The fates of 12 candidates in Dumka and 16 in Bermo will be sealed in the EVMs by 5 pm.
A former IPS officer, Ajoy Kumar was appointed as Jharkhand Congress chief in 2017. He had quit the party in 2019 to join the Aam Admi Party.
Construction of the new Assembly and High Court premises have been underway without environmental clearance, claims NGT. Interestingly, it was the previous Raghubar Das government that initiated the construction.
According to a report, 10,000 Adivasis were booked under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code by Jharkhand police.
In the just-conducted Assembly elections, the JMM-Congress-Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) alliance triumphed over the BJP, winning 47 seats in the 81-member House.
With the Bihar elections scheduled next year, the disgruntled JD (U) is going to be a major headache for BJP, which cannot wish away a tall leader like Nitish Kumar.
'People are out in the streets protesting against the NRC and CAA. Why implement the law when we can’t afford such a situation?'
Soren has been projected as the chief ministerial candidate by the JMM, Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD) alliance.
When the BJP came to power at the Centre in 2014, it commanded just seven states. Riding on a Modi wave, the party had won as many as 21 states by 2018.
Soren is set to helm the government for the second time as he was projected as the CM candidate of the JMM-Congress-RJD alliance.
'This will be my defeat, not the Bharatiya Janata Party's,' said Raghubar Das.
Coming close on the heels of the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections and months ahead of the Delhi assembly polls, the Jharkhand result has shown that the BJP’s cloak of electoral invincibility is slipping.
Political analysts say it took a while for Hemant Soren to come out of the shadows of his father, Shibu Soren.
Jharkhand is the fifth state -- after Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhatisgarh and Maharashtra in the last one year -- where the power has slipped out of its hands.
BJP’s focus on national issues like Article 370, Ram Mandir and Citizenship Act is not cutting ice with the voters – perhaps even backfiring.
The Shiv Sena also said the poll result trends show people are not buying BJP's politics based on sentimental issues like the NRC.
In a rally here on Sunday, Modi sought to allay apprehensions, especially among Muslims, on the NRC, saying his government has never discussed it since coming to power for the first time in 2014.
Despite BJP's aggressive campaign, the JMM-led alliance crossed the majority mark, as per latest trends
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.