The smouldering wrangle between Bihar governor Devanand Konwar and the Nitish Kumar-led government over administration of the state’s universities got fresh momentum after Mr Konwar appointed six university vice-chancellors and five pro-vice-chancellors apparently disregarding the government’s wishes.

The Maoists gunned down three tribal villagers and set afire a former mukhia’s house in Bihar’s Rohtas district late on Saturday evening reportedly in retaliation of the recent murder of one of their

The alleged industrial land “scam” in Bihar became wider and murkier on Sunday with the Opposition RJD accusing the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government of allotting land belonging to a state-owned sick PS

Two PILs have been filed in the Patna high court in connection with the alleged industrial land “scam” in Bihar that involved allotment of prime industrial plots to relatives and acquaintances of mini

After all three MLCs of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) in Bihar defected to the ruling JD(U) five days ago, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan’s party confronted another debilitating crisis on Saturday as one of its

After six months of his self-imposed silence on Bihar affairs and an equally long absence from his lost source of power, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav appeared before his supporters in Patna in a new, improved avatar on Wednesday and held his audience spellbound by his familiar fire.

Despite the Bihar chief secretary’s probe into the alleged industrial land “scam” resulting in exoneration of the ruling NDA politicians and bureaucrats who figured in the Opposition parties’ list of beneficiaries, the controversy shows little signs of fading and looks set to land in court.

A paramilitary trooper killed a sub-inspector and injured a constable after a heated exchange of words over a cooking dispute in Bihar's Kishanganj district, police said on Monday.

Hari Singh, in-cha

The CAG’s latest report on Bihar for the year ended March 31, 2010 has given the state’s Opposition parties fresh weapons to be used against the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP alliance government, which is already feeling the heat over an alleged “scam” in industrial land allotments.

The alleged land scam in Bihar involving allotment of prime industrial plots to relatives of ruling NDA politicians and top officials set off fierce political blame games on Wednesday with the Opposition parties MLAs demanding chief minister Nitish Kumar’s resignation and a probe into the land allotments by the CBI.