The RJD witnessed a blatant show of rowdiness in its youth wing on Friday in an incident of armed brawl at the party headquarters in Patna. Even as a shocked RJD chief, Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav, responded by dissolving the youth wing’s executive body and ordering an inquiry, Bihar’s ruling JD(U) was quick to ridicule the RJD.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s offer of a Rajya Sabha berth to LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan is aimed at further cementing the ties between the two Bihar parties that started during the Lok Sabha polls mainly as a result of the Congress party’s rebuff of both the regional parties.

As you read these words, the topmost people in power and position in the national capital will be relishing the taste of Bihar’s syrupy-sweet shahi litchis and jardalu mangoes, which are globally admired for their unbeatable aroma, tasty pulp and bigger size.

While Sonia Gandhi’s decision on Wednesday to remove both AICC in charge of Bihar, Jagdish Tytler, and state Congress president Anil Sharma from their posts was guided by a fresh rise in revolts by a section of the state Congress leaders, the choice of replacements built the ground for major strategic gains to the party in poll-bound Bihar.

The BJP hopes its national executive meeting and rally in Patna next week to be a “historic occasion” for the party and its prospects in the nation’s politics from now up to 2014 as Assembly polls in 25 states would be held during this period, beginning with Bihar in November.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s principal secretary and UP-cadre IAS officer Ram Chandra Prasad Singh on Monday resigned from the civil service to enter the Rajya Sabha as a nominee of Bihar’s rul

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas Paswan, Bihar’s tallest dalit leader and almost the state’s counterpart of Ms Mayawati, looks poised to enter the Rajya Sabha with the RJD’s support, shaking off his yearlong political wilderness after the LJP was routed entirely both in Bihar and Jharkhand in the Lok Sabha polls.

The faction-ridden Congress in Bihar finally appeared to be coming back on the tracks on Saturday after signs emerged about a long-running feud between the party’s state president Anil Sharma and the AICC’s Bihar in-charge Jagdish Tytler slowly subsiding.

Tibetan spiritual and political leader Dalai Lama on Thursday inaugurated a park dedicated to the memory and philosophy of Lord Buddha in the capital of Bihar, a state awash with Buddhist heritage, on the occasion of Buddha Purnima.

Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren may be finding his position under siege after the BJP withdrew support and both the Congress and the JVM(P) began eyeing the top post in return for their support to his minority government. But the tribal satrap flashed his characteristic smile in photos in newspaper advertisements his government released on the occasion of Buddha Purnima on Thursday.