A village in Jharkhand has carved out a niche for itself by showing for over 30 long years that its people do not need to visit the police station to seek help for resolution of their conflicts. The gram sabha (village council) has been doing this job amicably and everyone is satisfied.

Even as Bihar’s Opposition RJD announced its plans to begin statewide agitations to demand a CBI probe into the enrolment of lakhs of fake students in schools, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday dismissed the phenomenon as “not a matter for worry” and said a probe was on.

In what appears to be a mega scam in Bihar’s education department, enrolments of over three lakh out of some 10 lakh students shown to have been admitted in the state’s primary and middle schools have been found to be fake.

The Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll campaigns are likely to be the stage from where the pent-up sparks of the smouldering feud between Nitish Kumar and Narendra Modi could leap out as both the top NDA chi

Trinidad and Tobago prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Wednesday got an emotional homecoming welcome at her forefathers’ ancestral village in Bihar and showered with the traditional love normally shown to a village girl returning home after a long time.

Five passengers of the New Delhi-bound Brahmaputra Mail train were killed and 14 others got injured when a sleeper coach of the train derailed after being hit by a stationary goods train in northern Jharkhand on Wednesday morning. Six railway officials were suspended and a probe was ordered.

Having proudly pushed up Bihar’s annual plan expenditure size to `27,365 crore for the current financial year, the Nitish Kumar-led government has been found lagging in spending the money and has face

In an ambitious plan aiming at almost doubling Bihar’s agricultural output in five years between 2012 and 2017, the Nitish Kumar-led government has unveiled a roadmap to raise and spend `1,52,511 cror

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, with movable assets worth only `6.15 lakhs and a flat in Delhi, may be India’s poorest chief minister who could put neighbouring Jharkhand’s jailed ex-chief minister

Power failure on the New Year’s Day midnight allegedly led to the death of four newborn babies at a major government-run medical college hospital in Bihar, causing angry protests by hundreds of people on Monday and forcing the state government to order a probe.