In a daring act of daylight crime in the house of RJD MP Umashankar Singh in Bihar’s Chapra on Wednesday afternoon, unidentified criminals armed with AK-47 rifles shot dead three people less than an hour after the MP from Maharajganj constituency left the house.

Bihar’s Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP government was on Tuesday jolted by revelations of an alleged land allocation scam in which the sons, daughters and relatives of ministers, legislators and MPs of the ruling parties and top officials were allotted prime industrial land allegedly in violation of rules.

Eleven mobile phones and more than 40 packets of ganja or cannabis were seized from inmates of a Bihar jail during a raid early on Wednesday, police said.

The contraband were discovered in sub-divisi

Echoing the contention of the Congress about Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s sustained campaign to force the Centre to grant the state a special category status, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday described the move as a “drama” aimed at political gains rather than Bihar’s development.

A multilingual man giving his name as Reazul Sarkar and carrying a diary written in Marathi was arrested in Bihar’s Kishanganj district early on Sunday for suspicious movement in the area close to the

With senior RJD leaders quitting the party, its supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav failing to get a central ministerial berth, and discontent among its leaders and supporters on a new high over Mr Yadav naming

Bihar’s continued absence of representation in the Central UPA Cabinet after Tuesday’s reshuffle freshly rankled the state’s politicians and people alike. All the parties in Bihar, except the Congress, criticised the absence of a minister from Bihar as injustice to the state’s 10.38 crore people.

Although the police in Bihar are planning to appoint more Special Police Officers (SPOs) to help the security forces fight mainly the Maoists, these temporary appointees would no longer get any arms f

In bolstering the confidence of Bihar’s Muslims, while the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP government has gone too far to turn back, the Forbesganj police firing incident may have indicated that the regime cannot go forward. The death of four poor Muslims looks set to snowball into a credibility crisis between Mr Kumar and Bihar’s Muslims.

While Maoists are known to have threatened and attacked Bihar’s politicians, officials and businessmen, now ordinary criminals and

commoners are increasingly being suspected to be using the Maoists’ name to do the same. A Patna shopkeeper’s arrest has pointed at this growing

trend.