west singhbhum district

Rourkela, March 30 – A woman Maoist surrendered to the Odisha Police on Monday, a day before the March 31 deadline to make India "Naxal-free", officials said.The 19-year-old, identified as Mongdi Honhaga, is a native of the Marangponga village within the Chhotangaara police station limits in...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), March 24 A 40-year-old man, "who had mental health issues," killed his mother and burned her body in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on Tuesday, a police officer said.The incident occurred at their home in Kamrora village, under the Gudri police station area, and...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), March 22 The Congress launched a 10-day training camp for newly elected district presidents in Jharkhand and Odisha on Sunday, aiming to strengthen the organization in both states, according to a party official.The camp is being organized under the guidance of AICC...

New Delhi, March 16 – Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, met with a CRPF officer who lost a leg in a counter-Maoist operation in Jharkhand on Monday.In a message about the meeting, Gandhi praised the brave officer from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)'s elite 209...

Chaibasa, March 14 Three people, including two brothers, were killed after their motorcycle crashed into an old panchayat building in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on Saturday, police said.The accident occurred at Chipisai, under the Kokcho police outpost.They were returning home from...

Chaibasa, March 13 A wild elephant killed a pregnant woman in the Goilkera area of Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, a police officer said.The incident occurred on Thursday night when the 30-year-old woman, Rani Boipai, came out of her home in Kuida village, suspecting the presence of an...

New Delhi, March 13 – In response to media reports on missing person cases, the NHRC has issued notices to the Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police of Bihar, Odisha, Telangana, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan, requesting a detailed report on the matter within two weeks, an official said...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Secretary, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, Ranchi, and the Deputy Commissioner, West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, in connection with a media report regarding the death of a newborn due to inadequate...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), March 5 Security forces defused a "high-intensity" IED in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, a police officer said on Thursday.West Singhbhum SP Amit Renu told

In the Saranda area of the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, an IED was recovered during an anti-Naxal operation and was safely defused on the spot by the bomb disposal squad. The explosive was found during a search operation along the roadside between Edelbeda and Babudera, which falls...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), March 3 – An excise department officer was injured after a mob attacked the team during a raid in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, officials said on Tuesday.The excise department team had gone to raid an illegal liquor manufacturing unit in the area when the...

Khunti (Jharkhand), March 3 Three people were killed after a motorcycle was hit by a truck in Khunti district, Jharkhand, police said on Tuesday.The accident occurred in Tudigarha village, under the Rania Police Station, about 100 km from the state capital Ranchi, on Monday night, a senior...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), March 2 A 57-year-old "ojha" (traditional healer) is alleged to have raped a minor girl at her house after performing rituals to cure the victim's brother in a village in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, police said on Monday.The "ojha," who had previously served a...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), March 1 Two personnel from the CoBRA battalion were seriously injured in an IED blast caused by Maoists during an anti-Naxal operation in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on Sunday, a senior police officer said.The incident occurred when security forces were...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), March 1 An assistant commandant of CoBRA, a special unit of the CRPF, was injured in an IED explosion during an anti-Maoist operation in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on Sunday, a senior police officer said.The incident occurred in the Saranda forest when an...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), February 28 A man was arrested on Saturday for killing a four-year-old boy in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, a senior officer said.Sub-Divisional Police Officer (Sadar Chaibasa) Bahaman Tuti said that the accused, identified as Devendra Bodra of Ulidih village...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), February 21 Two people, including a CRPF soldier, were injured in an IED blast in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on Saturday, a senior police officer said.The incident occurred when the improvised explosive device (IED) went off during an anti-Maoist operation...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), February 19 In a compassionate initiative, the West Singhbhum police will send a team to Kerala to bring back a young man who was separated from his father 13 years ago after getting on the wrong train, and help reunite him with his family in Jharkhand, officials said on...

Chaibasa, February 18 A 32-year-old woman and her baby were allegedly set on fire in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand after she was branded a witch, police said on Wednesday.The incident occurred at a village in the Kumardungi police station area late on Tuesday, and four people have...

Chaibasa (Jharkhand), February 18 Two people were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly strangling their friend to death in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand three days ago, police said.The two accused were apprehended from their residences in the Bhuiyansai village under the Hatgamariah...