Delhi High Court granted bail to former chief minister and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad’s wife, Rabri Devi and her son and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam case. The court granted bail on a personal bond and surety amount of Rs 1[Read More…]
Seat-sharing formula for the 2019 general elections has been finalised by the NDA constituents in Bihar, with the BJP getting the lion’s share of 20 out of the 40 Lok Sabha seats and the rest going to its allies including the JD-U, LJP and the RLSP, party leaders said on[Read More…]
Patna: There was a lot of talk about Lalu Prasad Yadav and his love for cows in Bihar’s politics. The stories of cows and cattle were narrated by Lalu often. On Wednesday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar also narrated stories related to cow while describing himself as a cow lover. Nitish Kumar said[Read More…]
Following a viral video from Bihar’s Saharsa district showing a school girl being molested by a group on men in the middle of the road, police have arrested one of the accused. “A case has been filed and the victim from the video has been identified. A probe is underway,”[Read More…]
Seeing the increasing crimes especially the crimes against women in Bihar, the Congress party has launched a special security mobile app named after late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. This is a Bihar-specific app for women in Bihar to be used at the time of distress. On an addition, the party[Read More…]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today submitted a progress report on the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case to the Patna High Court. During a hearing on the shelter home rape case, the Patna High court has asked the CBI for further more documents related to the case including detailed[Read More…]
Ara: Political murder has been on the rise in Bihar. The latest case is in Nadhi village of Sahar police station area of Bhojpur district. Unidentified criminals shot CPI (ML) leader Ramakant Ram, died on the spot. Police reached the spot. However, the reasons for the murder have not yet been ascertained. After the incident,[Read More…]
Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, who had undergone neuro and cardio treatment, has been discharged from Mumbai’s Asian Heart Institute on Saturday, August 25. The RJD supremo has been asked to surrender himself by August 30 after the Jharkhand High Court on Friday rejected his request for 3[Read More…]
Police statistics among the recent horrific criminal incidents that took place against women recently in Bihar showed that after the formation of the government with Nitish Kumar ‘s re-election last year, 20% of the total criminal incidents in the state There has been an increase of 23% in the incidents of rape. These figures are[Read More…]
A fresh case of mob lynching has come to light in Bihar’s Vaishali district. Where the mob killed a young man by beating him with sticks on Wednesday. Deceased is being said to be a resident of Gumla, Jharkhand. At present, the police has recovered the body and sent it for the post-mortem,[Read More…]
Former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav attacked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the transfer orders that, along with many officials, include the name of Devendra Singh and Superintendent of Polic – JP Mishra, who were slated to submit a report on the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case the[Read More…]
A day after a woman was thrashed and paraded naked by a mob in Bihar’s Bihiya town in Bhojpur district, the police arrested 15 suspects, but denied that it was a case of mob lynching. S.K. Singhal, Additional Director General (police headquarters), said 15 persons have been arrested on the basis of video footage of[Read More…]
Reports of a woman being paraded naked in a Bihar town prompted Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday to allege the state has been transformed into a ‘jungle and monster raj’. A mob attacked, stripped and paraded a woman naked in a locality in Bhojpur district on Monday[Read More…]
“If our cattle somehow enter agricultural fields of upper castes we are verbally abused, beaten up and forced to pay a certain amount as fine,” says, Ram Rati Devi, a daily wage landless labour of Saandhadumber Musahartoli, in Sandhadumber village of Motipur in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. Musahartoli is the[Read More…]
Patna: Unidentified criminals shot dead a boy at Sultanpur village under Danapur police station in the state capital Patna. Police said here that 17 year old Mohammad Farooque, son of Salahuddin was shot dead when he and his elder brother Haider Ansari were sleeping together in their house. At the moment,[Read More…]
Opposition RJD and Congress on Saturday demanded the resignation of another Bihar minister over his alleged involvement in the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape cases. Without naming the minister, leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday demanded Chief Minister Nitish Kumar sack the minister, a BJP MLA from Muzaffarpur. Yadav held out threat[Read More…]
“Because Modi is a model, he is a hero,” said the newly appointed Chief Justice of Patna High Court, Mukesh Rasik Bhai Shah on being asked why he is being linked with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah. “Because Modi is a model. He is[Read More…]
Sanjay Kumar, a Sociology Professor at the Mahatma Gandhi Central University, was attacked by the mob on Friday for writing a controversial Facebook post commenting on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s death. Sanjay has suffered critical injuries in the assault and has been referred to Patna Medical College and[Read More…]
The Central Bureau of Investigation raided 12 places in Bihar on Friday, 17 August as part of investigation into the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. Five different residences of former Bihar minister Manju Verma were searched. Her three houses in Patna, one in Motihari and one in Begusarai were hunted[Read More…]
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Patna has been arrested for alleged sexual exploitation of the secretary of an NGO run by him, police said on Wednesday. Baban Yadav was arrested late on Tuesday following an FIR lodged by the secretary of Buddha Society Seva Foundation, an NGO which[Read More…]
Raising a serious concern over the law and order situation in Bihar Under Secretary of Planning department Rajiv Kumar shot in the state capital on Tuesday morning. He was shot by criminals at his residence. After being gunned down, he was rushed to a hospital in Patna where he was[Read More…]
Patna: Police in Bihar said on Sunday that two women from a shelter home died at a hospital here. A 40-year-old woman and an 18-year-old girl from the Asra shelter home here died on Friday night in the Patna Medical College and Hospital. Neither the police nor the Social Welfare Department were informed of the incident. A police[Read More…]
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has come up with a fresh attack on the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over ongoing Muzaffarpur shelter home controversy. Asking CM Kumar to resign Tejashwi has alleged that he is unable to run a state and claimed that it will be proved that he is[Read More…]
Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad Yadav got an extended provisional bail till August 20 on the health grounds on Friday. Lalu Yadav had come out on a parol on May 10, for three days to attend his son Tej Pratap Yadav’s wedding ceremony. After wedding senior advocate Abhishek Manu[Read More…]
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved the construction of the 6.93 km-long four-lane bridge at Phulaut in Bihar that would cut down the distance between Phulaut to Bihpur from 72 km to 12 km. “The CCEA, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the project for construction of 6.930 km-long four-lane bridge at Phulaut in Bihar,” Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told the media[Read More…]