The CAG’s latest report on Bihar for the year ended March 31, 2010 has given the state’s Opposition parties fresh weapons to be used against the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP alliance government, which is already feeling the heat over an alleged “scam” in industrial land allotments.

The alleged land scam in Bihar involving allotment of prime industrial plots to relatives of ruling NDA politicians and top officials set off fierce political blame games on Wednesday with the Opposition parties MLAs demanding chief minister Nitish Kumar’s resignation and a probe into the land allotments by the CBI.

Bihar’s Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP government was on Tuesday jolted by revelations of an alleged land allocation scam in which the sons, daughters and relatives of ministers, legislators and MPs of the ruling parties and top officials were allotted prime industrial land allegedly in violation of rules.

Echoing the contention of the Congress about Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s sustained campaign to force the Centre to grant the state a special category status, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday described the move as a “drama” aimed at political gains rather than Bihar’s development.

A multilingual man giving his name as Reazul Sarkar and carrying a diary written in Marathi was arrested in Bihar’s Kishanganj district early on Sunday for suspicious movement in the area close to the

With senior RJD leaders quitting the party, its supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav failing to get a central ministerial berth, and discontent among its leaders and supporters on a new high over Mr Yadav naming

Although the police in Bihar are planning to appoint more Special Police Officers (SPOs) to help the security forces fight mainly the Maoists, these temporary appointees would no longer get any arms f

In bolstering the confidence of Bihar’s Muslims, while the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP government has gone too far to turn back, the Forbesganj police firing incident may have indicated that the regime cannot go forward. The death of four poor Muslims looks set to snowball into a credibility crisis between Mr Kumar and Bihar’s Muslims.

While Maoists are known to have threatened and attacked Bihar’s politicians, officials and businessmen, now ordinary criminals and

commoners are increasingly being suspected to be using the Maoists’ name to do the same. A Patna shopkeeper’s arrest has pointed at this growing

trend.

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s increasingly longer spells of absence from his lost political powerhouse and home turf of Bihar ever since the party’s rout in the 2010 Assembly polls haunted Bihar’s RJD leaders and workers on Tuesday as they observed the party’s 15th foundation day in Patna.