Patna: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has indicated signs of cabinet expansion after the entry of political strategist Prashant Kishor in JDU. After the resignation of social welfare minister Manju Verma, the number of ministers in the Bihar government has remained 28. While 36 ministers can be inducted in the cabinet. Nitish Kumar[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, Reliance JioPhone handset exploded into flames in Bihar’s Kishanganj district on September 15. The woman carrying that phone narrowly escaped the tragedy while her saree caught fire. The company has started a probe into the case. It even offers to replace the phone and bear the[Read More…]
Political strategist and founder of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) Prashant Kishor is joining the Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) in Bihar. Kishor will join the party at the state executive today on Sunday. He has been credited with delivering election victories for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014[Read More…]
Patna, Sep 15 (IANS) Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday questioned Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on his silence over the scams in the state. “U-turn Specialist Nitish Kumar is silent on Srijan Scam, Toilet Scam, Paddy Scam, Scholarship Scam, Dam Scam, MGNREGA Scam, Uterus Scam, Medicine Scam, Recruitment Scam, BPSC[Read More…]
Lalu Prasad Yadav’s eldest son and former Health Minister of Bihar, Tej Pratap Yadav may not be as active and a sharp politician as brother Tejashwi Yadav but is certainly a hope in disguise. The multitasker has been in news for not just for his divergent character but also for[Read More…]
Patna, Sep 14 (IANS) Bihar’s seasoned politician and Lok Sabha member Pappu Yadav says that jailed veteran politician Lalu Prasad has become irrelevant in politics and his main backer, the powerful Yadav youth, are desperately looking for a new face outside the Lalu family to lead them. “The era of Lalu’s[Read More…]
Harinarayan Rishidev, a Mahadalit (most backward community) man from Bihar’s Madhepura district was forced to bury his dead wife inside his house after his neighbours did not allow him to cremate her on their land in the village where there is no community crematorium. Sahogiya Devi, the wife of Harinarayan[Read More…]
In a not so favouring event for Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan, his own family members have announced to stand against Paswan in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Paswan’s son-in-law Anil Sadhu had joined Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal during the last elections in Bihar. Now he[Read More…]
Former Janata Dal-United leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sharad Yadav is likely to tip the scale in the disqualification case that the Delhi High Court is hearing. Yadav had registered a case with the Delhi High Court after he was debarred from JDU for making an announcement of his own[Read More…]
Memoir of criminal records in Bihar is such that it has become a part of the states’ identity for most non-Bihari Indians. Damning cases of how the legal system is played within the state has always managed to make headlines across the country. Not just the people, even the people’s[Read More…]
Bihar state government’s secretariat (Sinchai Bhawan) structure is announced to be sold in an auctioned. A Patna Sub-Judge court has ordered to attach the Sinchai Bhawan building for auctioning and make the payment to the petitioner Mohan Kumar Khandelwal, whose payment was due for the last seven years and it[Read More…]
Ten workers are critical after being electrocuted while working near Barh Railway Station West. It is said that these labours were working to fix the high extension cables when the iron ladder which was being used by them, came in contact with electricity. All of the grievously injured ten workers[Read More…]
Once again a person is beaten to death by the mob over suspicion of being a thief in his home district in Bihar. Rupesh Jha a resident of Singerhiya village of Sitamarhi district was returning from the town after getting his sister treated. In the wee hours, around 4 am[Read More…]
Amid the nationwide shut down called by Congress protesting against rising fuel prices, a shocking incident emerged where, a two-year-old girl died in Bihar’s Jehanabad on Monday allegedly due to the Bharat Bandh. The parents of the deceased claimed that the child died as her ambulance, en route to Bihar’s Jehanabad[Read More…]
The two-year-old, who died in Patna amid the nationwide shutdown, did not get an ambulance first and later his vehicle was stopped at two places which led to the delay. The kid had a high fever since Sunday night. Senior district officers, however, have rejected the parents’ claim and said[Read More…]
In Bihar, Opposition parties took to streets early Monday morning to stage protests in wake of the Bharat Bandh. Over a dozen long route trains were halted at Patna, Gaya, Bhojpur, Jehanabad, Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur railway stations, reported news agency IANS. The shutdown is being supported by the opposition Rashtriya[Read More…]
A trader kidnapped from Madhya Pradesh more than a month ago was on Saturday rescued from Muzaffarpur in Bihar and five persons were arrested from two districts in this connection. In Rohtas district, police also seized Rs 40 lakh in cash hurled from a moving train by the trader’s family members as ransom demanded by the abductors. Senior Superintendent of Police, Muzaffarpur,[Read More…]
At least 50 children fell ill on Saturday after consuming their mid-day meal at a government school in Bihar’s East Champaran district, officials said. According to district officials, some students have found parts of a dead lizard in their meal. Soon after, the children complained of uneasiness, stomach ache, nausea and some also started vomiting. This incident took place at a middle school at[Read More…]
A retired commissioner of Irrigation Department and his wife has been found dead in their house in the Bihar capital. Four people have been detained, police said on Friday. Harender Prasad Singh, 88, and his second wife Sapna Das Gupta, 70, were found murdered late on Thursday in Dujra’s Buddha colony here. Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said an investigation is on. Those detained[Read More…]
The income tax department conducted a raid at Rekha Modi residence in state capital Patna in connection with multi-crore Srijan scam. Rekha is a cousin of Bihar’s deputy chief minister Sushil Modi. The raid was conducted at eight places that include Patna, Purnea, and Bhagalpur. Srijan Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti[Read More…]
A member of parliament from Madhepura constituency Pappu Yadav attacked by supporters of ‘Bharat Bandh’ on Thursday in Muzaffarpur Bihar. Reports suggest that MP is injured in the attack. Pappu Yadav was going to participate in ‘Nari Bachao Padyatra’ in Madhubani district along with his bodyguards. His bodyguards had a[Read More…]
Nivedita Jha has filed a special leave petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court on Wednesday against the blanket ban on reporting of Muzaffarpur shelter home case. Speaking with Newsd she says that “the Patna high court in CWJC No. 12845/2018 vides its order dated 23-08-18 has imposed a blanket media ban on[Read More…]
Patna police arrested a thug identified as Jyoti Ranjan, who bluffed a US engineer girl for lakhs of money. The accused cheated the girl Parul Verma, by trapping her into fake love story where the accused allegedly portrayed himself as the owner of a big company. The accused even tried[Read More…]
Another woman inmate at a shelter home in Patna dies on Friday. Weeks after the women of shelter home died the third inmate’s death came as chilling news. The 27-year-old woman was suffering from mental disability and was taken to Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) after she complained to[Read More…]
RLSP chief and Union Minister of State for HRD Upendra Kushwaha on Friday said that some people in the BJP-led NDA did not want to see Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister again in 2019. Kushwaha refused to reveal the names of such people and said everything will be known at the[Read More…]