Bihar Assembly on Tuesday saw bedlam with RJD members demanding resignation of two BJP ministers for allegedly calling them 'Pakistani agents' after they protested against school students being made to do the 'surya namakar' yoga asana. RJD members started shouting that the two ministers called them 'Pakistani agents' during Governor Devanand Konwar's address to the joint session of the state legislature on Monday and claimed that RSS agenda was being...
10:07 PM, Feb 19, 2013
The Bihar assembly's month-long budget session began in Patna on Monday on a stormy note as the opposition parties attacked the government over its liquor policy, poor law and order situation, and rampant corruption in the state. ...
10:15 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Bihar Governor Devanand Konwar was heckled by a Congress woman lawmaker on Monday during his address to joint session of state legislature over alleged corruption in appointment of Vice-Chancellors prompting him to admonish her. ...
04:57 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Bihar's farmers have done it again. A farmer from Sohdih village of Bihar's Nalanda district has set a new world record in potato production through organic farming this year. The potato farmer, Rakesh Kumar, has harvested 108.8 tonnes of potato per hecrtare and set a new world record in potato production, Nalanda district magistrate Sanjay Kumar Agrawal said on February 18. ...
03:45 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The people of Bihar have pinned their hopes on Union Finance minister P Chidambaram for consideration of their demand for special status, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Friday. Kumar said that the Union minister was recently quoted as saying that the Centre would explore what it could do to help the states lagging behind the average national development ratio. ...
07:08 PM, Feb 15, 2013
With a towering height of 70 feet, the world's tallest statute of Mahatma Gandhi was on Friday unveiled in Bihar. Bapu is seen standing affectionately with two children on either side in the bronze statue constructed at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna. ...
06:01 PM, Feb 15, 2013
A Dalit woman was set on fire when she opposed her molestation by a known anti-social of the area in Bettiah district, Bihar. The accused doused the woman with kerosene when she resisted their attempts to molest her and then set her on fire. ...
02:21 PM, Feb 15, 2013
The UPA government went into damage control on Thursday over the AgustaWestland chopper deal, issuing a detailed factsheet on the AgustaWestland deal, putting the blame on the NDA. The Congress has alleged that in 2003, the then National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra wrote to the then defence secretary that the existing rules were unfair as it allowed only single bidding and that the qualifying height of the choppers should be...
07:49 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Janata Dal (United) Chief Sharad Yadav on Wednesday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to contemplate returning body of Afzal Guru to his family members. Guru was convicted in the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament and was hanged on February 9. ...
01:35 PM, Feb 13, 2013
A young girl's nose was chopped off by her jilted lover, who also made an unsuccessful attempt to rape her in Bihar's Kishanganj district, police said on Tuesday. ...
06:39 PM, Feb 12, 2013
After three of its girls went missing, a village in Bihar's Siwan district has barred girls from using mobile phones and wearing jeans and T-shirts, an official said on February 11. The villagers also imposed heavy fines on girls if they violated the diktat. ...
03:08 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said he was "pained" by leaders of his Janata Dal-United (JD-U) putting his name as a prime ministerial candidate, and termed such people "not my well-wishers". ...
04:41 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajpaksa, accompanied by his wife Shiranthi Rajpaksa and a 70-member delegation, on Friday arrived at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya for pilgrimage. ...
02:26 PM, Feb 08, 2013
The national capital has the highest number of security personnel on VIP-guarding duties in the country after Punjab. More than a dozen policemen guard each of the 427 VIPs, who are being given security in Delhi, according to the "Data on Police Organisations in India-2012". ...
01:05 AM, Feb 08, 2013
A murder convict has not just reformed himself, but is also helping build a secure future for many poor children in Bihar. Out of jail after 14 years, Dipak Kumar runs a school and teaches more than 300 poor children almost free of charge. ...
08:56 AM, Feb 07, 2013
Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday said it was not possible to grant Bihar the status of a special category state but its special package can be improved. ...
02:20 AM, Feb 05, 2013
Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, talks to CNN-IBN after her return from Bihar and UP, where the foundation works extensively for women and child development. ...
02:11 PM, Feb 03, 2013
A rapist at Katihar has been sentenced to death within four days of being produced before a fast-track court. The accused had been charged with raping his 3-year-old niece. He had also allegedly strangled her to death. ...
08:15 AM, Feb 03, 2013
A fast track court in Bihar sentenced a rape accused on Saturday within four days of the accused being produced before it. The accused had been charged with raping his three-year-old niece and he had allegedly threatened to kill her if she told anyone. ...
11:00 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Anti-graft activist Anna Hazare, who launched his Janatantra Morcha in Patna on Wednesday, sought to recreate the aura of legendary socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan and conducted himself in a manner to remind one and all about the leader who had launched the first movement against corruption in the country about three decades ago. ...
11:02 PM, Jan 30, 2013
