Bihar’s politics almost reached the verge of acquiring communal dimensions on Thursday as the Opposition RJD accused deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi of the BJP of trying to “become another Narendra Modi” with the brutal police firing that killed four poor Muslims in Forbesganj.

The breakdown of all political alliances in Jharkhand displayed in the allies’ competition to win the state’s single vacant Lok Sabha seat of Jamshedpur in an upcoming bypoll reflects an opportunistic abandonment of ideological unity and the resulting confusion among the electorate in the coalition era.

The desperate eagerness of Bihar’s marginalised satraps Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan to get the Congress party’s favours has pushed their two-year-old alliance into danger. Competitive angling for a ministerial berth at the Centre is believed to be at the root of the two parties’ sudden disregard for their alliance.

Rebel leaders of Bihar’s ruling JD(U), including some dissident MPs, on Monday met and resolved to form a new party to be called Bihar Navnirman Manch with the aim of propagating the failures of chief minister and party stalwart Nitish Kumar and emerge as an alternative political force.

A suspected attack of encephalitis is being blamed for the death of 24 children in less than two weeks in Bihar, raising concerns among doctors and health department officials.

Returning from a weeklong tour of China on Sunday, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is facing a tough task of dealing with a host of difficult situations currently embarrassing his government while h

Just over six months after Bihar’s Assembly polls, the alliance between the Opposition parties RJD and the LJP has developed cracks that resulted in the RJD announcing its support to the CPI(M) candidate in the upcoming Purnea Assembly bypoll without taking the LJP into confidence.

Even as the injured victims of the Forbesganj police firing languish at a Patna hospital without proper medical care, hectic politicking continues unabated in Bihar amid communal undertones and growing demands for action against deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi for the brutal crackdown on Muslim villagers.

Three undertrial prisoners of a major jail in Jharkhand died on Sunday in a mysterious incident of food poisoning reportedly after consuming a cold drink, sparking off allegations that they were elimi

In arguably the most shocking evidence of brutality by the Bihar police, revealed on Saturday, a teenager hit by a bullet and lying immobile, but alive, on the ground was kicked repeatedly