Jharkhand

Social media is rife with videos of confrontations at Sammed Shikharji, where Jain pilgrims have accused tourists of recasting a sacred Jain shrine as a “Parshuram Temple”.

A NITI Aayog assessment this February found that, under a net‑zero scenario, mineral demand will be 51% higher than under current policy. In other words, dependence deepens, not eases, precisely as India races to build EVs, batteries, defence platforms and renewable capacity.

Following a 24-day agitation, the Jharkhand government cancelled the JSSC-CGL exam and ordered a CID probe into recruitment irregularities since 2014. However, protesting students have refused to call off their demonstration, demanding an independent investigation by the CBI.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has urged Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren to meet students protesting over JPSC and JSSC recruitment exam irregularities. The intervention follows heavy police deployment, action against journalists, and the deteriorating health of hunger-striking leader Devendra Nath Mahato.

The JPSC scam is a textbook illustration of how bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption allow the infestation of multilayered networks of exam mafia and shady private firms wrapped like a parasite around the very machinery that is tasked with selecting the officers and staff for running the government.

Arfa Khanum Sherwani’s reaction to Rahul Gandhi exposes the Left’s selective outrage and its willingness to overlook student suffering when political allies are in the dock.

As the student protest intensifies in Jharkhand, the Ranchi Police has said that it will use pellet guns against student protestors in case of “emergency”.

After days of dodging the Jharkhand protests, CJP's Abhijeet Dipke announced a visit only after accusations of selective activism and hypocrisy became impossible to ignore, raising fresh questions about whether the group's protests are driven by principle or political convenience.