Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar remains low in the possession of worldly assets, owning much less than most of his Cabinet colleagues and even deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi.

Amid the alarming rise in incidents of abductions in Bihar, news of the murder of a four-year-old boy after his abduction for ransom spread a fresh wave of shock on Sunday even as the state’s police h

A month after hitting the dusty bylanes of his state’s interior villages just like Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar did several times, Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda has taken another leaf out

At least six crorepatis figure among the 29 ministers in Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Cabinet.

The new year promises Bihar’s ordinary people some unprecedented ease in dealing with the state’s rigid networks of officialdom as the Nitish Kumar-led government’s proposed Right to Service Act has fixed definite timeframes for several essential services frequently sought by the needy people.

A bustling fair in progress in a Bihar village currently is no ordinary, familiar event in the rural calendar.
Attended by large crowds from dozens of villages, the fair is organised by armed Maoists to commemorate their “martyrs” and spread the revolutionary ideology. Yet the Bihar police are blissfully unaware of such activities.

An old man in Bihar in the twilight of his life has donated most of his modest life’s savings to chief minister Nitish Kumar urging him to set up an oldage home. The 80-year-old man, a published novelist, took the decision after getting thoroughly disappointed with what he called his “only child’s insatiable greed”.

The abduction and murder of a 10-year-old schoolboy in Patna by his adolescent friends spread shock waves across Bihar on Friday amid what seems like a renewed season of abductions in the state a month after the Nitish Kumar government returned to power promising fewer crimes.

Bihar MLA Sunil Pandey of the ruling JD(U) and his brother MLC Hulas Pandey have brought fresh embarrassment for chief minister Nitish Kumar after the two controversial politicians were booked for demanding `1 crore as extortion money from a construction company head.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday faced the embarrassing situation of a senior leader openly asking him to take moral responsibility for the party’s electoral debacle in Bihar and step down. The RJD leadership quickly shot down the demand and sought to downplay its likely impacts.