Former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Member of Parliament Mohammad Shahabuddin has surrendered before a local court. “I don’t care about what people say. I respect the judiciary,” the former MP told reporters before surrendering. The Siwan-based don had been asked to surrender by the Supreme Court on Friday. Shahabuddin was[Read More…]
The Patna High Court on Friday struck down Bihar government’s Prohibition of Liquor Act by calling it illegal. Even though Bihar CM had roped in many JD(U) workers to support the ban, the court overturned the decision. The recently passed Bill- the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Bill -2016 had very[Read More…]
Perhaps the most ‘tech-savvy’ golgappa wala ever, Patna’s Satyam offers people the option of paying through mobile-based app- Paytm. This 12th pass vendor near Women’s college Magadh, hails from Samastipur, Bihar and comes from a humble background. His father is a farmer and he plans to pursue his education by[Read More…]
Being a con artist is a profession that requires constant innovation; one is required to come up with new methods, identities and in this case, even change their sex. Bihar Police were in for a shocker when a Patna-based con man ran his operations in the heart of the capital[Read More…]
In a tragic incident, at least 35 passengers were killed when a bus fell into a roadside pond in Bihar’s Madhubani district. The accident took place at Basaitha chowk under Bennipatti police station in Madhubani, about 50 km from the district headquarters. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Benipatti Nirmala Kumari[Read More…]
A plea seeking cancellation of bail for former RJD MP and gangster-turned-politician’s Mohammad Shahabuddin’s will be taken up by Supreme Court on Monday. Filed by a Siwan resident Chandrakeshwar Prasad, whose son was allegedly murdered by Sahabuddin, the petition argues that he would misuse his liberty to derail the trial[Read More…]
Mohammad Kaif, an alleged sharpshooter who has been named in the murder of Journalist Rajdeo Ranjan is making rounds of news and is triggering Twitter war between politicians. Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav on Friday in a series of tweets posted photographs of Kaif and another sharpshooter Iqbal Shaikh[Read More…]
Bihar’s don-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin was seen in the company of Mohammad Kaif, an alleged sharp shooter who has been named in the murder of Journalist Rajdeo Ranjan. While he was giving his assessment of chief minister Nitish Kumar’s government after stepping out of prison, Kaif was spotted by his side.[Read More…]
On September 13, 1996 Ghulam Haider’s family was allegedly murdered by RJD leader and don, Mohammad Shahabuddin. A year later two more Left activists – Chandrashekhar and Shyam Narain Yadav were also allegedly shot by the notorious politician. Twenty years later, as Shahabuddin walked free after getting bail in one of[Read More…]
Gangster-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin, walked out on Saturday after spending 11 years in jail. The former lawmaker from Lalu Yadav’s RJD, was granted bail earlier this week in a murder case. He received a grand welcome at the gates of Bhagalpur prison, as he was greeted by thousands of supporters in[Read More…]
The Supreme Court will hear a plea against Lalu Prasad Yadav in the fodder scam case on Wednesday. It has issued a notice to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in connection with the embezzlement of about ₹9.4 billion from the government treasury[Read More…]
Work for a month and expect your salary at the end of it. This is a routine everyone follows but the Bihar government. The state government has been delaying the payment of salaries to high school and plus two teachers for the past 6 months. However, after much uproar over[Read More…]
At a time when cases related to judicial delays and logjams paint a macabre picture of Indian Judiciary, this Bihar Lok Adalat stands out for its humane gesture. A local court in Bihar waived off a decade old loan taken by a woman whose eight-year-old son came to repay it[Read More…]
An entire village in Bihar has been fined for consuming alcohol. A collective fine was imposed on all the 50 households of the village in Islampur block following recovery of liquor bottles. CM Nitish Kumar has made Bihar a dry state like Modiji’s Gujarat. After the stringent liquor prohibition was[Read More…]
After a shocking incident of removal of Dalit woman from duty of preparing food for school students, the Aurangabad DM, Kanwal Tanuj has set an example by restoring her after sharing food prepared by her along with school students. The unfortunate incident happened at Batura government school in Aurangabad district[Read More…]
On the lines of Mumbai’s Marine Drive , Patna city in Bihar will soon have its own ‘Ganga Path.’ Chief minister Nitish Kumar’s dream project as it is being called, will soon become a reality in 2019. Kumar had laid the foundation stone of this ambitious project on October 11,[Read More…]
A group of right-winged activists from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad ABVP and Bajrang Dal ‘cleansed’ the statue of renowned Hindi poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar with ‘gangajal’ in Bihar’s Begusarai district to protest against JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar’s floral tribute to the poet on Friday. The ABVP and Bajrang Dal[Read More…]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a $500 million loan to build a bridge across Ganges River in Bihar. “The 9.8 km road bridge in Bihar will be India’s longest river bridge and will provide vital transport link between the northern and southern parts of the state and neighbouring Nepal,”[Read More…]
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Bihar topper scam on Sunday recovered a pistol and five live rounds during a raid at the office of the VR College principal Baccha Rai. A few days back, gold worth ₹20 lakh was found from Rai’s residence in Vaishali. On Friday, he[Read More…]
