Mumbai signals a Bihar bane for Nitish
Bihar chief minister and JD(U) strongman Nitish Kumar’s triumphalism about spreading Bihar’s glory far and wide faced uneasy political obstacles on Saturday as both his ruling ally BJP and the Opposit
Nitish ‘patches up’ with Raj Thackeray
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s embattled plans to woo Mumbai’s Bihar-origin population in a celebration of Bihar Divas there became smoother on Friday after a telephonic talk between him and MNS
Cop fires at engineer over disagreement
While Bihar’s Nitish Kumar-led government counts public safety as its top priority, some of its embarrassments have sprung, ironically, from the recent action of police officials with a penchant for t
Nitish, Raj soften Bihar Day stand
Bihar chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar’s embattled plans to woo Mumbai’s Bihar-origin population in a celebration of Bihar Divas there became smoother on Friday after a telephonic talk b
6 Maoists, 1 cop killed in clash
Six Maoists and a policeman were killed and another policeman was badly injured in a fierce encounter in a forest in Jharkhand’s Latehar district on Thursday, the police said.
Bihar govt finds CAG ‘errors’
Embarrassed by the CAG report but not dispirited, the Bihar government has punched holes in parts of the watchdog’s findings, pointing at its “errors” like DC bills already submitted having not been s
Opp. demands CBI inquiry
The Bihar government’s worsening fiscal management apparent in the massive AC-DC bill mismatch of `22,575.37 crore and possible irregularities worth `409.15 crore as exposed in the latest CAG report o
‘Special status for Bihar not needed’
In a poke at the political hot potato of Bihar’s strong demand for special category status for the state, adviser to the Prime Minister on pubic information infrastructure and innovations Sam Pitroda
Reddy appointed as new CPI chief
Communist Party of India (CPI) veteran and former two-term MP from Andhra Pradesh Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, 70, was on Saturday named the party’s new general secretary, replacing A.B.
Villagers lynch Bihar youth, father held
In a gory display of primitive justice, dozens of people in a Bihar village on Friday beat a dalit teenager to death in presence of policemen.