Bihar, India News

PATNA: Denouncing the reported anti-Bihari remarks by a Goa minister, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday demanded an unqualified apology from him for having hurt the sensibilities of the people of ...

The new Indian Institute of Technology-Patna where classes began on a temporary premises Aug 7, has been hit hard by waterlogging.

Patna, Aug 20: A Goa minister's remark that there will be more beggars in the coastal state if trains linking it to Patna are introduced triggered an outrage in Bihar today with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ...

The 54-year-old former guerrilla chief who on Monday took oath of office and secrecy in the name of the people, instead of god, strode into the prime minister's office in Singh Durbar, the heart of Nepal's ...

October 1999: Seizes power in a bloodless military coup, overthrowing the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif.

Munger : Five pilgrims were killed and nine others injured when the jeep carrying them collided head-on with a bus in Bihar's Munger district, police said on Monday.

Six new engineering colleges are expected to be set up in Bihar from the 2008-09 academic session under an action plan to have several new engineering colleges by the end of next year.

Patna, Aug 14 : After Jharkhand, it is now the turn of thousands of farmers in rural Bihar to swing to the tunes of the community radio station.

Two sisters Akanksha and Ankita Pandey in the Bihar capital did not celebrate Raksha Bandhan Saturday, for the second consecutive year, as there is no trace of their abducted brother Akash.

Hospet , Aug 13 On the spur of the moment, union railways minister Lalu Prasad Wednesday announced that a Garib Rath would be run from Hospet in north Karnataka, close to the world heritage site of Hampi ruins, ...

Patna, Aug 14: A man accused of murder committed suicide in a Bihar court when he was brought there for a hearing Thursday, police sources said.

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad rejected as "baseless and malicious" charges that he had provided jobs in the railways to persons who had allegedly gifted land and buildings to him and his family members.

The following is the chronology in the murder case of 59-year-old Australian tourist Dawn Emilie Griggs: March 17, 2004: Griggs, who came to India from Hong Kong to enroll herself in a meditation course, is ...

Patna, August 11: Enthused by Sonia Gandhi's reported missive to chief ministers of the Congress-ruled states to adopt the 'Bihar model' for RTI call centres, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar claimed that Bihar was ...

Patna : The General Manager of the East Central Railway, Girish Bhatnagar, said on Sunday that all the railway projects announced for Bihar would be completed by 2011.

New Delhi, August 10: After hardselling Amarnath as the party's new-found symbol of "territorial integrity and cultural nationalism," BJP's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani on Sunday claimed that "those ...

Rat meat may soon be available in hotels as a delicacy. Rat farming, akin to rearing poultry, would be given to the poor Musahar community of Bihar as a means for their socio-economic upliftment as well as ...

Patna: Forty one labourers were killed and over two dozen injured in Bihar's Lakhisarai district when a rice laden truck overturned and fell into a river.

Jailed former Lok Sabha MP and Janata Dal-United leader Anand Mohan Singh, sentenced to death last year for the murder of Gopalganj district magistrate G. Krishnaiah in 1994, has decided to donate his body ...

Patna' Aug 4 Jailed Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin has allegedly abused and threatened a Bihar jail officer for not signing a letter seeking his favour.