Patna: Maoists on Saturday blew up a railway track in Bihar to enforce a two-day strike called by them to protest against the killing of their cadres in Jharkhand, railway police said. Ten Maoists were killed in a gun battle with the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a rival splinter group of the Maoists, in Chatra district of Jharkhand on the intervening night of March 27-28, 2013. "Maoists blew up a...
05:12 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Patna: Lok Janshakti Party chief Ramvilas Paswan on Friday ruled out any possibility of a third front ahead or after the next Lok Sabha polls, and instead called out all secular parties to join hands against the BJP. "There is no possibility of a third front before or after next Lok Sabha polls. Different political parties have different views on its formation," Paswan told media persons in Bihar's Darbhanga district...
05:30 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Munger/Patna: Over 450 houses and shops were gutted and four persons injured in separate incident of fire in Bihar's Munger and Patna districts today, officials said. A major fire broke out in Bahadur Nagar and Kutlupur villages in Munger district gutting 350 houses, while four perons, including a woman and two minor girls, sustained burn injuries, the District Magistrate Kuldeep Narayan said. The cause of the fire was not known...
03:40 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday launched a sharp attack at the Congress saying its credibility and integrity has "eroded beyond repair" that could hurt the party's prospects of getting a third term. In an unusual offensive against Congress, Kumar also said his JD(U) was not getting close to it amid speculation in this regard against the backdrop of Centre's decision to revisit the criteria for special status...
02:35 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Gaya: For 18 years his hammers rang across the mountainside. And for 18 years Ramachandra Das ignored his family and worked like a man possessed to build a road through the mountain. Das said, "It was difficult for people to commute earlier so I thought of carving out a road. Movement in 10 villages has become possible now because of this road." Inspired by another resident of Gaya who dug...
08:59 AM, Apr 03, 2013
A woman set on fire a man who had allegedly raped her in Soiya village in Patna district, police said on Tuesday. The woman caught hold of Bhola Thakur allegedly after he had outraged her modesty on Monday night at her home and poured kerosene on him before allegedly setting him on fire with a matchstick, the sources said. ...
10:11 PM, Apr 02, 2013
A college girl was allegedly raped and murdered by unidentified persons in Bihar's Begusarai district, district police said on Monday. The 17 year-old BSc first year student was allegedly raped on Sunday night and later stabbed to death. ...
03:30 AM, Apr 02, 2013
After Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik stepped up the demand for special category status for the state on Monday saying it was a 'genuine right'. "No one can ignore Odisha's demand. It deserves special category status. It is a genuine right," Patnaik said addressing the state-level celebration of its 77th foundation day. ...
02:25 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday took exception to politicians and businessmen running sports organisations saying sports persons who should be at the helm of such affairs. Intervening during the speech of Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Sukhda Pandey in favour of the 'Bihar Sports Association Registration, Affiliation and Regulation Bill, 2013,' in the assembly, he said this system was not good for sports persons and sports. ...
01:15 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Congress on Sunday appointed a young dalit leader Ashok Choudhary, considered close to Rahul Gandhi, as the new PCC chief of Bihar, two and a half years after Mehboob Ali Qaiser resigned from the post following the drubbing in the last assembly elections. Congress President Sonia Gandhi has appointed Ashok Choudhary as president of the Bihar unit of the party, AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said. ...
03:15 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The son of a former Bihar minister was arrested for stealing two sports utility vehicles (SUVs), police said in Ptna on Saturday. Mukesh Sahni, son of Ramashray Sahni - who was animal husbandry minister in the Lalu Prasad government in the 1990s - was arrested in Belari village in Bihar's Samastipur district for the theft of two SUVs. ...
05:35 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Madhya Pradesh has dislodged Bihar from its number one position in terms of highest GDP growth. The provisional data released by the Central Statistical Organisation for the year gone by shows Bihar's growth in per capita income has also been a disappointment when compared to MP. ...
09:41 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has once again raised the pitch for a third front. Speaking at a rally in Etawah on Wednesday, Mulayam said that neither the BJP, nor the Congress can form a government in 2014. ...
05:33 PM, Mar 27, 2013
The Holi this year has brought added joy to the people of Bihar amid heightening excitement and anticipation that the state could be granted special status, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Wednesday. Celebrating Holi at his official residence, Kumar could not hide his joy with the Centre reportedly considering to grant 'backward' status to the state and said: "this Holi appears to be special." ...
05:20 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Odiya and Bihari labourers hired on contract for Goa's mining industry need to be "shunted" out of the state as the mining ban is forcing them towards crime, Congress legislator Vishwajeet Rane alleged on Tuesday. Rane was speaking during the question hour during the Budget Session of the Goa legislative assembly. ...
02:45 PM, Mar 26, 2013
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01:37 PM, Mar 26, 2013
The Janata Dal (United) is following a wait and watch policy after government sources indicated that they are looking at accepting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's demand for a special status for the state. JD(U) leader Shivanand Tiwari said, "We don't know what the government is planning to propose on Bihar. We can comment on it only once we see something on paper. Our alliance with NDA has been smooth....
11:10 AM, Mar 26, 2013
The crisis within the UPA seems to be taking new turns each day. With Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav threatening to withdraw support, the government is now looking for new allies. Its best option is JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who has been demanding special status for Bihar. Sources say the government is also willing to give Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata...
07:47 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Ditched by the DMK and kept guessing by SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Congress is looking further east, towards Bihar and West Bengal, to ensure that the UPA survives till the 2014 general elections. ...
10:42 PM, Mar 25, 2013
On Friday, CNN-IBN and Open Magazine aired an explosive video of CRPF commandos stating that a Bihar Superintendent of Police and his SHO fraudulently claimed gallantry awards for an encounter in which they never took part. Two CRPF commandos, Ramzan and Imtiaz, who braved the bullets to fight the Naxals during the Rohtas encounter in January 2012, said they were sidelined for the awards. ...
10:01 PM, Mar 23, 2013
