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Dhanbad

Dhanbad (dänˈbäd), city, Jharkand state, E central India. On the Damodar River and adjacent to dammed lakes, Dhanbad is a new city that serves as a district administrative center. It is India's leading producer of coal. The Indian School of Mines and Applied Geology is in the city, as well as the Central Fuel Research Institute.

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Summary: Dhanbad (Jharkhand) [India], May 11 (ANI): Dhanbad city in Jharkhand, which has always been known as the land of coal mafia and gangsters, is all set to go to polls on May 12.

No influence of mafias, gangs in ongoing LS elections: Dhanbad Police

AN ACID attack victim from Dhanbad has refused a job offer by the Jharkhand government in her native town because it was where she was brutally attacked in 2003.

Acid attack victim turns down job in Dhanbad

RANCHI, May 14, 2010 (Frontier Star): In a hair-raising incident, a husband stitched the private parts of his wife with wire in Jharkhand's Dhanbad city after her request to visit her parents enraged him, police said Friday.

Husband stitches wife's private parts with wire

Summary: Dhanbad (Jharkhand) [India], May 10 (ANI): Political temperature in Dhanbad is at its peak these days and it is incomplete without discussing Singh Mansion, the place which remained the power centre for decades.

Singh Mansion of Dhanbad trying to reinstate its lost power

LESS than three weeks after Jharkhand got its first allwomen post office in Jamshedpur, a similar facility is set to be inaugurated in Dhanbad district on Monday.

Fair deal for women at Jharkhand post office

Summary: Dhanbad (Jharkhand) [India], May 10 (ANI): Congress leader Kirti Azad knows nothing about development that took place in Dhanbad during last five years as he lived in Delhi, said sitting MP and BJP candidate from Dhanbad Lok Sabha constituency Pashupati Nath Singh.

Kirti Azad knows nothing about Dhanbad, he lived in Delhi: BJP candidate

Summary: Dhanbad (Jharkhand) [India], May 9 (ANI): Congress leader Kirti Azad on Thursday said he is confident of winning by a huge margin against sitting Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) MP PN Singh from Dhanbad.