A woman from Siwan in Bihar, who had come to Uttarakhand to attend a marriage function, was allegedly raped by his husband's friend in Udham Singh Nagar. ...
10:40 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is being projected by some in BJP as its Prime Ministerial face for 2014 elections, on Sunday asked his party cadres to work hard to present an alternative to the UPA government. ...
01:45 PM, Mar 03, 2013
The Congress party is a commission party, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi made his pitch for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and urged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers to treat the election as a freedom struggle. ...
12:42 PM, Mar 03, 2013
The high population growth rate in Bihar is a matter of concern and if it continues, it will double by 2051 and erode economic growth, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Saturday. "If the population growth rate continues in the years to come, our population will double by 2051 and put insurmountable pressure on infrastructure, resources and land in particular that cannot be stretched to accommodate the growing number of...
05:33 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Bihar's ruling Janata Dal(United) on Thursday retained the Kalyanpur assembly seat, with its candidate Manju Kumari defeating Lok Janshakti Party's Rekha Paswan by over 17,000 votes, an election official said. ...
11:01 AM, Feb 28, 2013
A senior officer of World Bank on Wednesday praised the high growth rate achieved by Bihar which indicates that an "encouraging" environment of progress has been created for faster economic development of the hitherto laggard state. ...
12:29 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Professor RK Sinha of Patna University is popularly known as India's dolphin man. Thanks to him, dolphins have now been declared as the National Aquatic Animal. ...
11:46 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Sonu Nigam, who was at a show at a college in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad city is upset with the organiser of the event. ...
09:25 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Impressed with success of anti-polio campaign in Bihar, a four-member team from Pakistan is in Patna on the invitation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to take tips about the programme particularly in minority Muslim dominated areas. ...
03:40 AM, Feb 25, 2013
A team of the National Investigation Agency is visiting Raxaul in Bihar to interrogate two suspects there in connection with the Hyderabad blasts. The two suspects, one a resident of Hyderabad and the other a Somalian national, had been arrested on Saturday evening from a village in Raxaul on the Indo-Nepal border, by immigration officials. ...
11:30 AM, Feb 24, 2013
The NDA government in Bihar has established rule of law with great difficulty with the help of police and judiciary and it would make all efforts to maintain an environment of peace prevailing in the state, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Saturday. ...
01:39 AM, Feb 24, 2013
A plane carrying Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia could not land for quite some time on Saturday due to a cow herd grazing on the airstrip near Darbhanga and it touched down only after officials stepped in and shooed the cattle away. ...
08:39 PM, Feb 23, 2013
A threat of Hyderabad-like blasts to avenge the hanging of Afzal Guru was posted on the website of Bihar Tourism department after it was attacked by hackers Saturday morning. Bihar Tourism minister Sunil Kumar Pintu said the website www.bihartourism.gov.in remained hacked from morning till 2:30 pm. ...
06:18 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday praised the judiciary for assisting the state government in ushering in the rule of law as a result of which Bihar has attained the highest conviction rate in the country. ...
03:40 AM, Feb 23, 2013
Investigators have developed some leads in the Hyderabad twin blasts case and are working on three specific names that have been under suspicion by the Hyderabad Police. According to sources one of the suspects belongs to Uttar Pradesh, the second is from Bihar and the third is from Jharkhand. ...
04:02 PM, Feb 22, 2013
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Friday inked a pact with Government of India for providing Rs 1,350 crore assistance for a highway project in Bihar which falls under the Buddhist circuit. "JICA here today signed a Japanese ODA loan agreement with the Government of India to provide JPY 22,903 million (about Rs 1,350 crore) for the Bihar National Highway (NH) Improvement Project," JICA said in a statement. ...
02:56 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Cash, investment documents and luxurious cars worth around Rs 100 crore were seized during searches by Bihar police at the premises belonging to four officials, including suspended DIG Alok Kumar, it was claimed in Patna on Thursday. ...
05:37 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Leader of Opposition in Bihar, Abdul Bari Siddiqui, has surrendered his security following Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's claim that law and order situation is good in the state. "When everybody is protected in Bihar, what is the need of security for VIPs?" Siddiqui said in a letter to state police chief Abhyanand on Wednesday. ...
04:53 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Transport and financial services were hit in Bihar on Thursday on the second day of the two-day strike called by central trade unions to protest the central government's economic policies. ...
02:59 PM, Feb 21, 2013
The NHRC on Wednesday sought a report from the Bihar government over the denial of water to Dalits by upper caste people in Kishanganj. ...
04:15 AM, Feb 21, 2013
