Bihar’s ruling JD(U) on Tuesday pushed itself closer to a showdown after a disciplinary committee recommended severe action against 11 MPs among nearly 200 other leaders for their alleged anti-party activities during 2010 Assembly polls.

The Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP alliance government in Bihar completed 100 days of its second term on Sunday brimming with satisfaction, confidence and ambition.

Nearly a year after the mysterious death of young Business Standard journalist Nirupama Pathak in her Jharkhand home, a local court on Saturday issued arrest warrants against her Delhi-based journalis

Bomb blasts by suspected criminals at a major hospital in Patna on Friday injured two hospital employees, spreading fresh fear in the Bihar capital just four days after blasts injured four children in

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s crude outbursts against Baba Ramdev for his ongoing campaign against corruption and his desire to join politics have prompted Bihar’s BJP leaders to call Mr Yadav an “inc

A government engineer in Bihar found it safer to hide himself away — unknown even to his own family and strengthening their fear about his abduction — for three days after being harassed by unscrupulous contractors and criminals pressurising him to pass fake bills for work in the PMGSY road schemes.

Facing the Opposition’s heightened attacks for the absence of industries in Bihar, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday accused the Centre of preventing investments worth over `1 lakh crores lined up for the state from taking shape on the ground.

Claims of Bihar’s marching growth asserted by the state’s workaholic chief minister Nitish Kumar have failed to convince his arch rival Lalu Prasad Yadav, who on Sunday said Kumar’s promises of making Bihar a developed state by 2015 might remain a dream only.

While Bihar’s economic growth rate for 2010-11 was on Wednesday projected to be at an impressive high of 10.05 per cent quite like the previous fiscal, the agriculture sector’s contribution to the state’s galloping GDP fell behind, sowing the seeds for fresh concerns and debates.

For Bihar’s ruling JD(U), taking long-pending disciplinary action against some rebel leaders has turned into a big headache because the inability to do so has started being seen as chief minister Niti