About 35 patients have died in Bihar’s medical college-cum-hospitals due lack of medical attention linked to the junior doctors’ strike in the past three days, but the state government took little act

The junior doctors’ strike in Bihar, which crippled medical services in the state’s six medical colleges for the second day on Tuesday, got embroiled in politics after the Opposition RJD came out in s

Bihar became a stricken state on Monday with a state-wide strike of junior doctors and lawyers of lower courts paralysing healthcare and judicial services even as the policemen threatened to begin str

No one in the whole world understands a woman better than her mother.

Despite fears that the Opposition parties’ severely diminished numerical strength in the Bihar Assembly might make the Nitish Kumar-led ruling alliance too arrogant about its functioning and policies,

Yet another young student committed suicide here on Friday, the third student suicide in the city in the past three days, setting off alarm bells among educationists, parents and the state authorities.

The suicide note of Nikki Kumari, a 15-year-old school student who committed suicide in Patna on Friday, was addressed to her brother, said sources. The note read, “You must take good care of our parents. I want them and you to live happily after I am gone.” Police officials conducting investigations at Nikki’s home on Road No.

Thousands of goats in northern Bihar have been drinking rum this winter to battle the bitter cold. Too afraid to lose their goats to the foggy chill in December and early January, many poor families gave the herbivores alcoholic drinks to keep them warm and alive.

Beginning this Republic Day, it will be Bihar’s ministers and not the IAS officers who will hoist the tricolour at government-organised functions at the state’s district headquarters on national days.

Even as the ruling JD(U) and other parties in Bihar observed dalit and socialist icon Karpoori Thakur’s birth anniversary on Monday, a dharna by Rajya Sabha member and senior JD(U) leader Upendra Kushwaha against the state government and his party leadership stuck out like a sore thumb.