17 sentenced to life imprisonment in Bihar
17 people were today sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two persons who did not vote for an influential candidate in the panchayat elections here seven years ago.
Woman tries to sell daughters, prevented
Driven by penury, a woman in Bihar's Nawada district attempted to sell her four daughters but was prevented by the district authorities on Wednesday.
Sub-divisional officer Diwan Zaffer Hasan Khan s
Woman pays with life for protesting drinking by boozers
A woman was beaten to death by unidentified boozers after she protested their drinking at her house in Sheikhpura village in Bihar's Nawada district, police said on Saturday.
Some people gathered at
Two schoolgirls killed for resisting molestation bid in Bihar
Two schoolgirls who resisted a molestation attempt were deliberately hit and run over by a jeep leading to their deaths in Bihar's Nawada district on Saturday, police said.
The Class X students board
Nine French tourists rescued from fire
Nine French tourists, who were detained by police and lodged in a circuit house, were safely rescued when a fire broke out in the building within Nagar police station limit in Nawada district on Sunda
Woman burnt alive for dowry
A young woman was burnt alive allegedly by her in-laws for dowry at Bari Gulni in Nawada district, police said on Tuesday.
It is suspected that kerosene was poured on Hema Devi (22) before she was s
Fifty students and a teacher held for cheating in exam
Altogether 50 students and a teacher were on Wednesday arrested for cheating and adopting unfair means during the matriculation examination in Nawada district, official sources said.
Rajesh Kumar was
Two children burnt alive
Two children were burnt alive in their sleep when a fire broke out in a house at Badhi village in Bihar's Nawada district, police said on Saturday.
The two children - eight and six years old were sle
Passenger thrown out of train for opposing robbers
A passenger's legs were severed after he was thrown out of a running train before another speeding train by a band of dacoits near Saras village in Nawada district, police said on Sunday.
Rajendra Ku
Youth murdered and hanged on a tree
Unidentified assailants shot dead a youth and hanged his body on a tree in Chandipur village in Bihar's Nawada district, police said today.
The armed assailants shot dead the youth, identified as Ba