The new Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh has been a prominent journalist apart from being a politician. An inhabitant of a village called Sitab Diara in Saran district of Bihar, Harivansh Singh becomes the first non Congress deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha in 41 years. Earlier Godey Murahari[Read More…]
In a major development to Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case, Bihar Social Welfare Minister Manju Verma resigned from her post. According to the police, call records proves that her husband Chandrashekhar Verma was in touch with Brijesh Thakur on a regular basis. The police confirmed there are seventeen calls exchanged[Read More…]
Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed Bihar government over the Muzaffarpur Shelter Home rape case, stating that “It seems these activities are state sponsored”. Amid the many controversies and hearings over the rape incidents of minor girls in Bihar, Supreme Court asked why the credential of the institution running it weren’t[Read More…]
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held a press conference this Monday morning over the highlighted Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case rage by the opposition. He said, I am not concerned about my image, I work with utmost commitment. Criticising the incident he said, It is a shameful incident. It has[Read More…]
Patna: Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister C.P. Thakur on Sunday demanded the resignation of Bihar Social Welfare Minister Manju Verma in connection with the rape of 34 minor girls at a shelter home in Muzaffarpur district. Manju Verma should resign taking moral responsibility for what happened in the[Read More…]
Patna: The Bihar government has suspended six officials of a state child protection unit in the wake of the Opposition’s demand to take stringent actions against the rape of 34 minor girls at a shelter home in Muzaffarpur district, authorities said on Sunday. The state’s Social Welfare Department suspended the[Read More…]
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav held a candle march today on Saturday evening at Jantar-Mantar in Delhi to protest against Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. There he was accompanied by Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, CPI leader D Raja, CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury,[Read More…]
Meenakshi Lekhi was trolled by twitterati on Saturday after her comments over Rahul Gandhi joining the candle march led by Tejashwi Yadav at Jantar-Mantar in protest to the highlighted rape case of Muzaffarpur shelter home. Adding further disgrace to the BJP and NDA Meenakshi Lekhi said, “Jaaton ke gaon mein[Read More…]
Bihar leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav has taken the protest to the roads of Delhi. He has called everyone to join him and RJD at Jantar Mantar in the protest. He tweeted today morning, “Come Delhi, join us today at Jantar-Mantar in evening for dignity and safety of Bharat Mata’s[Read More…]
Bihar Social Minister Manju Sharma had an encounter with media while she was leaving after the inauguration ceremony of ‘Kanya Utthan Yojana’ (Girls upliftment project). There she was asked by the media about the delay in the investigation into the rape cases of Muzaffarpur shelter home and about oppositions demand[Read More…]
JDU legislator, Bima Bharti’s teenages son, Deepak, was found dead on a railway track in Patna Friday morning. Though the minister’s family suspects murder, the police said they would wait for post-mortem report to go ahead with next course of their investigation. Friends of Deepak, with whom he used to[Read More…]
It is both sorrowful and disturbing to see Bihar government trying hard to safeguard the prime culprits of Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. According to Bihar’s Opposition leader and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, The shelter homeowner Brijesh Thakur is a close ally to Social Welfare Minister Manju Verma and the[Read More…]
Taking suo motu cognizance of Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case, the Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Bihar government and the Ministry of Women and Child Development and has asked to keep the identity of the rape survivors confidential. Putting a ban on releasing or publishing the victims’[Read More…]
The victims of heinous crime in Muzaffarpur shelter home are found to be vulnerable. They are said to be traumatised and few of them even tried to commit suicide. Because of severe physical and mental sufferings, they are not completely in their senses and tried to hurt them physically. Bihar[Read More…]
A shutdown called by the Left parties, Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Bihar on Thursday against the recent rape of 34 minor girls at a shelter home in Muzaffarpur district, seeks justice, demands the resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Other than CM Nitish Kumar’s resignation, the Bandh[Read More…]
As CBI investigates the Muzaffarpur shelter home case more instances of crime are duged up. The owner of the government-funded NGO, Brijesh Thakur has been the main accused in the shelter home case. Two separate cases have been registered against him so far. The second case was filed only after[Read More…]
It has been a week since the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case came into light and few days since Central Bureau of Investigation took over the case. The investigation into the matter is on and yet another shocking and saddening case has been discovered. Earlier the CBI had registered a[Read More…]
RJD leader Lalu Prasad’s youngest son, Tej Pratap dresses up as Lord Shiva, sets out for Deoghar to offer prayers on the occasion of ‘Sawan’. Before leaving for Deoghar he was seen with a shell in a Shiva temple. It was his costume that stole away the show. Tej chose[Read More…]
A video of a BJP MLC has floated on social media and has been tweeted by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav from his twitter handle where the MLC is openly threatening Bihar’s governor. In the video, he is clearly heard saying, “Rajyapalnama kaa hain, ki jo keh denge wo ho jayega.[Read More…]
A city court on Monday issued summons to former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi, son Tejashwi Yadav and others in connection with the 2006 IRCTC hotels maintenance contract case. The case relates to alleged irregularities in the allotment of contracts of two IRCTC hotels in Ranchi and[Read More…]
Bihar leader of the opposition and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav came in support of Super30’s Anand Kumar today. He tweeted in his support and said that there is a well-hatched conspiracy by few by few highly self-centric, narrow-minded, incompetent and failed competitors who are trying to sabotage hard earned reputation[Read More…]
Patna: A large of part of a road in Patna caved in on Sunday following heavy rains that pounded the state capital round the clock, officials said. The Bailey road, considered the life line of Patna, caved in due to heavy rains continuing since Saturday. Several areas are water-logged, a[Read More…]
National Women Commission member visits the Muzaffarpur shelter home but she was not allowed to go inside and talk to people. Ranjit Ranjan has raised this issue in Parliament also. There are total 15 institutions that are run by the government but the FIR of only one institution was registered.[Read More…]
Patna: A Bihar court on Saturday awarded life imprisonment to 14 persons and 10 years in jail to one person in the 2012 hooch tragedy reported in Ara in Bhojpur district, a government lawyer said. Ara Additional District and Sessions Judge R.C. Diwedi on Tuesday pronounced all 15 accused guilty.[Read More…]
After repeated insistence by RJD and Congress MLAs for CBI probe into Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case, finally, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has ordered a CBI probe into the matter. Earlier, Nitish Kumar and Sushil Modi had shown their reluctance over any Central Bureau of Investigation in the mass gang[Read More…]