Hounded from all sides by an intensified joint operation led by the police and CRPF, the Maoists in Bihar on Tuesday safely released the seven Bihar poll officials they had held hostage for two days soon after triggering a landmine blast that had killed a man and injured an official.

A day after the outlawed CPI (Maoist) members gunned down five people at a wedding ceremony in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, the rival People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) members shot dead four brothers in cold blood in a swift retaliation late on Sunday night.

Stepping up their spree of violence, the Maoists triggered a landmine blast in Bihar that killed a member of a team engaged in the panchayat polls on Sunday and gunned down five people at a wedding ce

Even as the Bihar Vigilance Investigation Bureau finally registered a case against senior Congress leader and former Assembly Speaker Sadanand Singh for alleged irregularities in the recruitment of Assembly Secretariat employees, there is little response from the Congress party in his defence.

India’s only Maoist-turned-MP Kames-hwar Baitha had the bitter experience of the typical violence of the Left-wing rebels when they blew up his ancestral house in Jharkhand’s Palamu district three days after he was released from a jail in Bihar on bail.

The anxiety churning in 19-year-old Mohan Kumar Ram, a dalit student of B.Sc. first year, over the acutely dismal electricity scenario in Saran district is more refined than in Mohammad Roushan, 45, who runs a small tent-house business. But they all feel the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme (RGRES) has drastically failed to deliver in power-starved Bihar.

Upping the ante against the most hallowed centre of the UPA government, the BJP on Saturday accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of “directing the ongoing show” of maligning PAC chairman and BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi with the aim of saving the PMO’s skin in the 2G spectrum scam. After the Congress onslaught against

A teenage girl was on Wednesday beheaded with a sharp weapon by her spurned lover, an engineering student from Jamshedpur, on the campus of Ranchi’s illustrious St Xavier’s College.

Four people were killed and over 20 others injured on Wednesday as the police fired at a rampaging mob protesting against the ongoing anti-encroachment drive in the coal city of Dhanbad in eastern Jharkhand. Curfew was clamped on the city in the evening as the police feared violent retaliations from the people.

After rising to the ruling BJP’s Assembly election manifesto last year, the humble goat in Bihar is now set to enrich the state’s rural economy with its nutritious milk.