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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

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi plays a drum during the traditional Assamese Bihu celebrations in Guwahati on Friday. 	— PTI

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.

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