Patna: A Right to Information (RTI) activist and his friend were shot dead on Sunday by unidentified assailants in Bihar’s Jamui district, police said. This is third such crime in the last three months. Valmiki Yadav and his friend Karu Yadav were attacked by motorcycle-borne assailants near Bichwe village in[Read More…]
New Delhi: Among the 108 most backward districts across the country, Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara has shown the least improvement while Gujarat’s Dahod has shown the most, the NITI Aayog said on Friday. Releasing the first delta ranking of the most backward districts in the country — which the NITI[Read More…]
Patna: A Dalit youth was shot dead in a Bihar village during a clash over dancing at a wedding, following which half a dozen vehicles were damaged by protesting villagers, police said on Thursday. Naveen Manjhi, a member of the Musahar community that is one of the most marginalised among[Read More…]
Patna: Gunmen shot dead a businessman in Bihar’s Saran district on Thursday, triggering violent protests, police said. Shaukat Ali was targeted near the Matitar High School, barely 100 metres away from his residence. The victim, who ran a tent and catering business and a chicken farm, was quite popular, neighbours[Read More…]
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said climate change has been affecting the state over the years and its impact is visible, with monsoon getting delayed every year and the volume of rain also showing a downward trend. Although the state had hardly contributed to the phenomenon of[Read More…]
Patna: Amid growing restlessness over seat sharing for the 2019 elections among the allies of the BJP-led NDA in Bihar, a senior BJP leader on Monday said the party would contest from all Lok Sabha seats it won last time in the state. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Rajender[Read More…]
Patna: Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav on Friday targeted Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying the law and order situation in Bihar was shameful and asked him to break his silence over it. A day after a 45-year-old woman and her 14-year-old daughter were allegedly gang-raped by nearly a dozen youths[Read More…]
Patna: A woman and her daughter were allegedly gangraped by nearly a dozen youths in Bihar’s Gaya district, police said on Thursday. The police have detained 20 youths and are interrogating them to identify the main accused among them, Gaya Senior Superintendent of Police Rajeev Mishra told the media. The[Read More…]
Patna: Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday claimed that BJP ally and RLSP chief and Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha will join the Grand Alliance soon. If Upendra Kushwaha said ‘no’ to joining the Grand Alliance, his ‘no’ means ‘yes’. Try to understand it. He will join Grand[Read More…]
Two years after imposing a blanket ban on consumption of liquor, the Bihar government now plans to ban the sale and consumption of khaini (a processed tobacco product that is widely consumed in large parts of India). The state government has written a letter to the Centre requesting it to[Read More…]
Patna: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan was on Thursday shown black flags by protesters in his parliamentary constituency Hajipur in Bihar, police said. Over two dozen protesters belonging to the Sanyukt Sangharsh Morcha waved black flags at the convoy of the Lok Janshakti Party supremo near a hotel in Hajipur,[Read More…]
Patna: The Janata Dal (United) core committee met in Patna on Sunday ahead of a meeting of the National Democratic Alliance scheduled later this week, after which a senior party leader said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is the face of the NDA in Bihar. Kumar, also the JD(U) national president, held[Read More…]
Patna: After JD-U and LJP, another BJP ally — Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) — on Saturday demanded a decision on which party will contest how many seats in of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, citing lack of coordination in the BJP-led NDA. RLSP chief and Union Minister of State for[Read More…]
Patna: The death anniversary of slain Ranvir Sena chief Brahameshwar Singh Mukhiya was commemorated as ‘Martyr Day’ here on Friday. Brahameshwar Singh Mukhiya was a farmer leader who fought for the rights and protection of farmers, Swarn Sena’s national convener Bhagwat Sharma said. Brahameshwar Singh was shot dead by unidentified[Read More…]
Patna: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday mocked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying the latter had supported demonetisation but was now questioning it, and soon he will describe demonetisation as the biggest scam of India. A day after Nitish Kumar questioned the benefits of the much-hyped demonetisation move to[Read More…]
Patna: A Muslim in Bihar chose humanity over religious customs, broke his Ramadan fast to donate blood to an eight-year-old Hindu thalassemic boy and saved his life. Jawed Alam on Tuesday donated blood to Rajesh Kumar in Gopalganj district, a district health official said. The boy was rushed to the[Read More…]
A bank officer was shot dead on Monday by unidentified criminals in Bihar’s Jahanabad district, police said. Alok Chandra, a probationary officer in the Bank of Baroda in Arwal district, was shot dead near Nehalpur village, said a district police officer. “Chandra was killed when he was on his way to join duty at the bank. He died on the spot,” he added.[Read More…]
New Delhi: Bihar-based Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) on Sunday launched its Halla Bol, Darwaza Khol campaign aimed at advocating the cause of inclusiveness in the Indian judiciary system and creating awareness about the issue. RLSP has always stood by the disadvantaged sections of the society and this campaign is[Read More…]
137 students of Rahmani Program of Excellence were successful this year where more than one million students participated in the JEE.
Ranchi: Convicted RJD chief Lalu Prasad was shifted to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) here on Tuesday after he was discharged from AIIMS in the national capital where he was being treated for heart and kidney related ailments. The former Bihar Chief Minister reached Ranchi by the Rajdhani[Read More…]
Patna: Bihar Industry Minister Jai Kumar Singh on Tuesday demanded the formation of a “Swarn Aayog” (Commission for the Upper Castes) by the Centre to provide reservation to the poor among the upper castes in the country. Jai Kumar Singh, who belongs to the Rajput caste, is a ruling Janata Dal-United[Read More…]
Patna: Senior BJP Leader C.P. Thakur on Tuesday said that the party will contest more seats than its allies in Bihar in the 2019 parliamentary polls. “The Bharatiya Janata Party will contest from the majority of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar in the 2019 polls,” Thakur, also a BJP[Read More…]
Patna: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s General Secretary Maulana Wali Rahmani on Sunday said that Muslim personal laws were under attack since the BJP-led NDA government came to power. Rahmani, while addressing a large gathering of Muslims at a “Deen Bachao Desh Bachao”(Save religion, save country)” rally at Gandhi[Read More…]
Patna: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and Health Minister Mangal Pandey are among the three candidates whose names were announced for the Bihar Legislative Council polls by the ruling BJP on Sunday. Sanjay Paswan, a former Union Minister and Dalit face of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar, is[Read More…]
Patna: Kamla Devi, Pankaj Kumar, Geeta Devi and Sanjay Singh, all Hindus, share one thing in common. Their lives have been transformed through “interest-free” loans provided by a Muslim cooperative credit society in Bihar, yet another example how integrated Indian society has always been at the grassroots level. They are four[Read More…]
