JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav on Tuesday met Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and is understood to have discussed the party’s future strategy in view of ally BJP’s revamped posturing as seen in its supposed preparations to project Narendra Modi as the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate.

JD(U) stalwart and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday diplomatically downplayed the three-day fast by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi of the BJP and its larger presumed import within the NDA, disassociating the JD(U) from the event and keeping his cards close to his chest.

Strong tremors of earthquake, centred near Gangtok, were felt across Bihar on Sunday evening and scores of houses collapsed as a result in various districts.

A Jharkhand woman who had claimed that a BJP minister in the state government had married her and fathered her three-year-old son withdrew her claims in a mysterious volte face on Sunday.

Enthused by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s ongoing “harmony fast” in Ahmedabad, leaders of Bihar’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday began a parallel fast and havan in Patna in support o

Bihar’s Nitish Kumar-led government on Thursday faced a barrage of criticism for violent police excesses on women and children from the weaker sections in the chief minister’s home district of Nalanda even as four constables were suspended and a probe was ordered.

When Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar resumed blogging after a gap of 11 months, it was his sheer satisfaction from the fulfilment of a major election promise that brought him back to the blogosphere. His latest blog waxes eloquent on his government’s recent achievements in the campaigns against corruption.

Signs of recession in the rising water levels in the Sone and Ganga brought a slight relief to nine central Bihar districts facing floods on Monday, but hundreds of villages were still surrounded by water and stranded villagers were being evacuated throughout the day.

Two MPs in Jharkhand – one from the ruling BJP and the other from the Opposition JVM – have taken to the public protest route to seek solutions to problems that could have been addressed better by dia

With the submergence of thousands of villages in nine districts in Bihar appearing inevitable due to an alarming rise in the water levels of the Sone and the Ganga, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sund