Days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation, BJP reportedly bought land worth crores in different districts of Bihar. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United has alleged that a series of land purchases made by the BJP in the state for party offices before the Centre’s crack down[Read More…]
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Bihar: Dialysis centre refuses to accept old notes; woman dies in hospital
A woman who was battling kidney failure became a latest victim of demonetisation as she died in a government hospital in Bihar after the hospital staff refused to accept payments in old notes for dialysis on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi while announcing demonetisation of high denomination notes on November[Read More…]
Gaya road rage: Rocky Yadav surrenders
Gaya road-rage accused Rakesh Ranjan alias Rocky Yadav on Saturday surrendered in a Bihar court, police said. “Rocky (Yadav), who arrived in Patna from Delhi on Saturday morning, surrendered in the Gaya Civil Court,” a police officer said. He was arrested on May 11 for fatally shooting 19-year-old Aditya Sachdeva[Read More…]
Complete investigations in three months: SC to CBI on Rajdev Ranjan murder case
The Supreme court on Monday directed the CBI to ensure that its investigations into the murder of Bihar journalist Rajdev Ranjan be completed within three months. A bench comprising justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy made it clear that no accused in the murder case shall seek bail on the[Read More…]
Movie names, Tulsidas and poetry: The real answer sheet of Ruby Rai
In a shocking revelation, the police have said that Bihar school examination topper Ruby Rai wrote names of movies in one answer sheet, the name of poet Tulsidas more than a hundred times in another and poetry in some others, which were then replaced by papers written by ‘experts’. Patna[Read More…]
Meet Patna’s tech-savvy ‘Paytm puchka-wala’
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…]
Patna con artist turns into a woman to run operations
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…]
Tragedy strikes Bihar: Bus carrying 65 falls in a gorge
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…]
Supreme Court to hear Shahabuddin’s bail cancellation plea today
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…]
Appearance of sharpshooter Mohammad Kaif with various ministers draws flack
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…]
We can never give up, our battle against Shahabuddin continues- CPI (ML)
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…]
“Nitish Kumar is a leader of circumstances, my leader is Lalu Yadav,” says Shahabuddin
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…]
Supreme Court to hear plea against Lalu Yadav in fodder scam
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…]
Eight year old repays loan taken by his dead mother
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…]
A whole village in Bihar fined for drinking alcohol!
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…]
Bihar: DM teaches a lesson to principal by sharing food prepared by a Dalit widow
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…]
Ganga Path-Patna’s own version of ‘Marine Drive’
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…]
ADB approves $500 mn loan to help Bihar build India’s longest river bridge
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…]
Bihar: SIT recovers arms from class 12 toppers’ VR college
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…]