A 30-year-old man was allegedly run over by a tractor in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Friday after he confronted its driver over illegal sand mining.

The beheaded body of a 17-year-old girl was found in Jharkhand's Dumka district, police said on Friday.

Tadasha Mishra, a 1994-batch IPS officer, on Friday assumed charge as the acting Director General of Police (DGP) of Jharkhand -- becoming the first woman to head the state police force in its 25-year history.

Sanjay Singh, the Jan Suraaj Party candidate from Bihar's Munger Assembly seat, joined the BJP on Wednesday, on the eve of the first phase of assembly elections, officials said.

Panic gripped the Belabagan Kalibari area of Deoghar on Wednesday afternoon after a young couple was found dead inside their rented accommodation under mysterious circumstances.

A man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping a 43-year-old woman in Jharkhand's Palamu district, police said.

In a shocking incident, a youth allegedly hacked his pregnant minor girlfriend to death with an axe in a village in Jharkhand's Gumla district on Tuesday, police officials said.

In a major crackdown on organised crime, Dhanbad Police on Tuesday carried out massive raids at 30 locations across the district targeting the network of the notorious 'Wasseypur gang' led by fugitive gangster Prince Khan.

A man allegedly killed his 70-year-old mother on the suspicion that she practiced witchcraft, at Bhadra Digha village in Jharkhand's Dumka, police said on Monday.

The Jharkhand labour department has contacted the Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia to facilitate the return of the body of a 26-year-old youth from Dumri block in Giridih, who was killed in a shootout in Jeddah on October 16, officials said on Friday.

Forty-eight migrant workers from Jharkhand, who are stranded in the African country of Tunisia, have appealed to the Indian government to facilitate their return to India.

The Delhi Police has arrested a 59-year-old man for his alleged involvement in espionage activities, including links with a foreign-based nuclear scientist, and a fake passport racket operating from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, an official said

Bodies of two persons, who had gone missing while bathing in the Sone river on the occasion of the Chhath festival, were fished out in Jharkhand's Palamu district, police said.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Sunday ordered the suspension of West Singhbum district Civil Surgeon and other concerned officials after five children suffering from thalassemia tested HIV-positive following blood transfusions.

Four more children suffering from thalassemia were detected HIV-positive in Jharkhand's Chaibasa town on Saturday during an investigation by a five-member medical team from Ranchi, taking the total number of affected minors to five.

A man, whom police believe to have Maoist links, was killed in an encounter in Assam's Kokrajhar district early Saturday. The man was identified as Ipil Murmu alias Rohit Murmu, a resident of Kokrajhar.

The Telangana anti-narcotics wing--EAGLE--on Wednesday said it in a joint operation with the Narcotics Control Bureau, Ranchi Division, intercepted a lorry transporting ganja in Jharkhand and seized 500 kg of ganja.

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Hemant Soren's Jharkhand Mukti Morcha or JMM has announced that it would not contest the assembly elections in Bihar, a day after declaring that it would go solo and contest six seats in the neighbouring state

A man mowed down his younger brother with a truck following a dispute over loan instalment payments in Jharkhand's Deoghar district on Sunday, police said.

A 47-year-old hotel owner in Ranchi was shot dead after a vegetarian customer was allegedly served non-veg biryani, police said on Sunday.

Hemant Soren's Jharkhand Mukti Morcha declared today that it would contest the elections in Bihar on its own, creating another rift within the Opposition Grand Alliance. The party made no secret that it is now on the warpath.

Jharkhand's ruling JMM on Saturday announced that it will contest the Bihar assembly polls independently, and field candidates in six seats.

Jharkhand humbled former champions Tamil Nadu by an innings and 114 runs with young off-spinner Rishav Raj grabbing four wickets on the fourth and final day.