Tag: Jharkhand

Jharkhand has had an anti-conversion law since September 2017, banning conversions extracted with the use of force or material enticements.

Pathalgadi is a practice adopted by several tribal villages in Jharkhand to declare their gram sabha as the only sovereign authority, rejecting the authority of central or state government.

In the past two years, at least seven people from the minority community - a 12-year-old boy among them - have been lynched over cattle in Jharkhand.

IN what could turn out to be a huge worry for the home ministry and security forces dealing with Naxals, the Maoists have declared that they will continue with the tactic of planting bombs in the bodies of killed security personnel like they did in Latehar in Jharkhand recently.

NAXALISM in India cannot be wished away. Even the most foolproof strategy by the best statesman in the country can go awry if it is not combined with wisdom and compassion.