Keen to rebuild itself after its worst-ever electoral debacle, the RJD on Tuesday set out to analyse the reasons behind its fall from grace in the Bihar Assembly polls and explore ways to reinvent its methods and messages for winning back the masses.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s statement linking rising crime in Delhi with migrants evoked sharp reactions from leaders of both the ruling and Opposition parties in Bihar as well as the state’s intelligentsia on Monday. The controversy also set the stage for a reopening of the politically sensitive issue of migration in Bihar.

At least 500 armed Maoists on Sunday started gathering in Bihar’s southern Munger district close to the site of their violent skirmish with villagers that had led to the death of over 20 rebels in Nov

In a radical initiative to curb rampant corruption in Bihar, chief minister Nitish Kumar has proposed and managed to persuade his Cabinet to put an end to the legislators’ local area development (LAD)

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, known to be a man who likes reading, manages to find time for books from his essential reading of numerous government files and daily newspapers.

Reeling under the crushing defeat it met in Bihar’s Assembly polls, the RJD hopes to revive itself in its lost home turf by the organisational skills of senior leader Ramchandra Purve, a 63-year-old former minister and staunch loyalist of party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav.

The “appropriate time” indicated a month ago by the JD(U) leadership in Bihar to take disciplinary action against the party’s rebel leaders seems to have arrived. To begin with, the Nitish Kumar-led government has asked one rebel JD(U) MP to vacate a palatial residence in Patna he has been occupying since he was a minister.

The Maoists have suddenly increased their activities across Bihar and Jharkhand since the beginning of this week mainly for recruitment of cadres and to collect levy from business houses operating in

Senior RJD legislator Abdul Bari Siddiqui, a loyalist of party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, was on Friday named the Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly after Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary reco

A bloody battle between armed bands of Maoists and criminals for control over a riverside area in southern Bihar is feared to have led to the slaughter of at least 15 people, most of them Maoists. Four bodies have been recovered but the police suspects the number of dead could be over 15.