A bustling fair in progress in a Bihar village currently is no ordinary, familiar event in the rural calendar.
Attended by large crowds from dozens of villages, the fair is organised by armed Maoists to commemorate their “martyrs” and spread the revolutionary ideology. Yet the Bihar police are blissfully unaware of such activities.

An old man in Bihar in the twilight of his life has donated most of his modest life’s savings to chief minister Nitish Kumar urging him to set up an oldage home. The 80-year-old man, a published novelist, took the decision after getting thoroughly disappointed with what he called his “only child’s insatiable greed”.

The Bihar vigilance bureau has arrested 65 public servants on corruption charges upto mid of December in 2010.

State vigilance bureau superintendent of police Sudhir Kumar said, the bureau sleuths trapped the public servants red-handed accepting bribes upto December 16 since January 2010.

The abduction and murder of a 10-year-old schoolboy in Patna by his adolescent friends spread shock waves across Bihar on Friday amid what seems like a renewed season of abductions in the state a month after the Nitish Kumar government returned to power promising fewer crimes.

Bihar MLA Sunil Pandey of the ruling JD(U) and his brother MLC Hulas Pandey have brought fresh embarrassment for chief minister Nitish Kumar after the two controversial politicians were booked for demanding `1 crore as extortion money from a construction company head.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday faced the embarrassing situation of a senior leader openly asking him to take moral responsibility for the party’s electoral debacle in Bihar and step down. The RJD leadership quickly shot down the demand and sought to downplay its likely impacts.

Keen to rebuild itself after its worst-ever electoral debacle, the RJD on Tuesday set out to analyse the reasons behind its fall from grace in the Bihar Assembly polls and explore ways to reinvent its methods and messages for winning back the masses.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s statement linking rising crime in Delhi with migrants evoked sharp reactions from leaders of both the ruling and Opposition parties in Bihar as well as the state’s intelligentsia on Monday. The controversy also set the stage for a reopening of the politically sensitive issue of migration in Bihar.

At least 500 armed Maoists on Sunday started gathering in Bihar’s southern Munger district close to the site of their violent skirmish with villagers that had led to the death of over 20 rebels in Nov

Acting for the first time on its promise of opening schools on the confiscated properties of corrupt government officials, the Bihar government on Saturday passed orders for work to begin on setting u