He may be one of India’s most infamous politicians convicted for murder, but former RJD MP Pappu Yadav has taken the unlikely step of supporting Gandhian social activist Anna Hazare’s ongoing campaign against corruption by an indefinite fast inside Patna’s Beur Jail.

The indefinite fast by former MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, facing a life term in CPI-M MLA Ajit Sarkar murder case, entered its third day on Thursday to support social activist Anna Hazare's de

Bihar deputy chief minister S.K. Modi on Tuesday lent his full support to eminent social worker Anna Hazare and other activists in their ongoing campaign for a comprehensive Lokpal bill for weeding out corruption.

At least 16 dead foetuses and underdeveloped infants — 14 of them female — were found dumped in the open in Bihar’s Kishanganj on Sunday, indicating rampant female foeticide and female infanticide taking place in a state where the latest census noted an alarming fall in the sex ratio.

Sixteen foetuses, mostly female, were found in plastic jars in Bihar's Kishanganj district while another was recovered near a garbage heap in Muzaffarpur town, police said on Monday.

The foetuses wer

The humble birthplace of iconic British novelist George Orwell in Bihar was saved from turning into an animal farm, but the earliest vestiges of the Englishman’s Indian origin are now locked in a quarrel between an English teacher claiming ownership and a shocked state government.

CBI on Saturday filed a charge sheet against Rupam Pathak accused of stabbing to death BJP MLA of Purnia Raj Kishore Kesari in January.

After legislators in Bihar lost the lucrative local area development (LAD) funds to chief minister Nitish Kumar’s new initiatives to curb corruption, they are happy to get a three-fold rise in their salaries and perks becoming effective from April 1.

Feeling ignored and hurt over the apparent haste in which Bihar’s Nitish Kumar-led government got 12 bills introduced and passed in the state Assembly in just over two hours, the Opposition parties on Wednesday complained to the governor about being deliberately deprived of their democratic right of intervention.

With Bihar’s craze for cricket clashing with darkness in the power-starved state amid growing agitations, the state’s MLAs have made the unprecedented demand for an early adjournment of the ongoing Assembly session and uninterrupted power supply on Wednesday to watch the India-Pakistan semi-final match in the World Cup.