Maoists dole out attack CDs
In a disturbing method of propaganda and recruitment drive, the Maoists in parts of Jharkhand have started distributing the video CDs of their bloody attacks on security forces among villagers unhappy with the government and the security forces.
Spurious liquor kills 12 in Bihar
Consumption of illegally fermented and spurious liquor is believed to have caused the death of 12 people in a Bihar village early on Friday morning, though authorities are yet to confirm either the ex
Lalu boasts of ‘Pak popularity’
The race between Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and his arch rival Lalu Prasad Yadav for greater public support within the state openly encompassed the unlikely territory of Pakistan on Sunday afte
War of words over Bihar high growth
Bihar’s latest high economic growth figures cited by the Planning Commission brought cheers to the state’s Nitish Kumar-led NDA government on Thursday, but it sparked off a fresh war of words as the O
Bihar initiates probe into `6K cr scam
Rattled by an NGO’s survey claiming to have found that funds as high as nearly `6,000 crore were swindled in MNREGS in Bihar in the past six years, the state government has initiated a probe into the
RJD equates Bihar CM to Idi Amin
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of today’s top 100 global thinkers, was on Tuesday likened by the state Opposition party Rashtriya Janata Dal to the likes of
‘Bihar can end India’s wobbly growth’
India’s economic growth keeps fluctuating lately because it is based only on a few developed states as the Centre keeps neglecting the immense growth potentials in states like Bihar, argued chief mini
Nitish report card has Bihar shining
Beaming with satisfaction and optimism, Bihar chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar on Saturday presented a “report card” for his government’s seventh year in power, asserting that his “devel
Jharkhand coal firm offers dialogue with agitators
Former Jharkhand chief minister and JVM chief Babulal Marandi, who had been heading a weeklong agitation of thousands of tribal people against a coalmining company in Pakur, on Thursday signalled the
Bihar tribals agitated after landowners kill 3
Tribals in Bihar, a tiny minority population that many believe did not exist after Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar, are suddenly in the news after three landless tribals were shot dead by non-tribal landowners in the eastern Purnea district three days ago.