Spiritual 'Guru' Sri Sri Ravishankar on Sunday lavished praise on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi for improved law and order situation and development in Bihar, but

Seven mutilated bodies showing marks of their brutal murder were discovered in a secluded jungle area in Jharkhand’s Maoist-affected Khunti district on Wednesday noon, putting both the people and the police on tenterhooks.

With the judicial inquiry commission probing the Forbesganj police firing on poor Muslims failing to submit its report within the stipulated six months, the Bihar government has extended the single-member panel’s term by a year.

Five police officers in Bihar’s southern Nawada district were on Monday booked for murder after an alleged custodial death of a man whose body was found abandoned four days after he was picked up by the police. The FIRs were lodged after chief minister Nitish Kumar ordered a probe.

A village in Jharkhand has carved out a niche for itself by showing for over 30 long years that its people do not need to visit the police station to seek help for resolution of their conflicts. The gram sabha (village council) has been doing this job amicably and everyone is satisfied.

Even as Bihar’s Opposition RJD announced its plans to begin statewide agitations to demand a CBI probe into the enrolment of lakhs of fake students in schools, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday dismissed the phenomenon as “not a matter for worry” and said a probe was on.

In what appears to be a mega scam in Bihar’s education department, enrolments of over three lakh out of some 10 lakh students shown to have been admitted in the state’s primary and middle schools have been found to be fake.

The Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll campaigns are likely to be the stage from where the pent-up sparks of the smouldering feud between Nitish Kumar and Narendra Modi could leap out as both the top NDA chi

Trinidad and Tobago prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Wednesday got an emotional homecoming welcome at her forefathers’ ancestral village in Bihar and showered with the traditional love normally shown to a village girl returning home after a long time.

In bizarre tit for tat, the cash-strapped Patna Municipal Corporation has used garbage as a weapon against one longtime holding tax defaulter and angered thousands of residents by dumping truckloads of stinking garbage at a market complex he owns.