At least nine labourers died on Monday after consuming poisonous 'sattu', a variety of gram flour, in Bihar's Jehanabad district, police said. An inquiry has been ordered into the incident.

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A teenager, who was the main witness in his mother's rape case, was burnt alive in Nawada district on Sunday, police said.

Chintu Kumar, 17, was set on fire by the rape accused in Garabigha village u

A Right to Information (RTI) activist was shot and seriously wounded on Friday by some assailants in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, police said.

RTI activist Razi Hasan was battling for life at a hosp

A woman and her two children were electrocuted in their house at Satpherwa in Buxur district on Friday, police said.

The incident occurred when Sarita Devi (25) and her son Chotu (2) and daughter Vik

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi, RJD leader Rabri Devi and eight others, including two state Ministers on Monday took oath as members of the legislative council.

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Shortage of infrastructure in schools in Bihar was a 'major challenge', state Minister for Education P.K. Sahi said on Saturday adding there was no drinking water facility in around 13000 government s

Thousands of lawyers in Bihar on Wednesday abstained from work to protest against the arrest of a colleague.

The Bihar Bar Council had asked all advocates to observe a strike over the arrest of Anil

Left at the altar - alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too

A woman in a village in Bihar's Sitamarhi district was forced by some people to eat human excreta and drink urine after being branded a witch, police said on Saturday.

Krishna Kumari Devi, in her ear

In another case of street justice, a jeep driver was burnt alive by angry mob in Bihar's Gopalganj district on Thursday after an accident in which a student was killed and two others were injured, pol