Putting a stay on its July 15 order about referring the probe into the alleged Rs 11,412-crore “treasury scam” in Bihar to the CBI, the Patna High Court on Friday gave a breather to the embattled Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP government. But the two ruling parties announced plans for state-wide demonstrations against what they called “conspiracy” by the Opposition parties.

Reeling under rising Opposition pressure in the wake of an alleged scam worth Rs 11,412 crore, Bihar’s embattled Nitish Kumar government has almost set the stage for a faceoff between the judiciary and the state legislature.

A day after making missiles out of furniture and microphones inside the Assembly, poll-bound Bihar’s restive Opposition MLAs on Wednesday graduated to flinging slippers at the Speaker while pressing f

An informal BJP-JD(U) breakfast meeting to resolve conflicts between the two over last month’s Narendra Modi advertisements got soured with fresh bitterness on Sunday due to the Bihar government’s rec

A state-wide bandh in Bihar enforced by the RJD and the LJP on Saturday to protest the fuel price hike and corruption under the Nitish Kumar government shut down most parts of the state largely due to the fear factor associated with the two parties’ workers. Normal life was badly hit.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday turned a ceremony for releasing his government’s five-year “report card” into a tour de force, zealously painting a picture of unprecedented developments in all spheres in Bihar and announcing several schemes, including sops for farmers, cops and even journalists.

Alarmingly deficient monsoon rains, canals with little water and defunct tube wells have brought back the fear of a drought in large parts of Bihar for the second consecutive year. Sensing the farmers’ distress in an election year, the Nitish Kumar government is contemplating a number of urgent sops to prevent crop failure.

The Maoists on Thursday blew up a railway station in Jharkhand, killing a policeman, and attacked other railway and public properties in the state during the second day of their two-day bandh in five states. Bihar witnessed no such attacks but the atmosphere of fear and cancellation of trains severely hit the wedding season in the interiors.

While closely watching the simmering tensions between Bihar’s ruling JD(U) and ally BJP over Narendra Modi’s likely presence in the Assembly poll campaigns, the Opposition Congress has lined up an array of Union ministers and MPs to tour the state this month.

A Bihar woman has sent unusual vibes in society by willingly organising the second wedding of her husband with her own younger sister in a rare show of love for both.
Savita Devi, 27, a mother of three children in Satyaha village of Saran district, defied strong disapproval from her extended family and community to her plans to formally organise the second marriage of her husband, Ashok Shah, 30, and her sister, Sarita Kumari, 23.