Even as LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan courted arrest in Delhi while staging a protest against the June 3 police firing on poor Muslims in Bihar’s Forbesganj, the BJP on Tuesday charged the state’s Opposition parties with unduly adding communal colours to a “mere clash” in which four people were killed.

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s increasingly longer spells of absence from his lost political powerhouse and home turf of Bihar ever since the party’s rout in the 2010 Assembly polls haunted Bihar’s RJD leaders and workers on Tuesday as they observed the party’s 15th foundation day in Patna.

Former IPS officer and JVM(P) candidate Ajay Kumar won in the Jamshedpur Lok Sabha bypoll by a record margin of over 1.55 lakh votes on Monday, delivering a rude shock to Jharkhand’s three ruling allies — BJP, JMM and AJSU — and JVM(P)’s ally Congress, who had all fielded candidates and campaigned hard.

Two days after the massacre of six villagers in a Bihar village by the Maoists, the state’s police officials are faced with the increasingly difficult task of securing the lives of people in hundreds of villages who have started resisting demands from the rebels to provide shelter and cooperation as before.

All the 11 people kidnapped by Maoists from Kareili village in Bihar's Munger district were released in a jungle, police said today.

"The abducted people were released in Basraha-Chormara jungle nea

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday visited the homes of poor Muslims whose relatives were killed and others injured in the June 3 police firing in Forbesganj and assured them of help in

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday visited the homes of poor Muslims whose relatives were killed and others injured in the June 3 police firing in Forbesganj and assured them of help in getting justice and better medical treatment for the injured.

The fear of Maoists and the frequently alleged nexus between Jharkhand’s politicians and the rebels hung thick in the air on Friday as the bypoll for Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency was conducted peacefully with only 48 per cent votes polled amid tight security arrangements.

The fear of Maoists and the frequently alleged nexus between Jharkhand’s politicians and the rebels hung thick in the air on Friday as the bypoll for Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency was conducted peacefully with only 48 per cent votes polled amid tight security arrangements.

Maoists killed six people and abducted seven in a village in Bihar's Munger district, police said on Saturday.

Nearly 50 armed Maoists stormed Bangalwa Kareli village, about 200 km from Patna, early