“I am just 48, but she (wife Rabri Devi) is 55,” RJD chief Lalu Prasad quipped while being enumerated for the 2010 Census.
So was she elder to him?

Despite the JMM-BJP agreement over power-sharing, there is profound suspense in Jharkhand over JMM supremo and chief minister Shibu Soren keeping his promise of resigning on May 25 to let the BJP lead the five-party coalition government for the next 28 months. Both parties have entered into a complex set of agreements and JMM

JMM supremo Shibu Soren finally broke his enigmatic silence on Tuesday to begin melting Jharkhand’s 21-day political impasse.

Tuesday’s agreement between the BJP and JMM in Jharkhand has brought Mr Arjun Munda, 42, closer to his third chance to become CM even as it makes way for the smooth exit of Mr Shibu Soren, 66 and freq

Three of the five men who gangraped a Japanese tourist near the holy town of Bodh Gaya in Bihar a month ago were on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment by a fast-track court that delivered the verdict just 26 days after hearings began, thus making it one of the fastest trials.

With the police records showing a steady rise in the number of crimes against women in Bihar in recent years, the state’s Opposition parties have got another handle to beat the Nitish Kumar government

Jharkhand’s political riddle refuses to emerge from the depths it sank following the BJP’s threat of withdrawing support from the JMM-led coalition government over a fortnight ago.

Socialist legend Jayaprakash Narayan and the rip-roaring waves of agitational politics he unleashed in the 1970s aiming at cleansing of India’s political system are now shaping up for a celluloid celebration on nearly the same massive scale as Richard Attenborough’s unparalleled film Gandhi.

The Congress and the JVM may have lost the 2009 Assembly polls in Jharkhand — more so because the two pre-poll allies did not try to cobble up a coalition with the numbers needed to rule — but the two resurgent parties certainly had not allowed the ruling post-poll coalition of the JMM and the BJP to win those polls.

He sat in a boat to cross a river in central Bihar and, on reaching the poverty-stricken village, he sat on a humble string cot surrounded by half-clad men and shy women as he chatted with the formerly rat-eating Musahar villagers about the health services available to them.