Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will on Sunday leave for China on a 'goodwill' tour with a high-powered delegation.
The family of Bhudeo Singh, the doctor beaten to death by inmates of a Bihar prison, on Sunday refused to accept the Rs. 10 lakh offered by the state government and asked for compensation on the lines paid to an IAS officer slain in 1994. Vijay Swaroop reports.
At least four people were killed and 11 were missing after a boat carrying 35 people capsized in the Paran river in Bihar's Araria district on Tuesday, police said.
Rift surfaces in the RJD-LJP combine after seven months of the alliance suffering serious drubbing at the hands of ruling NDA in assembly polls in Bihar, with the alliance failing to reach an agreement on supporting the candidate for the Purnia assembly bypoll.
Seven more children have died of a mysterious disease in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district taking the death toll to 20, officials said on Sunday.
With 13 more children dying in north Bihar in the past 24 hours due to a kind of fever whose causes are unknown, the death toll has gone up to 28 in the last one week. The official figure, however, is 22. HT reports.
The mystery fever that has gripped children in Bihar's Muzzafarpur district has been diagnosed as encephalitis even as the virus claimed five more lives, taking the toll to 38 today.
Bihar deputy chief minister SK Modi on Tuesday said that Prime Minister should be brought under the purview of Lokpal but only under some conditions.
A day after news about the abduction of an American university researcher, Juhi Tyagi, by Naxalites in the extremist-affected Jamui district of Bihar flashed in the media, it turned out to be a false alarm. Arun Kumar reports.
A free coaching centre, Super 30, which helps children of labourers, tea stall owners and peons in Bihar reach the prestigious IIT engineering institutes, has impressed people in Japan too, its founder Anand Kumar says.
Nearly 50 armed Maoists killed six people and abducted seven in Bangalwa Kareli village in Bihar's Munger district, police said today.
The NCP, a component of UPA, today said the government has committed a "mistake" by accepting anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare's demands. "Corruption is undoubtedly a burning issue facing the country ... but I differ with Anna Hazare as the way adopted by the Gandhian leader has not been the right way," said NCP leader Tariq Anwar..
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister S K Modi today lent his full support to eminent social worker Anna Hazare and other activists in their ongoing campaign for a comprehensive Lokpal bill for weeding out corruption.
Former MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, facing a life term in CPI-M MLA Ajit Sarkar murder case, broke his fast by drinking lemon water offered by Beur Jail Superintendent O P Gupta, official sources said.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has found 1021 cases of defalcation, misappropriation, loss and theft involving Rs. 407.97 crore pending with various departments of the Bihar government as of March 2010.