With Bihar’s ruling NDA having pitted its claims of good governance against the Opposition parties’ sturdy rebuttals in an Assembly bypoll being held on Sunday, 2.25 lakh voters in a central Bihar constituency are set to decide which side holds promise for them.

Six policemen and two civilians were killed in a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists in Bihar’s Gaya district on Friday noon in an attack said to be the rebels’ retaliation against the vigorous anti-Maoist propaganda exercises run by the police force.

Feeling annoyed by relentless questions and speculation on the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate, Bihar chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar on Monday gave ally BJP a little relief by saying

Feeling annoyed by relentless questions and speculation on the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate, Bihar chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar on Monday gave ally BJP a little relief by saying that he had not set any deadline for the BJP to declare the name.

Bihar’s Super 30 institute founder Anand Kumar, famous for grooming students from underprivileged sections for admission in the IITs, on Sunday said Japan has great opportunities in higher education and research for underprivileged Indian students.

Security around the residences in Jharkhand of JMM supremo and former chief minister Shibu Soren was beefed up on Wednesday after the police learnt that a contract killer was paid Rs 5 crore to kill him.

Poor dalit families in a Bihar village were allegedly forced to starve after the elected panchayat members passed a socio-economic boycott order that snapped their access to foodgrains from the PDS shop and drinking water. The police booked 15 people and began a probe on Tuesday.

A lady schoolteacher in Bihar is suddenly set to enter politics as a candidate of the state’s ruling JD(U) in an Assembly bypoll as the party offered her the ticket after finding her father-in-law, earlier set to be fielded, having a pending criminal charge.

In the face of stiff opposition from an influential section in the JD(U) close to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, party president Sharad Yadav finally managed to get his long-time associate and socialist leader K.C. Tyagi nominated for the Rajya Sabha on Saturday.

Two TTEs were arrested by the GRP in Patna on Saturday and a third one was wanted for allegedly assaulting a Bihar BJP legislator and molesting his wife inside a train in which the couple was travelling from Patna to Kolkata.
The incident, coming a day after a top private company executive was remanded to judicial custody after his arrest for similar misbehaviour with a lady co-passenger in a train, has raised concerns about safety of women passengers in trains running through Bihar.