Five passengers of the New Delhi-bound Brahmaputra Mail train were killed and 14 others got injured when a sleeper coach of the train derailed after being hit by a stationary goods train in northern Jharkhand on Wednesday morning. Six railway officials were suspended and a probe was ordered.

Having proudly pushed up Bihar’s annual plan expenditure size to `27,365 crore for the current financial year, the Nitish Kumar-led government has been found lagging in spending the money and has face

A farmer in Jharkhand’s poverty-stricken, Maoist-hit Palamu district committed suicide by hanging himself beside a well whose construction under MGNREGS he had been supervising because the bulk of the

Ten passengers in a general, unreserved compartment of the Delhi-Patna Shramjeevi Express were on Monday found drugged at Danapur railway station near Patna and their valuables worth Rs.150,000 stolen

In an ambitious plan aiming at almost doubling Bihar’s agricultural output in five years between 2012 and 2017, the Nitish Kumar-led government has unveiled a roadmap to raise and spend `1,52,511 cror

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, with movable assets worth only `6.15 lakhs and a flat in Delhi, may be India’s poorest chief minister who could put neighbouring Jharkhand’s jailed ex-chief minister

Power failure on the New Year’s Day midnight allegedly led to the death of four newborn babies at a major government-run medical college hospital in Bihar, causing angry protests by hundreds of people on Monday and forcing the state government to order a probe.

The almost definitive breakup between JD(U) and BJP after their failed seat-sharing talks for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls has started surfacing as a major concern for the two parties running a coalition government in Bihar, making their leaders voice hopes about UP and faith in Bihar.

The Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation has accepted the proposal for conferring the Gates Innovation Award to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for the first Gates Vaccine Innovation Award.

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The BJP on Saturday charged RJD chief Lalu Prasad with playing a “villainous” role at the behest of the Congress to ensure that the Lokpal bill was not passed in the Rajya Sabha.