Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda on Wednesday filed his nomination papers for the Assembly bypoll as the common candidate of the ruling alliance, thereby crossing the first big hurdle threatening his continuation in the top post.

Bihar’s ruling JD(U) is now witnessing the beginning of a turmoil whose roots lie in chief minister Nitish Kumar’s recent bold anti-corruption initiatives. The party’s Rajya Sabha member Uprendra Kushwaha, once very close to Mr Kumar, has stirred up a hornet’s nest after being targeted by some leaders.

In an incident of a legislator unbecomingly taking the law into his own hands, an MLA of Jharkhand’s ruling JMM has taken to thrashing several young men brought to his public court with accusations su

Even as the Congress prepares for the organisational polls in Bihar after the party’s decisive rout in the state’s Assembly polls, fresh hostilities have broken out to bedevil one of the most struggling state units of the national party ruling at the Centre.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday handed over the investigations into the sensational murder of BJP legislator Raj Kishore Kesri by a lady teacher to the CBI following a letter to him from

After nine people were brutally killed in two related incidents in Jharkhand’s Gumla district late on Wednesday night, the state’s Opposition parties stepped up their attacks on the Arjun Munda-led coalition government for the alarming statewide rise in violent crime.

Rupam Pathak, the lady school principal who killed Bihar’s ruling BJP legislator Raj Kishore Kesri by a knife attack on Tuesday, has confessed her crime to police officials who interrogated her at the Katihar Medical College. Her father-in-law said she was a self-willed woman not maintaining a good relationship with the family and was often paranoid.

An MLA of Bihar’s ruling BJP was on Tuesday stabbed to death in public by a lady school principal who had levelled charges of rape and sexual exploitation against him last year. The incident shocked the state, prompting chief minister Nitish Kumar to suggest frisking of people visiting MLAs from now on.

Bihar’s much-publicised anti-corruption law, enacted by the Nitish Kumar-led government empowering the state government to seize the properties of public servants accused of corruption even when their cases are under trial, may have met judicial hurdles at the Patna high court.

Yet another young boy abducted for ransom in Bihar was on Monday found to have been killed by his teenage abductors. The five-year-old boy’s murder by strangulation comes a day after the similar murder of a four-year-old amid a spate of abductions.