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

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.

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

Even as the RJD and the Congress have stepped up their attacks on the BJP on the issue of communalism and “saffron terrorism,” the BJP leadership in Bihar is ignoring such attacks and focusing on how to convert the public goodwill for its coalition government’s development work into votes.

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.

In Bihar’s caste-driven politics, the upper-caste Rajputs are being actively wooed by the state’s major parties in order to ensure their victory in the Assembly polls.
The trend got a quiet boost after Lalu Prasad Yadav got former Janata Dal (United) MP and prominent Rajput leader Prabhunath Singh into the Rashtriya Janata Dal earlier this month.

The race among poll-bound Bihar’s political parties to woo the upper castes in the state has helped a notorious MLA from the ruling JD(U) currently serving a life term for murder to remain the chairman of the Assembly’s Housing Committee for over a year.