Dalit politics in Bihar, the spine of the state’s sprawling identity politics that was brought under a tight leash by the Nitish Kumar government’s innovative measures, has raised its head again following a brutal attack by land-grabbers on dalit families in Patna that killed a woman and injured five people.

At least 16 dead foetuses and underdeveloped infants — 14 of them female — were found dumped in the open in Bihar’s Kishanganj on Sunday, indicating rampant female foeticide and female infanticide taking place in a state where the latest census noted an alarming fall in the sex ratio.

The humble birthplace of iconic British novelist George Orwell in Bihar was saved from turning into an animal farm, but the earliest vestiges of the Englishman’s Indian origin are now locked in a quarrel between an English teacher claiming ownership and a shocked state government.

After legislators in Bihar lost the lucrative local area development (LAD) funds to chief minister Nitish Kumar’s new initiatives to curb corruption, they are happy to get a three-fold rise in their salaries and perks becoming effective from April 1.

Feeling ignored and hurt over the apparent haste in which Bihar’s Nitish Kumar-led government got 12 bills introduced and passed in the state Assembly in just over two hours, the Opposition parties on Wednesday complained to the governor about being deliberately deprived of their democratic right of intervention.

With Bihar’s craze for cricket clashing with darkness in the power-starved state amid growing agitations, the state’s MLAs have made the unprecedented demand for an early adjournment of the ongoing Assembly session and uninterrupted power supply on Wednesday to watch the India-Pakistan semi-final match in the World Cup.

In a bold decision contrary to emerging expectations, the JD(U) on Monday ordered the suspension of four of its rebel MPs in Bihar nearly three weeks after the party’s disciplinary committee recommend

Bihar chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar on Sunday pronounced yet again, this time more forcefully than before, his lack of desire to become Prime Minister.

The struggling Congress in Bihar looks headed for a major split a day after the resignation of influential leader Mahachandra Prasad Singh, who claimed on Sunday that a big group of leaders and “about

The Nitish Kumar government’s insistence on amending two laws governing the functioning of Bihar’s universities has brought the government and governor Devanand Konwar on to a confrontation simmering for a fortnight. Mr Konwar’s disagreement to the proposed changes has drawn criticism from the ruling NDA legislators.