Jharkhand elected 10 women to the 82-member Assembly — 81 elected and one nominated — in the just-concluded state polls. In 2005, only five women became MLAs. In 2009, the figure rose to eight. In...
The Jharkand Mukti Morcha's (JMM) vote share in the just-concluded Jharkhand Assembly polls has shrunk by around 1.7 per cent to 18.72 per cent despite the party winning 30 of the total 81 seats in th...
Opposition parties on Monday linked Jharkhand’s electoral mandate to the amended Citizenship Act and the NRC, saying people have demolished “arrogance” of the BJP.The ruling party attributed its...
The JMM on Saturday submitted a memorandum to the state chief electoral officer (CEO) with certain demands to ensure complete transparency during counting of votes for the Assembly elections on Monday...
The Citizenship Amendment Bill will affect thousands of people in Jharkhand as well, but the Opposition parties here have maintained silence on the issue over which larges swathes of the country have ...
The business of elections is booming in Silli, the Assembly seat where Ajsu Party chief Sudesh Mahto is taking on the JMM’s sitting MLA Seema Devi.Youths zip by on fancy bikes, flashing party flags ...
The second phase of the Assembly polls is crucial for the BJP as well as the main Opposition party, the JMM, because most of the 20 seats that will vote on Saturday are tribal dominated. The 20 seats...
Former Union minister P. Chidambaram will bat for the JMM-Congress-RJD alliance in Jharkhand on Friday.“He will reach Ranchi on Friday at 9.30am and he will address a news meet at 12.30pm,” state...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on the Opposition JMM-Congress alliance in Jharkhand, alleging it followed the politics of 'deception' while the BJP believed in se...
A decade ago, Saranda, Asia’s largest sal forest in Manoharpur Assembly seat, around 175km southeast of Jamshedpur, trembled under the boots of Maoists. Now, guns are largely silent in Manoharpur As...