Nitish govt hit by acts of MLAs
Six months after settling back in power armed with a massive mandate, the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar is now finding itself increasingly under political attacks due to the inappropriate behaviour of some of its ministers and MLAs and taking cautious steps at corrections.
Corruption should end: Meira Kumar
Ahead of Yoga Guru Ramdev’s proposed agitation against corruption, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday said said all possible steps should be taken from everyone to root out corruption.
Strike cripples Bihar, Nitish orders probe
A day-long strike of work by Bihar’s government doctors in protest against the brutal murder of a jail doctor by inmates largely paralysed medical services across the state on Tuesday and forced chief minister Nitish Kumar to order the transfer of two top officials for negligence.
Doc killed in prison in Bihar
The brutal murder of a jail doctor on duty by convicted prisoners inside a jail in Bihar has prompted the state’s shocked government doctors to call a day-long strike in protest on Tuesday and renewed demands for stringent measures to protect doctors across the state.
Another Bihar minister in trouble?
Another BJP minister in the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government, Prem Kumar, could be in trouble with the LJP on Sunday demanding his removal for allegedly suppressing information that he was declared an
Seven prisoners booked for lynching doctor in Bihar
A case was lodged on Monday against seven inmates of Bihar's Gopalganj district jail for beating to death a doctor inside the prison premises, police said. The state government has ordered a probe int
CPI to struggle against corruption, price rise: Bardhan
CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan on Monday said his party would soon launch nation-wide stir in phase manner to protest against corruption, price rise and food insecurity.
Techie, cricketer Bihar’s youngest mukhias
Two 22-year-olds have become Bihar’s youngest elected mukhias (village council heads) in the panchayat polls held earlier this month, in which thousands of people below their thirties contested for the first time and many even won, as per the results now coming in. The victories of engineering student Ajay Kumar as the mukhia of
Former mantri surrenders, in judicial custody
Former Bihar minister Ramadhar Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday surrendered in a lower court in Aurangabad after quietly remaining a proclaimed absconder for 16 years and being forced to resign from the state Cabinet following the revelation last week.
19 years after Babri speech, legislator sent to jail
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Ramadhar Singh was on Thursday sent by a court to 14 days judicial custody for making an inflammatory speech after the Babri Masjid razing in 1992.
A court in