Some in the group of about six uniformed police officials that included SP Garima Mallik, who were present at the spot where a Bihar boy hit by a bullet in police firing and lying motionless was kicked repeatedly by a Home Guard jawan, were encouraging the jawan, saying “Maar saale ko (Hit the damned fellow).”

A lingering dispute over land acquisition for an under-construction glucose and starch factory in Bihar’s Araria district between the factory owners and villagers turned violent on Friday. Four protesting villagers were killed and about 10 others were injured in the ensuing firing by the police.

Six months after settling back in power armed with a massive mandate, the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar is now finding itself increasingly under political attacks due to the inappropriate behaviour of some of its ministers and MLAs and taking cautious steps at corrections.

A day-long strike of work by Bihar’s government doctors in protest against the brutal murder of a jail doctor by inmates largely paralysed medical services across the state on Tuesday and forced chief minister Nitish Kumar to order the transfer of two top officials for negligence.

The brutal murder of a jail doctor on duty by convicted prisoners inside a jail in Bihar has prompted the state’s shocked government doctors to call a day-long strike in protest on Tuesday and renewed demands for stringent measures to protect doctors across the state.

Two 22-year-olds have become Bihar’s youngest elected mukhias (village council heads) in the panchayat polls held earlier this month, in which thousands of people below their thirties contested for the first time and many even won, as per the results now coming in. The victories of engineering student Ajay Kumar as the mukhia of

Former Bihar minister Ramadhar Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday surrendered in a lower court in Aurangabad after quietly remaining a proclaimed absconder for 16 years and being forced to resign from the state Cabinet following the revelation last week.

Bihar’s embattled cooperative minister Ramadhar Singh of the BJP, who faces charges of being a proclaimed absconder for 16 years in a chargesheeted case, was out of the state Cabinet on Thursday after governor Devanand Konwar accepted his resignation that came recommended by chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Bihar’s embattled cooperative minister Ramadhar Singh of the BJP, who faces charges of being a proclaimed absconder for 16 years in a chargesheeted case, was out of the state Cabinet on Thursday after governor Devanand Konwar accepted his resignation that came recommended by chief minister Nitish Kumar.

With Bihar’s cooperatives minister Ramanand Singh of the BJP battling charges of being an absconder from the courts for the past 16 years, the main Opposition party RJD’s growing clamour has turned the issue politically embarrassing for the Nitish Kumar government.