In sly remarks revealing his dissatisfaction about the way Central funds were being spent in Bihar, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday asked chief minister Nitish Kumar to ensure strict monitoring of schemes like MNREGS and Indira Awas Yojna (IAY).

Ten people were on Tuesday sentenced to death and four others awarded life imprisonment by a lower court in Bihar for the Amausi massacre in 2009 in which 16 people from the politically forward Kurmi and Koeri castes were shot dead in cold blood.

In a shocking exposure by the police, five of 25 minor girls arrested in a red-light area close to the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar’s Araria district were on Monday identified as students of a government-run residential school, exclusively for dalit, tribal and backward caste girls.

A 16-year-old girl died here on Tuesday after she allegedly consumed poisonous substance with her boyfriend on the Valentine’s Day.

Police said Ritu Kumar (16) and his girlfriend Jyoti Kumari consume

Old habits die hard, but some old habits hardly die. An MLA of Bihar’s ruling JD(U) has shocked public and political sensibilities by repeating his indulgence in vulgarly dancing with bargirls two years after chief minister Nitish Kumar had reprimanded him for a similar act.

In a fresh controversey for ruling JD(U) MLA Shyambahadur Singh from Badharia assembly in Bihar's Siwan district, TV channels on Friday aired a footage which showed him dancing with girls at a cultura

Disregarding massive humanitarian losses like some 50 lively villages already swallowed by the mighty Kosi river’s waters and the displacement of over 75,000 people, a mega road bridge across the rive

In the second murder of a politician in Jharkhand in two months, a leader of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) led by formed chief minister Babulal Marandi was gunned down in broad daylight on

Bihar’s ruling allies JD(U) and BJP have been witnessing an escalating unease ever since the two parties began campaigning separately for the UP Assembly polls and some of their leaders openly issued

The RSS on Sunday criticised social activist Anna Hazare for failing to acknowledge that its workers played an “active role” in his nationwide crusade against corruption last year, though the Sangh it