In a Taliban-style act of moral policing, the Maoists in Bihar forced a dance show to stop midway because they thought the girls dancing on stage were scantily dressed and that their gestures to the tunes of film songs were vulgar.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday expressed happiness over the Planning Commission's decision of approving the plan size of Rs 24,000 crore for Bihar even as he insisted on his demand for special assistance of Rs 4,100 crore per annum during the next plan period.

After his miserable failure in Bihar’s political arena, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son and budding cricketer Tejaswi Yadav got a much-needed chance to begin his new innings in the stadium when he was secured by a team for the first Jharkhand Premier League (JPL) tournament in an auction.

Despite the Planning Commission’s stated unwillingness to raise Bihar’s annual plan size for the next fiscal (2011-12) than the current fiscal, the Nitish Kumar-led government is adamant on keeping it

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s tacit acknowledgement of long-standing rumours about corrupt bureaucrats investing in real estate in the state and thereby contributing to the spiralling of land pr

The Assembly bypoll in Jharkhand’s Kharsawan constituency with BJP chief minister Arjun Munda as the star candidate passed off peacefully with an astounding 73 per cent voting and no violent incident on Thursday. Both the ruling BJP-JMM and the Opposition JVM-Congress alliances claimed victory will be theirs.

A ruling JD(U) legislator in Bihar notorious for often being on the wrong side of the law is facing allegations of getting a man killed and then harassing his widow to capture her house. A shocked chief minister Nitish Kumar has promised her help, but more ruling party politicians are being spotted on the wrong foot.

In the Assembly bypoll in Jharkhand that would decide if chief minister Arjun Munda of the BJP gets to continue in the top post, the real battle is not between the ruling BJP-led coalition and the Opposition parties. The bypoll, slated for Thursday, has shaped largely as a battle between Mr Munda and JVM chief Babulal Marandi. With

Voices of dissent within Bihar’s ruling JD(U) are becoming more nagging and numerous since the party went ahead with its agenda of taking disciplinary action against several senior leaders accused of engaging in anti-party activities during last year’s Assembly polls.

The BJP on Saturday displayed its firm ambitions of winning power at the Centre in the 2014 general elections by getting together its top echelon of leaders at a massive rally in Bihar, where the coun