Two barbaric assaults on a woman and a child in Bihar and the callousness shown by police this week have freshly called into question the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government’s claims of rule of law in the

A day after BJP-backed Opposition presidential candidate P.A.

Bihar’s politics seems to be heading for a khadi-ripping clash inside the wrestling ring.

Betraying another sign of the widening rifts between Bihar’s ruling allies Janata Dal (United) and Bharatiya Janata Party, chief minister Nitish Kumar of the JD(U) said on Monday that leaders of his p

After Bihar became India’s first state to accord 50 per cent reservation for women in panchayats in 2006, the state’s multi-dialect lexicon got ubiquitous neologism “mukhia-pati” — husband of the elec

In an uncommon red-to-green story, Bihar’s lethal ‘kattas’ (illegal countrymade handguns) that have been felling numerous lives and maiming as many for decades, are now turning into “kudals” and “khur

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday gave more blues to his saffron ally by inducting senior BJP leader and former MLC Sanjay Jha into the JD(U) in a political move seen by many BJP leaders as

After RSS mouthpiece Organiser criticised his views about “secular prime ministerial candidate” as “Muslim-centric thinking,” Bihar chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar on Monday made it cle

Even as Bihar chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar’s dismaying support to the UPA’s presidential candidate in defiance of ally BJP’s choice now seems to have paid off some dividends, many in

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s efforts to secure and widen his party JD(U)’s base among both the state’s upper castes and the dalits has put him in a catch-22 situation after the sudden assertive