After Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, it was Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s turn to clarify that he did not “harbour ambitions of becoming the prime minister”. HT reports.
BJP has not officially declared anyone as its prime ministerial candidate for the next Lok Sabha polls and JD(U) being a key NDA partner would officially be informed of any decision on the issue, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said.
Two days after the police lathicharge in Nalanda, Bihar government on Saturday removed the station house officer and five other police officials, besides 14 constables and 10 home guards posted in Noorsarai police station in the district.
Senior Maoist leader Purnendu Shekhar Mukherjee, currently lodged in Bhagalpur jail, has offered to donate his body for medical research.
A day after policemen brutally attacked women and children at Noorsarai police station in Nalanda district, the Bihar State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) registered a case in connection with the incident and chief minister Nitish Kumar ordered a probe.
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With three more children dying, encephalitis is now suspected to have claimed 19 young lives in Bihar, an official said today even as the state is running short of kits to diagnose the disease.
Union home minister P Chidambram should share further information about "home grown terror modules" and their involvement in terror strikes, CPI general secretary A B Bardhan said today.
In a novel move to discourage corruption, the house of the suspended IAS officer of the Bihar cadre, which was confiscated by the state government on Sunday, will be converted into a school. Anil Kumar reports.
Maoists torched a road construction machine (JCB machine) at Kartaul village in Bihar's Begusarai district on Tuesday, police sources said.
Nine children have died of suspected encephalitis, an acute brain infection, in Bihar’s Gaya district during the last two weeks, a health official said on Tuesday.
After confiscating the house of suspended IAS officer Shiv Shankar Verma, the Patna district administration acquired 4.5 kathas (301.5 sq m) of his land in Alipur village on Monday.
A Bihar court today fixed Sep 21 as the date for framing charges against former chief ministers Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra, among the 11 accused in a case related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 47 lakh from the treasury to purchase fodder for public distribution.
Ten children drowned on Sunday in Rohtas, Siwan, Banka and Jehanabad districts of Bihar.
In a rerun of khap panchayat's medieval justice, a couple of Mahua village in East Champaran district had their heads tonsured after the elders declared their relationship as illicit.