After getting assurances from the Railways that two ongoing railway projects in Bihar were not being shelved, the Bihar government has submitted its wishlist for the upcoming Railway Budget for 2011-12 and sought enough funds for completion of all ongoing rail projects in the state.

Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda’s victory on Thursday in the Kharsawan Assembly bypoll gave the state’s ruling BJP-JMM alliance a major boost and promised political stability for the time being, but the tribal leader’s low winning margin in his home turf signalled a shift in public opinion.

In a Taliban-style act of moral policing, the Maoists in Bihar forced a dance show to stop midway because they thought the girls dancing on stage were scantily dressed and that their gestures to the tunes of film songs were vulgar.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s tacit acknowledgement of long-standing rumours about corrupt bureaucrats investing in real estate in the state and thereby contributing to the spiralling of land pr

The Assembly bypoll in Jharkhand’s Kharsawan constituency with BJP chief minister Arjun Munda as the star candidate passed off peacefully with an astounding 73 per cent voting and no violent incident on Thursday. Both the ruling BJP-JMM and the Opposition JVM-Congress alliances claimed victory will be theirs.

A ruling JD(U) legislator in Bihar notorious for often being on the wrong side of the law is facing allegations of getting a man killed and then harassing his widow to capture her house. A shocked chief minister Nitish Kumar has promised her help, but more ruling party politicians are being spotted on the wrong foot.

Voices of dissent within Bihar’s ruling JD(U) are becoming more nagging and numerous since the party went ahead with its agenda of taking disciplinary action against several senior leaders accused of engaging in anti-party activities during last year’s Assembly polls.

The BJP on Saturday displayed its firm ambitions of winning power at the Centre in the 2014 general elections by getting together its top echelon of leaders at a massive rally in Bihar, where the coun

The junior doctors’ strike in Bihar came to an end on its fifth day on Friday after chief minister Nitish Kumar met the doctors’ representatives and assured to take steps for their protection.

Ten more patients in Bihar’s government-run hospitals died on Thursday due to denied medical attention caused by the unrelenting state-wide strike by junior doctors that entered its fourth day.