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Jharkhand
Jharkhand 
pronunciation (help·info) (Hindi: झारखंड, Bengali: ঝাড়খণ্ড,IPA: [dʒʰaːrkʰəɳɖ]) is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar state on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east.
The industrial city of Ranchi is its capital. Some of the other major cities and industrial centres are Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Sindri, Giridih, Gumla, Deoghar, Hazaribagh and Dhanbad once a part of West Bengal.
Jharkhand is famed for its mineral wealth and forestry products.
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Hazaribag or Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary is in Jharkhand, India, established in 1955. It has an area of 184 km² and is home to leopards, tigers and sloths among many other animals.
Nestling in low hilly terrain, at an average altitude of 615 meters in the Indian state of Jharkhand, the Hazaribagh National Park has an abundance of wild animals like the wild boar, sambar, nilgai, chital, sloth bear, tiger and panther.
The climate in this region is tropical with hot summers and cold winters. Temperature during the summer months touch a high of 41.1'C and a low of 19.4'C. Winter months are better and the temperature ranges between a maximum and minimum of 19.4'C and 7'C. The monsoon months are July to mid-September.
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Babulal Marandi is the first chief minister of Jharkhand.
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Shibu Soren (born 11 January 1944) was an Indian Criminal MP and was until recently a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Dumka constituency of Jharkhand and is the president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) political party.
He was the Minister for Coal in the Manmohan Singh cabinet in November 2006, when a Delhi court found him guilty in the killing of his private secretary Shashi Nath Jha in 1994. He is also charged with a number of other murders, and also other criminal charges, relating to a bribery deal with the Congress to save the Narasimha Rao government in a no-confidence motion in July 1993. He is the first Union Minister of the Government of India to be found guilty of the charge of murder.
He was born in Nemra village of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand States and territories of India. He completed his schooling from the same district. After schooling, he got married and decided to work with his father who was a farmer. He has three sons and a daughter.
He started his political career in the early 1970s and rose to become a tribal leader. On 23 January 1975, he allegedly led a mob that attacked the Muslim-dominated Chirudih village in Jamtara district in a campaign to drive away "outsiders", a term used to describe non-tribals. Ten people including nine Muslims were killed in the attack. Along with sixty eight others, he was charged for murder. He lost his first Lok Sabha election in 1977. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980. In 1986, an arrest warrant was issued against him. He was subsequently elected to the Lok Sabha in 1989, 1991 and 1996 as well. In 2002, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha with the help of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He won the Dumka Lok Sabha seat in a by-election the same year and resigned his Rajya Sabha seat. He was re-elected in 2004.
He became the Union Coal Minister in the Manmohan Singh government (2004–2009), but was asked to resign following an arrest warrant in his name in a thirty year old case of killing 11 people in Chirrudih. After the warrant was issued, he initially went underground. He resigned on 24 July 2004. He is a member of the Lok Sabha representing Dumka, Jharkhand elected for the sixth time to the Lok Sabha in 2004. He was re-inducted into the Union Cabinet and given back the coal ministry on 27 November 2004.
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Educational Institutions: Vinoba Bhave University, Sidhhu Kanhu University, Cambridge Institute of Technology, Doranda College, Ranchi College, St. Paul's College, Ranchi, Chhotanagpur Law College, Ranchi Women's College
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Jharkhand was formed on November_15, 2000 as the 28th state of India.
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Jamsehdpur pronunciation (help·info) (जमशेदपूर in Devanagari) is a city located in the state of Jharkand in India, founded by the late Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata as Sakchi. Located in the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on the Chota Nagpur plateau, Jamshedpur is surrounded by the beautiful Dalma Hills, and the rivers Subarnrekha and Kharkai border the North & West of the city, respectively. The reason for the founding of Jamshedpur was the starting up of the first Iron and steel plant in India, by Tata Steel.
In 1919 Lord Chelmsford named the city Jamshedpur, in honour of its founder, Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata , whose birthday is celebrated on 3rd March as Founder's Day. J. N. Tata had written to his son Dorabji Tata about his vision of a great city in the area. Jamshedpur is nicknamed as the Steel City. It is also referred to as Tatanagar after the name of its railway station, or simply as 'Tata' in deference to the significant presence of Tata companies in the city.
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