Just hours before the Maoists’ deadline for releasing the four abducted policemen passed on Wednesday, the Bihar police suspended their combined search and raid operations seeking release of the haple

Preparatory seat-sharing talks between Bihar’s ruling allies, the JD(U) and the BJP, have faced a difficult roadblock thrown up by the delimitation exercise that has changed the socio-political config

Holding four Bihar policemen in captivity for two days since the encounter in Lakhiserai killed seven policemen, the Maoists have demanded withdrawal of security forces from the area and the release o

Congress youth icon and general secretary Rahul Gandhi has chosen north Bihar’s Saharsa region for his proposed September 4 visit to hold public meetings and effectively begin the party’s campaigns fo

Afraid of having his fledgling grip on Bihar’s upper-caste voters loosen, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday hurried to the back foot a day after publicly saying that the state’s upper castes could

Seven Bihar policemen were killed and seven others were critically injured in a fierce encounter with the Maoists in a hilly terrain in the southern district of Lakhiserai on Sunday evening.

Magician, hypnotiser, bad omen, biggest liar... These are some of the more colourful epithets currently being used by RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav to describe his arch rival and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar.

In an open show of double standards, a JD(U) minister in Bihar on Thursday publicly praised a leader whose brutal assault on a youth in July had prompted chief minister Nitish Kumar to suspend him from the party for six years and order his arrest.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav may be known as Bihar’s strongman of yesteryear, a politician whom the state’s ruling JD(U)-BJP alliance and its supporters like to portray as little more than a spent force.

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief and former Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan believes that the presence of the Congress in the fray will make little difference to the outcome of the Assembly polls in Bihar in November. In an interview, he says that Bihar’s “treasury scam” must be investigated by the CBI as top people are involved and the sums in question are “astronomical”.