Hounded from all sides by an intensified joint operation led by the police and CRPF, the Maoists in Bihar on Tuesday safely released the seven Bihar poll officials they had held hostage for two days soon after triggering a landmine blast that had killed a man and injured an official.

A day after the outlawed CPI (Maoist) members gunned down five people at a wedding ceremony in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, the rival People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) members shot dead four brothers in cold blood in a swift retaliation late on Sunday night.

There has been no breakthrough on securing the release of seven election officials in Bihar, two days after they were abducted by Maoists during the ninth round of panchayat polls, their worried famil

All seven election officials kidnapped by Maoists were released safe and sound on Tuesday, two days after they were abducted during the ninth round of panchayat polls, police said.

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Stepping up their spree of violence, the Maoists triggered a landmine blast in Bihar that killed a member of a team engaged in the panchayat polls on Sunday and gunned down five people at a wedding ce

India’s only Maoist-turned-MP Kames-hwar Baitha had the bitter experience of the typical violence of the Left-wing rebels when they blew up his ancestral house in Jharkhand’s Palamu district three days after he was released from a jail in Bihar on bail.

Even as the Bihar Vigilance Investigation Bureau finally registered a case against senior Congress leader and former Assembly Speaker Sadanand Singh for alleged irregularities in the recruitment of Assembly Secretariat employees, there is little response from the Congress party in his defence.

The Bihar government on Wednesday decided to implement the Right to Education Act under which children in the age group of six to 14 years will be provided free and compulsory education.

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Bihar government on Tuesday gave a go ahead to the guidelines framed for new chief minister area development scheme in place of the scrapped MLAs, MLCs local area development fund scheme.

Upping the ante against the most hallowed centre of the UPA government, the BJP on Saturday accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of “directing the ongoing show” of maligning PAC chairman and BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi with the aim of saving the PMO’s skin in the 2G spectrum scam. After the Congress onslaught against