The Mahadalits of Bihar, who constitute an overwhelming number among the state's downtrodden, are in a festive mood like never before ahead of India's 65th Independence Day.
Seven Maoists, including two women, were arrested in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district early on Friday -- three days ahead of Independence Day.
Six persons were killed and 18 others injured when a bus carrying them lost control and fell into a ditch near Kuwari village in Bihar's Sitamarhi district, an official said.
Jailed Maoist central committee members are improving their vocabulary and reading books of nationalist leaders between spells of interrogation and other routine functions in prison.
Maoists shot dead two persons in Dabua jungle in Bihar's Banka district, police said on Tuesday.
Maoists shot dead two persons in Dabua jungle in Bihar's Banka district, police said on Tuesday.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday welcomed the BJP Parliamentary Board's decision asking Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to resign immediately.
The Bihar government has failed to utilise the huge funds allocated for the total sanitation programme, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has revealed in its latest report.
Maoists blasted the house of a former village head of Yadunathpur village and torched his brother's house in Rohtas district in Bihar, police said today.
The BJP today slammed the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) for its bid to corner the NDA government on the alleged Bihar Industrial Area Development Act (BIADA) land scam involving influential ministers and bureaucrats and said that a party that had been riled for scams, including fodder scam, during 15 years' rule had no moral right to point accusing fingers at others.
Four persons including a woman died at the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) on Sunday because they could not be supplied with oxygen.
A Sashastra Seema Bal constable allegedly killed a sub-inspector and injured another constable following a dispute over cooking at a SSB camp at Langraduba village in Bihar's Kishanganj district, police said today.
Maoists, who are observing a 24-hour shutdown, blasted a mobile phone tower in Bihar's Saran district early today, police said.
Pandemonium prevailed in the Bihar assembly on Wednesday as the Opposition stalled proceedings over allotment of government land to relatives of some leaders of the ruling alliance and bureaucrats.
Chief minister Nitish Kumar has sought a report from chief secretary Anup Mukherjee on the land allotments of BIADA ( Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority) to cabinet ministers and bureaucrats, following the issue rocking both the houses of state legislature on Tuesday.