Ranchi, January 2026 Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren visited All Souls College at the University of Oxford in January 2026 as part of an official visit to the United Kingdom. During the visit, he paid tribute to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the former President of India and one of the country’s most respected philosophers, who had…
Ranchi, March 12, 2026 Inside the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly complex on Thursday, more than 35 Members of the Legislative Assembly sat down with UNICEF officials for a very different kind of meeting. No budget demands. No opposition protests. Just one focused question: why are girls in Jharkhand still dropping out of secondary school, and what…
Ranchi, March 12, 2026 If you are a voter in Jharkhand, something important is coming to your door. Literally. The Election Commission of India is preparing to carry out a Special Intensive Revision, or SIR, of the voter list across the entire state of Jharkhand. On March 12, the Chief Electoral Officer called a meeting…
Ranchi, March 12, 2026 Jharkhand’s budget session, which is running from February 18 to March 19, 2026, has seen some of its most pointed debates around one department: Water Resources. From the very first days of the session, MLAs from across the House have pushed the government on broken handpumps, farmers still waiting for irrigation…
March 12, 2026. In the early hours of Thursday morning, a Food Safety Department team in Dhanbad intercepted a large consignment of adulterated dairy products at Station Road and seized approximately 1,400 kilograms of fake paneer along with five to seven tins of counterfeit Nepali ghee. The main person behind the smuggling was arrested on…
Ranchi, March 12, 2026 During the budget session of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly on March 12, 2026, Khijri MLA Rajesh Kachhap used the debate on Water Resources Department grant demands to raise what he called a slowly building emergency. Ranchi’s dams and natural water sources are drying up. The reasons, he told the House, are…
As long queues and booking failures created visible panic at gas agencies across Ranchi on Wednesday, the district administration moved to take control of the situation on Thursday. Deputy Commissioner Manjunath Bhajantri convened an emergency meeting with representatives of gas companies and agency operators on March 12, 2026, and emerged with a clear public message:…
March 2026 There is a particular kind of denial that settles in slowly in places where the weather has always been harsh. In Jharkhand, summers have always been hot. People have always managed. Ceiling fans, earthen pots, afternoon rest. The heat was part of life. So when climate researchers started publishing numbers about rising temperatures…
March 2026 There is a version of Ranchi that people outside the city do not see. Not the capital city with new flyovers and shopping malls. The version where residents in areas like Hindpidhi, Harmu, and Bariatu think twice about stepping out after 8 pm. Where a phone snatching near a market is considered ordinary…
Ranchi, March 11, 2026 Residents of Ranchi were forced to queue outside gas agency offices from early morning on Wednesday as the LPG cylinder shortage triggered by rising tensions in the Middle East began to hit the city’s day-to-day supply. Long lines were visible outside Urao Gas Distributor and several other gas agencies across Ranchi,…
