PATNA: Four persons including three minor children were killed while two others were injured in an LPG cylinder explosion in Bihar’s Kishanganj district, an official said.
PATNA: With the Lok Sabha elections underway, Bihar Police are keeping a close watch on the posts being uploaded on social media platforms.
PATNA: Bihar's Kishanganj police on Sunday arrested four persons in connection with the gan-grape of a 30-year-old woman.
PATNA: Political parties very well recognise the worth of each single vote; thus, they try to reach every voter to seek support in elections. In Bihar, this outreach programme by political parties is not just limited to the constituencies they are contesting but a way beyond.
NEW DELHI: Days after the arrest of two shooters, who allegedly opened fire at Bollywood actor Salman Khan's home, the sleuths of Delhi Police's Special Cell and the Crime Branch tracking the gang activities have revealed the new modus operandi of infamous Lawrence Bishnoi syndicate.
PATNA: The Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) has set up a Women's Cricket Development Committee, to foster the growth of women's cricket in the state.
NEW DELHI: A 37-year-old woman, who used to sell stolen high-end Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) in Jharkhand and Bihar, was arrested after a massive operation, a Delhi Police official said on Tuesday.
PATNA: The Saran police arrested 8 police personnel including SI and ASI rank officers on Wednesday evening for alleged links with the sand mafia in the region.
PATNA: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be in Bihar’s Gaya district on Wednesday to address a rally.
PATNA: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to address a rally in Bihar's Aurangabad district in favour of BJP candidate Sushil Kumar Singh on Wednesday.
PATNA: Fifty candidates are in the fray in five Lok Sabha constituencies of Bihar where polling will take place in the second phase, an election commission official said on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address election rallies in Bihar's Nawada and West Bengal's Jalpaiguri on Sunday. He will also hold a roadshow in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur.
PATNA: The Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) on Friday joined the RJD-led Mahagathbandan in Bihar and has been allotted the Gopalganj, Jhanjharpur, and Motihari Lok Sabha seats for the coming elections.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a mega poll blitz in Bihar’s Jamui district on Thursday assailed the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-Congress alliance for their negative politics and also outlined how the country was mustering strength and getting global recognition under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.
PATNA: Bihar BJP MLA Pawan Yadav claimed that he received an extortion call from Pakistan on Monday.
PATNA: Four members of a family, including three children, were brutally killed in Bihar's East Champaran district.
PATNA: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav will announce the seat-sharing formula of the INDIA bloc for Bihar on Friday.
PATNA: Fire broke out in an AC coach of a Mumbai-bound Holi special train (Number 01410) in Bihar’s Bhojpur district on Wednesday.
PATNA: Two cricketers from Bihar, Sakib Hussain and Chandan Yadav are eyeing for glory in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. With the efforts of Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) president Rakesh Tiwari, the two cricketers have taken giant strides in their journey.
PATNA: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday said that the seat sharing of the INDIA bloc has been finalised and will be announced in Patna in one or two days.
MUMBAI: Bhojpuri actress Akshara Singh on Tuesday shared some pictures, flaunting her hair and makeup, and asked fans when they are celebrating the festival of Holi.
PATNA: In a blow to the INDIA bloc ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the RJD and Congress have locked horns over seat-sharing in Bihar's Aurangabad.
PATNA: One person was killed and nine others injured after a portion of an under-construction bridge in Bihar’s Supaul district collapsed on Friday.
PATNA: Separate teams of Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the premises of RJD MLA Shambhu Nath Yadav in Bihar's Buxar district on Wednesday.
PATNA: A police outpost in Bihar's Vaishali was attacked on Tuesday and two personnel were injured, after a Dalit woman alleged that her son was beaten up for filling his bucket from there, while she and her daughter faced misbehaviour when they intervened.
PATNA: At least 25 persons sustained injuries after a speeding Pickup van overturned and fell into a 10-feet pit in Bihar Jamui district on Tuesday, an official said.
PATNA: Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) president Rakesh Tiwari feels securing the rights for Moin-ul-Haq Stadium on a long-term lease from the state government could be the turning point for the Bihar cricket.
PATNA: The 40 Lok Sabha seats of Bihar are crucial to deciding the fate of NDA and INDIA bloc in the 2024 polls, and so, both sides are meticulously preparing for each seat in the state.
BENGALURU: A minor girl, who was a victim of child marriage from Bihar, committed suicide here, said officials, adding that her husband has been arrested.
PATNA: Seven persons including three children were killed and four others have been injured after a speeding tractor laden with cement rammed into an SUV in Bihar's Khagaria district, on Monday morning.
PATNA: Bihar's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) H.R. Srinivasa has said that the low voter turnout in the state remains the biggest challenge for him and he is proactively making efforts to increase the same.
PATNA: More than 7.64 crore people in Bihar are eligible to exercise their franchise in the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections, as per the Election Commission data till January 22.
PATNA: The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Saturday that the Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases in Bihar from April 19 to June 1, while the counting of votes will be taken up on June 4.
PATNA: Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids at the residence of two sand traders in Bihar’s Bhojpur district on Saturday.
PATNA: Four persons were killed and nine others critically injured on Wednesday after a speeding SUV rammed into a stationary truck in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district.
PATNA: The Patna Police on Tuesday arrested a youth for threatening to shoot Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
PATNA: Bihar Police on Tuesday issued an alert for all the 38 districts of the state after the Central government issued Citizens Amendment Act (CAA) notification.
PATNA: Three persons including a school student were killed while twelve other passengers were injured after a speeding bus overturned in Bihar’s Samastipur district on Monday.
PATNA: Former Chief Minister Rabri Devi along with four other candidates of Mahagathbandhan on Monday filed their nomination papers for the MLC election in Bihar.
PATNA: The BJP on Saturday announced three candidates for the MLC elections in Bihar, with the name of senior BJP leader and former Union minister Shahnawaz Hussain being the notable omission.
PATNA: JD-U MP Giridhari Yadav has put a question mark on his own government and has claimed that Bihar only have labourers and not companies.
PATNA: Power shortage in Bihar is now minimal compared to other states.
PATNA: An officer in-charge of a police post in Saharsa district of Bihar was suspended on the alleged charge of forcing a woman for his body massage, a police official said.
PATNA: The education department has detected alleged fraud by 445 candidates during recruitment of primary teachers in Bihar.
PATNA: A day after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visited RJD leader Rabri Devi's residence for an Iftar party, the latter's son Tej Pratap Yadav claimed that a secret discussion took place regarding the formation of government in Bihar.
PATNA: A youth of Patna district alleged that Subhash Prasad Yadav, the brother-in-law of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, had threatened him and made him return the money paid to buy his land.
PATNA: A girl suffered burn injuries after two unidentified men attacked her with acid in Bihar's Rohtas district on Monday.
PATNA: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Saturday won the Bochahan Assembly bypolls after defeating the BJP candidate with a big margin of over 36,000 votes.
PATNA: Braving the scorching Sun, a large number of voters were queuing up at polling booths in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district as voting for the by-election to Bochahan Assembly constituency got underway on Tuesday morning.
PATNA: The Pakistan government has released from its jail a man from Bihar's Buxar district, 12 years after he accidentally strayed into the neighbouring country, a police official said.
PATNA: Three girls died, while as many are battling for their lives after all six of them consumed poison at a village in Bihar's Aurangabad district, an official said on Saturday.
PATNA: A gang of thieves managed to steal a 60-feet defunct iron bridge in Bihar's Rohtas district in broad daylight - and with the help of unwitting local officials and villagers, an official said.
PATNA: After the attack on Nitish Kumar in Bakhtiyarpur recently, Bihar police have prepared a blueprint to enhance the security of the chief minister, an official said.
PATNA: Siwan police has registered an FIR against eight persons, including Osama Sahab -- the son of Late Baahubali leader Mohammad Shahabuddin -- following the attack on MLC candidate Bahubali Rais Khan on Monday.
MUZAFFARNAGAR: Pooja (name changed) was a home science graduate student from Muzaffarpur, Bihar. The 18-year-old had high hopes for her life, before the pandemic took a toll on her education - as it did on the lives of millions the world over.
PATNA: Several NDA legislators and some Opposition leaders in Bihar watched 'The Kashmir Files' movie in a multiplex in Patna on Monday evening.
PATNA: At least seven persons received minor injuries when a low intensity bomb exploded in Bihar's Lakhisarai district on Monday morning.
PATNA:After the inclusion of three MLAs of Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) in BJP, the state president of Bihar BJP Sanjay Jaiswal on Sunday said that the party will take action against VIP president Mukesh Sahani, who is Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Minister in the state.
PATNA: A minor girl was allegedly gang-raped repeatedly for three days by five youths in Bihar's Supaul district, a police official said on Saturday.
PATNA:A youth, lodged in the district prison in Bihar's Nawada after a case of murder was slapped on him, has cracked the IIT Joint Entrance Test for Masters.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Bihar government to file the action taken report in the Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual assault case.
PATNA: Deaths due to consumption of spurious liquor continue in Bihar. According to an official of Bihar police, so far 37 persons have died after consuming spurious liquor in the three districts of Bihar since the day of Holi.
PATNA: The Bihar Intermediate Education Council (BIEC) on Wednesday announced the results of Class XII in arts, science and commerce streams. In all the three streams, boys have performed better than girls.
PATNA: Some 12 people were injured after students from the Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) in Bihar set fire to four shops, two cars and a bike following a clash with employees of a store.
BAREILLY: Six labourers on-board the Bihar-bound Jannayak Express train were found unconscious at Bareilly junction.
PATNA: The home department of Bihar government has issued show cause notices to 71 IPS officers for failing to submit lists of their movable and immovable assets.
PATNA: The Supreme Court of India has given notice to the Bihar government and asked it to reply why S.K. Singhal has been appointed as the Director General of Police (DGP). Singhal is an officiating DGP of the state.
PATNA: A woman was killed by her in-laws over dowry in Sitamarhi district of Bihar, an official said on Monday.
PATNA: At least seven persons were killed and seven others injured following a powerful explosion in a house in Bihar's Bhagalpur district, police said on Friday.
PATNA: A teenage girl was allegedly beaten to death by her boyfriend in Bihar's Nawada district, police said on Wednesday.
PATNA:The Nitish Kumar government's clean image has suffered a jolt after senior RJD leader Bhai Virendra on Wednesday alleged that more than 1,800 contractors associated with the rural development projects did not make GST payment to the government.
PATNA: A 12-year-boy was shot at by his uncle in Bihar's Araria district on Tuesday. After being rushed to the local primary health centre, the boy has been referred to Purnea for further treatment.
PATNA: The Bihar Assembly on Monday witnessed a ruckus with opposition members demanding strict action against BJP MLA Hari Bhushan Thakur over his remark against the Muslim community.
PATNA: A medical student from Bihar has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to immediately evacuate him and other students from war-torn Ukraine as they feel that their lives are in danger.
PATNA: After action against police officials in Bihar, now 42 sand mafias of five districts have come under the scanner of the Economic Offences Wing (EOW).
PATNA:head of the Budget session in Bihar, the opposition parties have prepared a list of issues to corner the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government.
PATNA: A jeweller was gunned down by unidentified persons in Bihar's Sitamarhi district, said the police on Tuesday.
PATNA: A burqa-clad girl in Bihar's Begusarai district was stopped from making transactions in a nationalised bank, an official said.
PATNA:A man has been arrested on the charge of smuggling 1,000 live cartridges from Rajauli integrated check-post in Bihar's Nawada district on Sunday, the police said.
PATNA: Three coaches of New Delhi-bound Swatantrata Senani Express were gutted in a fire at Madhubani railway station on Saturday morning.
PATNA: A woman was raped in front of her husband in Bihar's Saran district, an official said. The incident came to light when a video of the incident went viral on social media. Saran SP Santosh Kumar, has ordered an inquiry.
NEW DELHI: Amid talks of change in party organization in the state, Congress leaders and MLAs from Bihar were called to Delhi to meet Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday. The Congress is contemplating a change in leadership in the state after party fared badly in the last year's assembly elections.
PATNA: Two residents of Patna's Patel Nagar area on Friday levelled a land grab allegation against Ravi Prasad, the brother of Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Renu Devi.
PATNA: A minor girl working in an orchestra was raped by a youth in Bihar's Gopalganj district, a police official said. The police initially refused to register the FIR in this connection. The victim finally got the FIR registered in women's police station on the instruction of district SP Anand Kumar.
PATNA: The Bihar Education Department continues to figure in controversies, now with Malayalam actress Anupama Parmeshwaran shown qualifying in the State Teacher Eligibility Test (STET).
PATNA: An international criminal wanted in over a dozen cases of heinous crimes including murder, kidnapping, extortion, and bomb blasts was arrested by the Bihar Police on Thursday.
PATNA: An arrest warrant has been issued against Bihar Police DSP Kamal Kant Prasad in connection with a four-year-old rape of a minor Dalit girl, an official said.
PATNA: The relatives of a man, who died due to snakebite in Bihar's Bhagalpur district, dumped his body into the Ganga on Sunday, despite objections of the local residents.
PATNA: One person sustained burn injuries during an acid attack in Bihar's Bettiah town on Saturday.The victim, identified as Deepu Kumar, sustained 75 per cent burn injuries and was admitted in Sadar hospital, Bettiah. His condition is said to be critical.
NEW DELHI: As many as 719 doctors have died during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the latest report by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) with Bihar reporting the highest number of 111 doctors dying in the line of duty.
PATNA: Bihar Police on Wednesday busted two different sex rackets on in the state's Sheikhpura and Purnea districts. In Sheikhpura, the district police raided a hotel in Chandni Chowk and arrested a girl, found in compromising position with six youths.
PATNA: Police in Muzaffarpur have arrested three liquor mafias accused of kidnapping a young girl from a Bihar village, gang raping her and then mutilating the body before dumping it in river.
PATNA: The Bihar government has decided to delay the Panchayat elections in the state due to the Covid outbreak. The tenure of Panchayat representatives in Bihar ended on June 15 this year.
PATNA: Unidentified gunmen looted jewelleries worth Rs 8 lakh in Bihar's Jahanabad town on Monday morning. As per Covid norms, the jewellery shops are not allowed to operate during the lockdown in Bihar.
PATNA: Angry over his girlfriend getting married to someone else, a jilted lover threw acid on the bridegroom at the wedding in Bihar's Lakhisarai district, injuring him seriously, police said on Thursday.
PATNA: A woman in her early 20s was abducted and gang raped by 4 men in Bihar Saharsa district. The incident occurred on Monday night when the victim, along with her friend, was returning home from a marriage function on a motorcycle.
PATNA: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday attacked the Nitish Kumar government over the decline in number of health centres in Bihar in its 16-year-stint so far, compared to the numbers under the Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi governments of 15 years.
PATNA: The fatality rate due to Covid-19 in Bihar is a cause of worry, and many attribute it to the poor health infrastructure in the state and the ill-preparedness of the Bihar government during the second wave of the pandemic.
PATNA: A man, who lost his job in the second wave of coronavirus, abandoned his wife at Bihar's Buxar railway station on Thursday, police said.
BEGUSARAI: A man in Bihar's Begusarai district has set up a 30-oxygen bed facility in his school, converting it into a Covid care centre, following the death of his sister. The district administration has also deputed doctors and nurses in different shifts there.
PATNA: In a bid to get the anti-corona jab, villagers fought with each other, sparking a massive clash at a primary health centre of Aurangabad's Dev block in Bihar on Saturday.
PATNA: The second wave of coronavirus has taken lives of 40 nurses in Bihar so far, due to lack of basic facilities which they needed during duty in a pandemic, the Bihar Medical and Health Employee Association said on Wednesday.
PATNA: Outrage spread across Bihar after Patna police arrested four-time MP and Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) President Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav on Tuesday for allegedly violating lockdown norms, with leaders of ruling parties joining the opposition in slamming the move.
PATNA: The wife of a Covid patient, who succumbed in a private hospital in Patna on May 8, has alleged that a doctor there had molested her, while the hospital administration deliberately switched off the oxygen supply in the ICU, to force people to buy oxygen cylinders, and this caused her husband's death.
PATNA: While over three dozen unused ambulances were recovered from the office premises of BJP's Saran MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Covid patients in Bihar are struggling for ambulances to be taken to or transferred between hospitals.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held telephonic discussions with the Chief Ministers of Bihar, Karnataka, Punjab and Uttarakhand to take stock of the Covid-19 situation in their respective states, said sources.
PATNA: Bihar reported 15,126 new Covid-19 cases out of the 1,05,024 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, the state health department said on Thursday.The number of active cases in Bihar stood at 1,15,151 with a recovery rate of 78.65 per cent.
PATNA: The tension between the two major constituents of Bihar's ruling alliance intensified on Thursday, with Janata Dal-United MP Lalan Singh, who is considered close to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, attacking BJP state President Sanjay Jaiswal for "doing politics over the lockdown".
PATNA: The Bihar police and local administration have been strictly enforcing the lockdown in the state by penalising persons found violating it by imposing a fine. The Bihar government announced a complete lockdown in the state from May 5 to May 15 amid the surge in Covid-19 cases.
PATNA: When the second wave of the coronavirus started wreaking havoc, restaurants in Bihar came forward with a gesture of humanity and sensitivity. Many restaurants here started delivering free food to corona-infected patients, irrespective of their religion, caste or any other social boundary.
PATNA: To reduce the rapid surge in coronavirus infections in Bihar, the Nitish Kumar government has decided to impose a complete lockdown in the state till May 15.
PATNA: The fatality rate in coronavirus infections in Bihar is extremely high and it has especially hit hard the state's agriculture department.As many as 15 officials of the Bihar agriculture department have lost their lives due to the Covid-19 infection, including the Deputy Director of Diyara Taal Development Project, Om Prakash Singh.
PATNA: In view of the surging corona infection, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has demanded a complete lockdown of 15 days in Bihar.Dr. Sahjanand Singh, the national president of IMA, met with the heads of five prominent hospitals in Bihar. Singh said all of them unanimously felt that the situation in the state was worsening with every hour and an immediate lockdown of at least 15 days should be announced.
HAJIPUR(Bihar):An FIR has been registered agains the former MLA Munna Shukla and his wife Annu Shukla for flouting Covid norms after an alleged video of both of them has gone viral where they are seen flouting all Covid protocols at one of their family functions.
PATNA: After the death of former Bihar education minister Mewalal Chaudhary, his personal assistant has made sensational revelations about the sorry state of health infrastructure in the state.
PATNA: It was a narrow escape for JD-U MP Kavita Singh and her husband Ajay Singh in Bihar's Siwan district as security guards foiled an attack on them on Thursday night.
PATNA: Three persons allegedly linked with Maoists were arrested in Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Thursday and weapons and explosives seized from them, police said.
PATNA: Keeping in view the alarming situation in Bihar due to Covid 19, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP National President J.P. Nadda to release state health minister Mangal Pandey from the West Bengal poll campaign.
PATNA: Another 4,786 people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Bihar in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of active cases in the state to a weekly high of 23,724 -- 2.5 times higher than the cases (around 9,000) recorded last Wednesday, health officials said.