As you read these words, the topmost people in power and position in the national capital will be relishing the taste of Bihar’s syrupy-sweet shahi litchis and jardalu mangoes, which are globally admired for their unbeatable aroma, tasty pulp and bigger size.

The Union Cabinet’s decision on Tuesday to impose President’s Rule in Jharkhand came as a shock to both the BJP and the JMM in Jharkhand, making the two parties in Shibu Soren’s doomed coalition government condemn the decision and blame the Congress for the crisis.

The BJP hopes its national executive meeting and rally in Patna next week to be a “historic occasion” for the party and its prospects in the nation’s politics from now up to 2014 as Assembly polls in 25 states would be held during this period, beginning with Bihar in November.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s principal secretary and UP-cadre IAS officer Ram Chandra Prasad Singh on Monday resigned from the civil service to enter the Rajya Sabha as a nominee of Bihar’s rul

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas Paswan, Bihar’s tallest dalit leader and almost the state’s counterpart of Ms Mayawati, looks poised to enter the Rajya Sabha with the RJD’s support, shaking off his yearlong political wilderness after the LJP was routed entirely both in Bihar and Jharkhand in the Lok Sabha polls.

The faction-ridden Congress in Bihar finally appeared to be coming back on the tracks on Saturday after signs emerged about a long-running feud between the party’s state president Anil Sharma and the AICC’s Bihar in-charge Jagdish Tytler slowly subsiding.

Tibetan spiritual and political leader Dalai Lama on Thursday inaugurated a park dedicated to the memory and philosophy of Lord Buddha in the capital of Bihar, a state awash with Buddhist heritage, on the occasion of Buddha Purnima.

Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren may be finding his position under siege after the BJP withdrew support and both the Congress and the JVM(P) began eyeing the top post in return for their support to his minority government. But the tribal satrap flashed his characteristic smile in photos in newspaper advertisements his government released on the occasion of Buddha Purnima on Thursday.

As the results of this year’s IIT-JEE results appeared on Wednesday morning, a nondescript area in the Bihar capital suddenly burst into celebratory noise emerging from a rather quiet coaching centre, reminding local residents of similar jubilation in the past two years. Super 30, the small coaching centre that trains students from very-low economic backgrounds for the IIT entrance tests free of cost, had done it again.

Despite withdrawing support to Jharkhand’s Shibu Soren government and asking its ministers to resign, the BJP appears still hopeful of reaching rapprochement with its wily ally JMM and reviving their coalition government so as to avoid imposition of President’s Rule.