Tribal leaders outrightly rejected any move to change the CNT Act and lambasted some of the tribal leaders and political class that have advocated changes in century-old Land Act.

In the middle of a raging, divisive debate in Jharkhand over the provisions of a law that aims to protect the tribals’ land, several politicians, including some in the ruling coalition, are battlin

Unclean drinking water has become the bane of doctors and patients alike at Sadar Hospital in Ranchi.

The district administration has filed a case against Bokaro Thermal Power Station (BTPS) for releasing hazardous industrial waste into the Konar river in spite of repeated reminders asking the DVC–

A number of public and private sector enterprises have put the state in a legal fix by refusing to cough up water tariffs that have been imposed by the government.

Jharkhand looks headed for fierce acrimony between tribals and non-tribals over proposed amendments to a hundred-year-old law that restricts sale and purchase of tribal land in order to protect the primitive communities. Political parties are bitterly divided even as protests are spreading across the state.

Simmering discontent and a growing series of demonstrations and processions by both supporters and opponents of the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908, for a fortnight has created what political observers describe as a “civil-war situation” in Jharkhand.

Ranchi, Feb.

Ranchi, Feb. 15: The Patratu Thermal Power Station has enough coal at its disposal to produce electricity for 16 days.

The Bokaro deputy commissioner has ordered the heads of mining companies and the district administrative and police brass to fill up abandoned and illegal mines in the coal belt following two incid

Jharkhand wants the Centre’s go-ahead for forest diversion to set up 17 CRPF camps in Saranda, even though forest clearance authority lies with the state and the move is only expected to delay the