In a major political reunion in Bihar, causing as much sensation as during the rift two years ago, chief minister Nitish Kumar has managed to bring back to his side the rebel JD(U) MP and former state

Bihar chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar’s renewed public pronouncement of his unwillingness to become India’s Prime Minister has apparently brought neither relief to his uneasy ally BJP n

As Jharkhand reeled under an avalanche of bandhs organised by over a dozen political parties and outfits with various demands on Wednesday, an obscure group’s warning of acid attacks on women wearing

By getting a ruling BJP legislator elected as the deputy speaker of the Assembly on Tuesday and thereby breaking a 35-year-old tradition, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar apparently hopes to gain three critical political advantages, even though the move has further antagonised the Opposition.

In a shocking repetition of the shame exposed in February, ten students of a centrally sponsored school run exclusively for dalit, tribal and backward caste girls in one of Bihar’s poorest districts were once again found to have been forced into the flesh trade.

In a shocking repetition of the shame exposed in February, ten students of a centrally sponsored school run exclusively for dalit, tribal and backward caste girls in one of Bihar’s poorest districts w

Shortly after they broke ranks on the presidential polls, Jharkhand’s main ruling allies, BJP and JMM, are back into open tussles seemingly emerging from their heightened alliance strains and the competitive vote-bank politics ahead of the upcoming polls.

The thank-you letter written by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for yet another Central gift to the state — assured coal supply for a power plant — is being seen as

While three of the five youth accused of gangraping a Patna schoolgirl and making a porn CD of the incident were arrested and are being produced in a court, another rape accused in Bihar had no such d

Bihar’s ruling JD(U) is facing stiff internal opposition to its emerging plans to induct three Opposition RJD leaders and regional strongmen who quit their party last week.