The fresh strains between Bihar’s JD(U) and the BJP after chief minister Nitish Kumar’s bitter protests against advertisements praising Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi got a last-minute balm on Sunday in senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s speech at the end of the BJP rally.

The BJP’s controversial Hindutva icon, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday sent ripples across Bihar’s political spectrum without speaking a word and brought the BJP and the JD(U) on an

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s 63rd birthday celebration at his Patna home on Friday had less pomp than before but was markedly loaded with political symbolism with an eye on Bihar’s looming Assembly polls. The event was more political in nature than personal.

In a dark saga of revenge, a newly-wed woman in Bihar has killed four members of her in-laws’ family by lacing their food with poison after she could no longer tolerate the alleged harassment at their hands. Two other members who ate the poisoned food are struggling for life.

The BJP leaders in Bihar, currently preparing to make a success of the party’s two-day national executive meet in Patna beginning on June 12, are trying hard to persuade chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar to address a massive rally the saffron party has planned on the second day of its conclave.

Raising its head in Bihar’s rural areas for the second time in six months, encephalitis has killed 13 children in Muzaffarpur district in a week. Even as the 13th child succumbed on Tuesday, doctors at the government hospitals were reportedly dismissing the deaths as a result of the rising summer heat.

With the last-minute entry of a surprise candidate raising the number of contenders vying for the five vacant Rajya Sabha seats from Bihar to six, it may now be an election and perhaps some horse-trading that would decide which two of the three non-NDA nominees go to the Upper House.

Despite acute unease in its ranks caused by the scheduled participation of the BJP’s controversial Hindutva mascots in the party’s Patna conclave, the JD(U) has uncharacteristically refrained from voi

Wary of the RJD-LJP’s perceived soft corners for the Congress, the Left parties are going to contest the Bihar Assembly polls together to throw the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government out of power. This is going to be the first time Bihar’s Left parties will contest an Assembly election as a united block.

Despite JMM chief Shibu Soren’s fresh claims of talks going on with the Congress for government formation in Jharkhand, the national party remains cold to his enticements primarily for two critical factors — the Maoists and ally Babulal Marandi.