Both the ruling combine and the Opposition in Jharkhand have put in their full strength to win the bypoll for the Mandar Assembly constituency, slated for June 23. While the Congress, a major constit...

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren has urged Union minister Nitin Gadkari for widening important highway stretches in the state, particularly from Basukinath to Dumka. In a letter to Gadkari on Th...

The inaugural day of the event also marked the inauguration of the travelling library, a 1950s model US-make Fargo truck which had served the local state library for several years. “The travell...

One of the oldest state libraries on wheels of the state at Dumka, titled, Bhramanshil Pustkalaya, Santhal Pargana established way back in 1956 which has travelled altogether 76000 km spreading w...

“During festivals, Naushad used to put up shamianas (tents) for the kirtans and devotees since the two decades. Now he has completed the temple. He was passionately involved in the project for o...

Quick facts:  Massanjore is 270 km from Kolkata, 70 km from Bolpur and 32 km from Dumka. Buses plying between Siuri and Dumka pass through Massanjore. The Massanjore Dam, built in the 1950s w...

A 58-year-old woman was assaulted and forced to swallow excreta by her own relatives on the suspicion of being a witch at a village in Dumka district. The incident took place on the night of December...

Ghastly result Sir — Truth is stranger than fiction in a democracy. We have all heard of ghost voters — fake voters or dead persons in whose names votes are still cast — and politic...

A man has been allegedly cast out from his village in Dumka district of Jharkhand by the panchayat for opposing child marriages. The issue came to light on Thursday when Basharat Ansari, 50, a reside...

A woman was stripped and paraded naked with a garland of shoes around her neck in Jharkhand's Dumka district over her relationship with a married man, police said on Saturday. Six people were arr...