Patna: Two extortionists were lynched in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district on Monday. Sitamarhi Superintendent of Police Sujeet Kumar confirmed the incident. He said the accused were local goons and they were lynched by villagers. The incident took place in Mayorva village between 11 a.m. to 11.30 am on Monday. “The accused identified as Sonu Paswan and Suraj […]
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Teenager gang-raped in presence of younger sibling in Bihar
Patna: A 16-year-old girl, returning from a household chore, was allegedly waylaid and gang raped by three known persons in Bihar’s Rohtas district, police said on Monday. The crime was committed in Rohtas’ Dehri-on-Sone locality on December 23 but was reported to police only on Friday, Dehri SDPO Sanjay Kumar said. “We have registered an FIR […]
Tej Pratap: After Arunachal, JD(U) will break in Bihar as well
Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and former Bihar health minister Tej Pratap Yadav on Saturday predicted that the Janata Dal (United) will soon disintegrate in the state. The soon of RJD chief Lalu Prasad said on Saturday: “The decline of JD (U) is now certain. It has begun in Arunachal Pradesh and soon it will disintegrate […]
Elections might happen in Bihar again, says Tejashwi
Patna: Former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, during a review meeting held on Monday to analyse the reasons behind defeat in the recently held Assembly elections, said that elections might happen in Bihar again in 2021, so we should be ready for it. Dubbing the BJP-JD(U) alliance temporary, […]
Bharat Bandh affects normal life in Bihar
Patna (2 Min Read): Supporters of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) and the Left parties participated in a massive protest march in Patna on Tuesday, in support of the nationwide Bharat Bandh call given by farmers. Besides, there were also reports of some disturbances and disruptions in parts of Bihar. The […]
Migrant labourer’s son from Bihar village wins gold medal at IIT-Roorkee
Patna (2 Min Read): Rahul Kumar, 22, the son of a migrant worker from Sosandi, a nondescript village in Bihar’s Nalanda district, has graduated from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, one of the premier educational institutes in the country. Kumar’s 52-year-old father Sunil Singh works on a power loom in Surat on a daily wage […]
Jilted lover pours super glue into new bride’s eye, chops off her hair
Patna: There’s no fury greater on earth than woman scorned. Angry over her lover choosing another for his wife, a girl in Bihar’s Nalanda district poured Fevi kwik, a super glue, into the eyes of the new bride after chopping off her hair. The incident was reported late Tuesday, Mohamad Shibli Nomani, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) […]
MLA Lalan Paswan lodges FIR with vigilance dept against Lalu Prasad
Patna: Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Pirpaiti in Bhagalpur district Lalan Paswan lodged an FIR with the vigilance department in Patna on Thursday afternoon in connection with tape-gate. Paswan claims that Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad called him from Ranchi on Tuesday evening and asked him to remain absent during […]
Bihar’s ‘tainted’ Education Minister resigns within hours of assuming office
Patna: Newly-appointed Bihar Education Minister Mewalal Choudhary, allegedly facing corruption charges in the recruitment of assistant professors and scientists, has resigned hours after assuming his new office on Thursday. He was sworn in as a cabinet minister just a few days ago along with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Choudhary had met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on […]
Nitish under fire for appointing tainted MLA as education minister
Patna: JDU leader Mewalal Choudhary, allegedly facing corruption charges in the recruitment of assistant professors and scientists, has become Bihar’s new education minister in the newly formed government. The move is turning out to be a self-goal for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the NDA, too, appears to be on the backfoot. They are keeping mum […]