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Debashish Sarkar

Debashish Sarkar is a special correspondent based in Jamshedpur. He has been covering government, administration, politics and crime among other things.

Articles by Debashish Sarkar

Hope for HCL’s Surda mine reopening as state issues letter of intent

The letter of intent, issued on Thursday, has paved the way for early ministerial approval and reopening of the Surda mine that will benefit 1,500 workers, who are currently unemployed.

Indian Copper Complex(hindustancopper.com)
Updated on Aug 09, 2020 02:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ranchi | By

Covid-19, chicken pox, road accident fail to stop Jharkhand girl from cracking UPSC

Mumal, daughter of Jamshedpur chief forest conservator Jabbar Singh, was happy to have achieved a 173rd All India Rank (AIR) in UPSC this year in her fourth attempt.

Several UPSC aspirants across Jharkhand cracked the exam this year.(Sushil Kumar/ Hindustan Times/For Representative Purposes Only)
Updated on Aug 06, 2020 06:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByDebashish Sarkar | Posted by: Shankhyaneel Sarkar

Jobless, homeless woman rides 1,800 km on scooter from Pune to meet son in Jamshedpur

It took the young woman and her friend four days to cover a distance of 1,800 km on a scooter.

Sonia Das (on the scooter) and her friend Sabia Bano on their way from Pune to Jamshedpur.(Sourced)
Updated on Jul 25, 2020 09:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | ByDebashish Sarkar| Edited by Sabir Hussain

Sonu Sood comes to the rescue of Jharkhand-Bihar students stuck in Kyrgyzstan

Sonu Sood is helping to bring back home the students from Jharkhand and Bihar, who are stranded in Kyrgyzstan. The process for their evacuation has begun.

Sonu Sood is helping the students who are stranded in Kyrgyzstan.
Updated on Jul 20, 2020 08:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

Thieves dined on mutton before stealing from Covid patient’s home in Jamshedpur

The thieves entered the house of the patient, who works in the surveillance team of Jugsalai Nagar Parishad, by breaking open the rear door with sharp weapons and crowbar, police said.

The house doors were opened using a crowbar.(HT Photos)
Updated on Jul 19, 2020 12:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ranchi | By

Cyber fraud: Jamshedpur police freeze Rs 17 lakh in 10 accounts after woman duped of Rs 75.53 lakh

Pravati’s nephew Chandan Banerjee received a call and the caller introduced himself as an employee of Vodafone mobile tower company on January 29, 2019.

All the 19 accused are based in West Bengal, mostly in Kolkata. Preliminary investigation has found the company to be fake.(HT Archive)
Updated on Jul 18, 2020 12:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ranchi | By

Furore over Jamshedpur school asking students to learn Pakistan, Bangladesh national anthems

The school teacher Shaila Parveen had given home tasks to the UKG and LKG students of Sant Nandlal Smriti Vidya Mandir (SNSVM) to learn and practice national anthems of Pakistan and Bangladesh on July 7 and 8.

Published on Jul 12, 2020 05:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

Officials trace nine cases to Covid-19 patient, hit a wall

Jamshedpur civil surgeon, Dr Maheshwar Prasad, however, said the Tube Division employee from Kamdhenu Apartment was still not revealing his travel and contact history.

Tata Main Hospital (TMH) Covid wing in Jamshedpur.(Manoj Kumar/ Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jun 23, 2020 03:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

CRPF personnel in Jharkhand booked for allegedly beating villagers in anti-Maoist ops

The CRPF in its counter-complaint said four village youths started fleeing and when caught they got into a scuffle with the jawans who had also seized Maoist pamphlets from their houses.

A CRPF patrol allegedly beat up villagers in a remote village in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district.(PTI)
Published on Jun 21, 2020 05:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

Families pay final tributes as bravehearts laid to rest

HT Image
Published on Jun 19, 2020 12:22 AM IST
ByDebashish Sarkar/Tanmay Chattarjee and Ranjan

In death, soldiers provide roads, street lights to their impoverished villages

Ahead of the funeral of the fallen soldiers, the local administration in some of India’s most impoverished villages were working overtime to build make-shift mud roads, first for some of these villages and also installed street lights. visiting.

Ganesh Kunjam was among the 20 soldiers killed in a clash with Chinese troops in Galwan valley of eastern Ladakh, built a concrete house for his family in a remote village in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist affected Kanker district .((Twitter))
Published on Jun 18, 2020 07:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur/Kolkata/Bhopal | ByDebashish Sarkar,Tanmay Chattarjee and Ranjan

Sepoy Ganesh Hansda, 22, killed in Ladakh face-off was on his 1st posting

Ganesh Hansda, says his brother, was to be transferred but it was delayed due to the coronavirus crisis.

Ganesh Hansda was very fond of playing football and promoting Santhali language. (HT Photo)
Updated on Jun 17, 2020 09:01 PM IST
Hindusatn Times, Jamshedpur | ByDebashish Sarkar | Edited by Ashutosh Tripathi

Everest scaling Premlata Agrawal’s Padma Shri Award stolen in Jamshedpur

Her husband filed a complaint with the police, a copy of which is with the HT, alleging that the thieves also stole Rs 20,000, 15 silver coins and two computer hard discs.

Agrawal is India’s oldest woman to climb Mount Everest.(REUTERS)
Updated on Jun 16, 2020 01:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | ByDebashish Sarkar | Edited by Sparshita Saxena

Jamshedpur: Life imprisonment for one in minor’s rape-murder, two get jail terms

The other two convicted co-accused were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and seven years, respectively, Ramesh Narayan Tiwari, public prosecutor (PP), said on Monday.

On July 29, 2019, Rinku Sahu was arrested on the basis of closed-circuit TV (CCTV) footage, which showed him carrying the victim on his shoulder at night on July 25.(HT Archives. Representative image)
Updated on Jun 16, 2020 07:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

Beds to increase to 1,000 in Jamshedpur, state’s top Covid-19 hotspot

The district’s tally went up to 173 after 15 cases were reported by late Friday night and eight more on Saturday.

34 have so far recovered and have been discharged from TMH. Kolhan division’s tally also went up to 214 with West Singhbhum having 21 positive patients and Seraikela-Kharsawan district having 20 patients.(HT Photos)
Updated on Jun 07, 2020 11:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ranchi | By

Cop, chowkidar killed in Maoist ambush Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district

This was the first setback for police and CRPF in West Singhbhum district after they killed six left wing extremists in April and May in two operations.

Jharkhand is one of the worst left wing extremism affected state.(HT FILE PHOTO)
Updated on May 31, 2020 09:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | ByDebashish Sarkar| Edited by Sabir Hussain

Neighbours suspect Jamshedpur man died of Covid-19, kin refuses to take body

The swab samples of the deceased have been sent for Covid-19 testing to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College (MGMMC).

The man who was a cancer patient, died alone in a flat.(Representative photo/Getty Images)
Published on Apr 21, 2020 08:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

7 Japanese sent back from Jamshedpur during Covid-19 lockdown after request from Japan

India too has been evacuating its citizens from various countries like China, Iran, Italy, Spain, Germany, UK and other Southeast Asian countries since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic.

Jharkhand Police officials check vehicles entering state from neighbouring West Bengal and Odisha during the nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, near Jamshedpur.(PTI Photo)
Updated on Apr 08, 2020 09:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

UP-bound 13 bikers from Vizag caught in Jamshedpur, quarantined in PCTC

All of them have now been put in institutional quarantine at Police Constable Training Centre (PCTC) in Swaspur under Jadugora police station area in East Singhbhum district.

13 bikers ave now been put in institutional quarantine at Police Constable Training Centre(Pratik Chorge/HT Photo)
Updated on Apr 07, 2020 11:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ranchi | By, Jamshedpur

Covid-19 sample collection mobile booth becomes operational in Chaibasa

District deputy commissioner Arava Rajkamal and civil surgeon Dr Manju Dubey launched the static booth in Chaibasa on Saturday. The booth — look alike a phone booth — has been designed and developed by DDC Aditya Ranjan and two engineers from district rural development agency.

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Updated on Apr 05, 2020 06:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

Coronavirus update: Vizag man walks home from Jamshedpur to see sick mother, brought back

M Venkat Raju, who had started on Friday, was spotted by West Singhbhum police in Goilkera—122.9km from Jamshedpur—around 1pm on Saturday, officials said on Sunday.

Sudhir Prakash, Goilkera BDO, said Venkat has been put under isolation in Goilkera Panchayat Bhawan.(PTI file photo. Image for representational purpose)
Updated on Mar 30, 2020 08:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

Doctor couple resign over Covid-19 ward duty, get 24 hours to re-join or face action

India is under a complete nationwide lockdown for 21 days as the number of coronavirus disease, Covid-19, cases in India crossed 530 and the death toll rose to 10.

Dr Manju Dubey, West Singhbhum civil surgeon, said on Tuesday she has served a 24-hour ultimatum on Dr Alok Tirkey asking him to re-join duty immediately following state health secretary Dr Nitin Madan Kulkarni’s directive in the morning. (File photo for representation)
Updated on Mar 25, 2020 07:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

SIT links Jharkhand killings to Pathalgadi movement, PLFI

The SIT was constituted to find the reasons behind the crime. A police officer who asked not to be named, said the SIT will submit its report to the government in the next two to three days.

District administration officials investigating after killing of villagers by Pathalgadi supporters at Burugulikera in Jharkhand’s Chaibasa on Wednesday January 22,2020.(Manoj Kumar / HT File)
Updated on Feb 01, 2020 08:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

FIR against 214 in Jharkhand beheadings case; bodies buried under police protection

The police had so far maintained that the killing was result of a dispute between the pro- and anti-Pathalgadi groups in the village on January 16, which further escalated on January 19, when the seven were badly beaten up in the village gram sabha and beheaded in a nearby forests, where their bodies were found on Tuesday.

Police have also collected blood-stained mud from the crime site, but have failed to recover the weapons that were used.(HT File / Photo used for representational purpose only)
Updated on Jan 25, 2020 07:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By

Jharkhand murders expose fault lines in tribal village line

Officials said additional forces were deployed to prevent further escalation in violence amid strong sentiments for and against the movement, through which several villages in the region have declared self-governance.

Chief minister Hemant Soren meets family members of those killed allegedly by Pathalgadi movement supporters, in West Shingbhum district of Jharkhand on Thursday.(PTI Photo)
Updated on Jan 24, 2020 12:05 AM IST
Hindustan times, Jharkhand | By

Seven beheaded in Jharkhand village, CM Soren sets up SIT

Police said it took them 24 hours to recover the bodies of the seven and a search was on to find out two other villages, who had gone missing along with them.

Police said it not immediately clear what triggered the killings .(HT File Photo)
Updated on Jan 23, 2020 07:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Sonua (West Singhbhum) | By

7 tribals kidnapped after protests against Pathalgadi found with slit throat

Murari Lal Meena, senior Jharkhand police officer told Hindustan Times that the role played by the villagers to oppose the Pathalgadi movement prima facie appeared to have triggered the “gruesome massacre”

Villagers pulled down Pathalgadi plaque at Chitramu village in Khunti, India, on Thursday, July 20, 2018. The pathalgadi movement has its origin in a resistance movement by tribals during British rule.(HT File Photo)
Published on Jan 22, 2020 03:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | By
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