Bihar’s much-hyped “bicycle revolution” in girls’ education and empowerment is going to be celebrated in a song being planned by the state’s education department that believes the song will add a furt

Defying a deadly push off a bridge into the swollen Ganga, angered by a deadlier combination of caste prejudice and greed for dowry that led her husband and in-laws to allegedly push her to what seeme

Defying a deadly push off a bridge into the swollen Ganga, angered by a deadlier combination of caste prejudice and greed for dowry that led her husband and in-laws to allegedly push her to what seemed certain death, a

Breaking his long silence, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Saturday said in a calculated self-explanation that he would flag off BJP leader L.K. Advani’s anti-corruption yatra. The JD(U) stalwart then attacked the UPA government and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the 2G spectrum scam.

JD(U) stalwart and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s eventual willingness to flag off BJP patriarch L.K. Advani’s rath yatra from Bihar came on Friday after much brainstorming in the JD(U) which concluded that the possible damages to the regional party would not outweigh the gains expected.

"My husband was sure that I will be killed after he pushed me off the bridge into the Ganges. But I was saved because I know swimming," Amrita Kumari, in her 20s, told IANS Friday.

Adarsh Kumar push

In perhaps the first occurrence of its kind in India, freedom of expression on social network Facebook has led to the suspension from service of two employees of the Bihar government. The punishment meted out to the two award-winning writers has sparked outrage both online and offline.

Apparently alarmed by BJP patriarch L.K. Advani’s anti-corruption rath yatra slated to start from Bihar next month, JD(U) stalwart and chief minister Nitish Kumar is all set to begin a tour of Bihar in November. This multi-phase yatra is expected to be a strategic multipurpose vehicle for both Mr Kumar and the JD(U).

JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav on Tuesday met Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and is understood to have discussed the party’s future strategy in view of ally BJP’s revamped posturing as seen in its supposed preparations to project Narendra Modi as the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate.

JD(U) stalwart and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday diplomatically downplayed the three-day fast by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi of the BJP and its larger presumed import within the NDA, disassociating the JD(U) from the event and keeping his cards close to his chest.