A government engineer in Bihar found it safer to hide himself away — unknown even to his own family and strengthening their fear about his abduction — for three days after being harassed by unscrupulous contractors and criminals pressurising him to pass fake bills for work in the PMGSY road schemes.

In a travesty of the ethos of panchayati raj, as many as 227 panchayat mukhias in Bihar have been found to have made illegal profits from a public welfare scheme in collusion with government officials and are therefore facing arrest.

Facing the Opposition’s heightened attacks for the absence of industries in Bihar, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday accused the Centre of preventing investments worth over `1 lakh crores lined up for the state from taking shape on the ground.

Claims of Bihar’s marching growth asserted by the state’s workaholic chief minister Nitish Kumar have failed to convince his arch rival Lalu Prasad Yadav, who on Sunday said Kumar’s promises of making Bihar a developed state by 2015 might remain a dream only.

While Bihar’s economic growth rate for 2010-11 was on Wednesday projected to be at an impressive high of 10.05 per cent quite like the previous fiscal, the agriculture sector’s contribution to the state’s galloping GDP fell behind, sowing the seeds for fresh concerns and debates.

For Bihar’s ruling JD(U), taking long-pending disciplinary action against some rebel leaders has turned into a big headache because the inability to do so has started being seen as chief minister Niti

The death toll in the hooch tragedy in Bihar’s Samastipur district rose to nine on the second day on Sunday and the police arrested 13 people on charge of involvement in the making and sale of spuriou

After getting assurances from the Railways that two ongoing railway projects in Bihar were not being shelved, the Bihar government has submitted its wishlist for the upcoming Railway Budget for 2011-12 and sought enough funds for completion of all ongoing rail projects in the state.

The death toll in the thunderstorm in north Bihar rose to 11 on Thursday, prompting the state government to announce ex gratia payments of `1.5 lakh to the next of kin of each dead person and an assessment to begin into the crop loss believed to be about `30 crores.

Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda’s victory on Thursday in the Kharsawan Assembly bypoll gave the state’s ruling BJP-JMM alliance a major boost and promised political stability for the time being, but the tribal leader’s low winning margin in his home turf signalled a shift in public opinion.