NSOP) sector.The...