A 96-year-old Christian educational institution in Patna has said it is battling the land mafia after 7.68 acres of its prime land was allegedly illegally acquired and that the minority community’s members are being assaulted. The Opposition RJD has alleged the connivance of Bihar’s NDA government in this apparent land grab.

While security forces engaged in a month-long anti-Maoist operation in Jharkhand claim to have succeeded in pushing the rebels outside or deep into the Saranda jungles, many of the area’s tribal villagers are currently fleeing their homes in distress due to alleged atrocities by the securitymen and the fear of the Maoists’ revenge.

A 20-year-old girl student of IIT, Patna, from Andhra Pradesh on Thursday allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the roof of her hostel here as she was depressed with her performance in the elite

A close aide of Bihar’s ruling JD(U) MLA and criminal-turned-politician Anant Singh and a Congress leader were shot dead by unidentified criminals in two separate attacks on Tuesday, beginning what many call a return of violence to political rivalries.

The quiet return of BJP legislator Ramadhar Singh into the Bihar Cabinet as cooperative minister three months after he was forced to resign is being seen as chief minister Nitish Kumar’s care not to further upset the state’s upper castes.

Two days after his impassioned speech in Parliament about the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday appeared in a special CBI court in connection with a case in the Rs 1,000-crore fodder scam that had hit undivided Bihar in the mid 1990s.

As a punitive measure, the Maoists on Monday abducted two villagers in Bihar’s Jamui district who had been allegedly extorting money and spreading fear in the area in the name and guise of the rebels without having any link with the left-wing outfits.

Abductions and train robberies have returned to haunt Bihar again after a brief lull and fresh questions are being raised about the state government’s insistence that the law and order situation has i

A day after a 15-year-old boy was abducted for ransom, his body was found near Patna on Friday, police said. The incident triggered protests as people demanded action against police for inaction.

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Social activist Anna Hazare’s life and his years of campaign against corruption, including the current one, are likely to be included in the school textbooks of Jharkhand, according to the state’s edu