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In a delayed move, JMM patriarch Shibu Soren acted against his rebellious eldest daughter-in-law and another rebel MLA for going against the party and party lines. Meanwhile, former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren’s fate continues to hang in the balance in the Supreme Court. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

The beleaguered JMM-led alliance government in Jharkhand received yet another major jolt as the Enforcement Directorate arrested the senior Congress leader and Minister in a money laundering case even as former Chief Minister Hemant Soren languishes behind the bars. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

Though the apex court agreed to list the matter of the former Jharkhand CM’s challenge to his arrest by the ED on May 17, it expressed doubts about being able to hear it. It also rejected his plea of an interim bail like that given to the Delhi [...]

At the same time, the Prime Minister claimed the Congress will get seats less than its senior leader Rahul Gandhi’s age. Sudhir Kumar Kishra reports

Undeterred by the ED raids at the premises of an aide of a State party leader and Minister that yielded over Rs 35 crore in cash, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi campaigned on three ST seats in Jharkhand, just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi did. Sudhir Kumar [...]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (May 3) addressed an election meeting in the tribal hotbed of Chaibasa. Later, he also held a roadshow in State capital Ranchi. Sudhir Kumar Mishra brings in the key highlights

As May 3 (Friday) marks one year of the ethnic clashes in the troubled northeastern State, both the rival warring communities have lined up separate events even as a shutdown has been called by a tribal body. The Indian Tribal reports

In its damning revelation, the investigating agency has in its chargesheet asserted that it was the State police personnel who drove the two tribal women, who had sought refuge in their official gypsy, to a mob of around 1,000 Meiti rioters in Kangpokpi district. The Indian Tribal reports

The JMM’s first family sought to put up a united face with Hemant’s younger brother, Basant, accompanying her ‘bhabhi’ for the filing of nomination. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

In the run-up to this Ram Navami on April 17 — the first after the construction of the grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya and the installation of the lord’s idol — roots, berries and fruits, consumed by tribals and offered to Lord Ram during his 14-year vanvaas, have [...]