Bihar as a state keeps an important place historically, culturally and politically. A land which flourished long back in the 5th century, with Nalanda as a centre for excellence, a place where the brilliant mind like Aryabhatta pursued his mathematical and astronomical interests. Even Abul Fazal-i-Allami author of Ain-i-Akbari and[Read More…]
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Dalit man shot dead for dancing at a wedding in Bihar
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…]
Congress likely to back opposition nominee for RS Deputy Chairman
New Delhi: Keen to further augment opposition unity in the run-up to the 2019 general elections, Congress may opt against fielding a candidate for the post of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman and work with other parties outside the NDA to put up a common candidate. Informed sources said the combined[Read More…]
Climate change affecting agriculture in Bihar: Nitish Kumar
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…]
BJP ‘will contest all LS seats it won last time in Bihar’
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…]
Law and order situation shameful in Bihar: Tejashwi
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…]
Woman, daughter gangraped in Bihar’s Gaya district
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…]
Nitish Kumar is face of NDA in Bihar: JD(U)’s message to BJP
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…]
Tejashwi Yadav slams NITI Aayog chief over Bihar remark
Patna: Bihar opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday slammed NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant’s statement blaming the state for India’s backwardness, saying the remark has exposed the mindset of “babus” in the Modi-led government. “Bihar and Bihari’s pay equal taxes, contribute equally or more to governance and nation-building. Bihar gave 33[Read More…]
Beyond religion: Muslim cooperative society helps transform lives of Hindus, others
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…]
Nitish Kumar announces scholarships for madrassa students
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday announced scholarships for students of government-affiliated madrassas. He also pledged to appoint Urdu teachers in all high schools. “Students of government-affiliated madrassas will be provided scholarships,” Nitish Kumar said at a function here to mark Urdu Day. He said the government would strengthen[Read More…]
Five killed in blast in firecracker factory
Patna: At least five people were killed and seven seriously injured in an explosion in an illegal firecracker factory in Bihar’s Nalanda district, police said on Friday. Police officer Sudhir Kumar Porika said the unit was located in Khashganj area and the disaster took place on Thursday night. The injured[Read More…]
Bihar: Mob attacks police station, personnel after custodial death
Patna: A mob protesting against the custodial death of a man attacked a police station, ransacked it, set ablaze a vehicle and also beat up some police personnel in Bihar’s Arwal district on Wednesday, officials said. Soon after the news spread that a 30-year-old man, who was arrested by police on[Read More…]
RLSP, LJP refute speculation about quitting NDA
Patna: BJP allies Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) on Saturday said they will not quit the BJP-led NDA. Amid growing speculation that RLSP chief and Union Minister Upender Kushwaha might follow in the footsteps of the Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and dump the National Democratic Alliance[Read More…]
BJP MP urges review of prohibition in Bihar
Patna: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP R.K. Sinha from Bihar on Monday said prohibition has failed in the state and called for a review of the much-hyped policy, which is currently in effect in the state. The BJP is a ruling ally of Nitish Kumar-led government in the state. Sinha, a[Read More…]
Vehicle that killed 9 children in Bihar belongs to BJP leader
Patna: Opposition RJD on Saturday said the speeding vehicle that killed nine school students in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district belongs to a ruling BJP leader and demanded stern against those responsible for the death of innocent children. According to district police officials, speeding vehicle, a Bolero that hit and killed nine school[Read More…]
Will not invite NDA leaders to HAM functions: Jitan Ram Manjhi
Patna: Striking a discordant note, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) President and former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Wednesday said he will not invite any NDA leader to a party function since he was not extended the same courtesy. Manjhi accused the National Democratic Alliance allies Bharatiya Janata Party, Janata Dal-United,[Read More…]
RJD, Congress finalise seat-sharing arrangement for Bihar bypolls
Patna: Bihar’s opposition RJD and its ally Congress on Thursday announced that they have reached a seat-sharing arrangement for next month’s bypolls to one Lok Sabha and two assembly constituencies. Addressing a press conference here, Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav, flanked by state Congress President Kaukab Quadri, said that it had[Read More…]
Bihar: RJD to field nominees on all three seats
With the Election Commission issuing notification for the three by-elections in Bihar, the ruling party, as well as the Opposition leaders, have started gearing up for the bypolls. The RJD chief Lalu Prasad, who is serving jail sentence in Ranchi, on Friday said that his party would field candidates on[Read More…]
Voting for 3 Lok Sabha seats in UP, Bihar on March 11
New Delhi: By-elections to the Lok Sabha seats of Gorakhpur and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh and Araira in Bihar will be held on March 11, the Election Commission announced on Friday. Polling will also be held in the Jehanabad and Bhabua Assembly constituencies of Bihar the same day. The poll[Read More…]
RJD questions Nitish’s silence over Giriraj Singh
Patna: The RJD on Thursday questioned Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy about their silence on a land-grab case in which Union Minister Giriraj Singh has been named as one of the accused. A day after the case was lodged against Singh in Danapur police station near here, Rashtriya[Read More…]
Property dealer’s abducted son found murdered in Patna
Patna: The 16-year-old son of a property dealer who was kidnapped for ransom on Thursday was found murdered here on Friday, police said. The body of Raunak Kumar, a Class 9 student and son of Sudhir Kumar, was found in a shuttered shop in Kadamkuan locality. His hands were tied with[Read More…]
Former Union minister Raghunath Jha passes away
Former Union minister Raghunath Jha passed away at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi last night. Jha was Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise under former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s government. He was a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and represented Bihar’s Bettiah constituency.[Read More…]
India is unprepared for gathering teen sexual revolution
One in four Indian women are married before 18, and 7.8 per cent of women aged 15 to 19 are pregnant or mothers, according to the latest available 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 data. While the percentage of women married before 18 decreased from 47.4 per cent in 2005-06[Read More…]
Bihar: Train catches fire, four coaches gutted
Four coaches of a passenger train were gutted in a fire in Bihar’s Mokama railway yard on Wednesday, an official said. No one was injured in the incident. The coaches were of a MEMU (Mainline Electric Multiple Unit) passenger train that caught fire around midnight. At the time of the[Read More…]