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

Internal rifts in Jharkhand’s ruling BJP-JMM-AJSU alliance came to the fore on Thursday, a day before the Lok Sabha bypoll in Jamshedpur in which all three ruling allies are contesting against one another in a bid to win the prestigious constituency.

Two days after his surprise visit to the family of a teenage rape victim in UP, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is set to make a brief, unscheduled visit to Forbesganj in Bihar on Friday to meet the kin of the victims of the brutal June 3 police firing on poor Muslims.

The winner in the keenly-contested Jamshedpur Lok Sabha bypoll in Jharkhand, slated for Friday, could be decided by which way three crucial components of the constituency’s 13.97 lakh voters, the Kurmi community, Muslims and Maoists, swing.

By winning the Purnea Assembly bypoll, Bihar’s ruling JD(U)-BJP coalition caused disappointment among the state’s Opposition parties, especially the Congress and the RJD, on Wednesday. The BJP managed to retain the seat largely due to a sympathy wave and a collapse of unity in the Opposition parties.

An American university researcher was abducted along with a local in Bihar's Jamui district by suspected Maoists, police said on Thursday.

Juhi Tyagi, in her mid 20s, a sociology research fellow at S

In a bid to provide relief to farmers, the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar on Tuesday decided to slash the VAT on diesel by 0.36 per cent from 18.36 per cent to 18 per cent, reducing the price of diesel by 14 paise per litre.
A decision to this effect was taken by the state Cabinet presided over by chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Bihar’s ruling allies, JD(U) and BJP, may be slowly moving towards yet another coalition friction that is in the making after a disgruntled JD(U) MP shot off a letter to BJP national president Nitin Gadkari alleging about “corrupt practices” in two departments in the Bihar government under the charge of BJP ministers.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), an alliance partner in Bihar’s Nitish Kumar government, retained the Purnia Assembly seat in the state on Wednesday, defeating the Congress.

The BJP on Monday poured ridicule on Congress president Sonia Gandhi and prime minister Manmohan Singh for the massive corruption in the country and named senior ministers in the Central UPA government as willing collaborators in the 2G spectrum scam.