A woman in her early 20s who had eloped from Kolkata with her boyfriend was raped and dumped on a roadside in Patna, police said on Thursday.
A Bihar court on Friday dismissed the application of Rupam Pathak for regular bail in connection with a case charging her with stabbing to death BJP MLA of Purnia Raj Kishore Kesari in January this year.
BJP on Friday said it would aggressively campaign for securing special state status for Bihar during the Monsoon session of Parliament.
State Congress president Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser has revoked his order suspending five party leaders for alleged anti-party activities.
While Puducherry lieutenant governor Iqbal Singh is suspected by investigators to have arranged for alleged money launderer Hasan Ali Khan's passport, the man who supposedly picked up the document on Singh's behalf is missing for 14 years.
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The foundation-laying ceremony for the Indian Institute of Technology (Patna) became a sparring scene on Tuesday between Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and union human resources development minister Kapil Sibal on the location and land allotment for two other institutions. Arun Kumar & Ruchir Kumar report
The second round of Bihar's 10-phase panchayat polls today saw 58.8% voter turnout with sporadic incidents of violence and alleged vote rigging attempts, officials said.
Voting for the fourth phase of panchayat polls in Bihar was held on Sunday under the shadow of the gunning down of a candidate late on Saturday night in Vishanpur village in Khagaria district.
An electrical engineer of NTPC was killed and two others injured in a road accident near Athmalgola at Kalyan village in Bihar's Patna district on Sunday, a police officer said.
There has been no breakthrough on securing the release of seven election officials in Bihar, two days after they were abducted by Maoists during the ninth round of panchayat polls, their worried family members said on Tuesday.
In a case similar to that of the Behl sisters of Noida, the Patna police rescued two siblings who had shut themselves up in their home for over 2 years. HT reports.
Voting for the tenth and final round of Bihar panchayat polls began amid tight security on Wednesday morning and was proceeding peacefully, officials said.
Bihar cooperative minister Ramadhar Singh, reportedly declared an absconder by a court, resigned on Thursday.
The Patna high court on Friday asked senior BJP MLA Ramadhar Singh, who had to resign as state cooperative minister, to surrender as he has been declared an absconder by a court in Aurangabad district 16 years ago.
A candidate in the Bihar panchayat polls was allegedly raped and murdered in Patna today, police said.