Bihar, India News

RJD president Lalu Prasad on Friday said he had committed a "big blunder" by taking Congress support for survival of the Rabri Devi government in Bihar in 2000 and backing the UPA at the Centre.

Kolkata, Feb 9 : Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday played down the absence of the chief ministers of Bihar and Jharkhand, Nitish Kumar and Shibu Soren, from a meeting here called to draw up a blueprint for inter-state operations against the Maoists.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday met the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama in this Himachal Pradesh hill station and invited him to inaugurate the Buddha Memorial Park in Patna in May, a Tibetan official said.

Patna: Angry unemployed residents of a village in Bihar's Vaishali district burnt their job cards provided under the central government's flagship employment programme to protest the failure of authorities to give them work.

The Uttar Pradesh police Monday claimed to have neutralized a major Maoist group in the state with the arrest of eight 'active members' of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist in Kanpur district and two People's Union for Civil Liberties activists on Sunday.

Feb 3, 2010: On Tuesday Katrina Kaif won herself more fans. The minute she stepped on to the stage with Bihar's chief minister Nitish Kumar at Patna's Shri Krishna Memorial Auditorium the crowds roared.

Maoists blew up railway tracks to enforce their 72-hour bandh near Rajla station on Jhaja-Jasidih section of East Central Railway in Bihar's Jamui district, officials said today.

BANGALORE: Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh admitted Saturday that a majority of chief ministers had come out against the commercialization of Bt Brinjal.

After the BJP, another NDA ally JD on Friday targeted alliance partner Shiv Sena in its current face-off with Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, saying the Sena's stand is "completely wrong." "Shah Rukh Khan has said the right thing.

February 4, 2010 Visionmp.com news service Despite Shiv Senaa s attacks on him, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi remains unfazed and will go ahead with his plan to visit Mumbai on Friday to interact with students and slum youths, reported PTI.

Political discourse hit a new low on Wednesday with Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray launching a vicious personal attack on Rahul Gandhi and saying the Congress MP was a "victim of the disease" that sets in when a person doesn't get married "despite advancing age". While the Congress hit back saying the 84-year-old Bal Thackeray was a "paper tiger" ...

Patna: Bihar once used to be the famed kingdom of Magadh. The agriculture yields were primarily good because of the prevalent traditional system of irrigation that contributed to Magadha s prosperity.

PATNA: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi launched his Mission Bihar today by declaring that Biharis were in several ways a oerunning the countrya , and reminding the Shiv Sena and Raj Thackeray that the battle for Mumbai on 26/11 was fought and won by commandos from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Mumbai/The Shiv Sena was on collision course Tuesday, taking on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.

Rahul Gandhi said: 'I am not going to remain silent and stop people of UP and Bihar from going to Maharashtra.' Unfazed by Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's attack on him, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday maintained that India is for Indians and hailed the sacrifice of NSG commandos including those from Maharashtra in 26/11 attacks.

Congress MP and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi began a two-day visit to Bihar on Monday aimed at galvanising the state unit for the assembly elections later this year.

Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad and his wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi were arrested along with dozens of party leaders in Bihar capital Patna Thursday during a dawn-to-dusk state-wide shutdown to protest rising prices of essential items.

Infighting in Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United has deepened with state party chief Rajeev Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh publicly raising the banner of revolt against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's 'autocratic style' of runing the party and the government.

New Delhi News.Net Thursday 28th January, 2010 Patna, Jan 28 The body of a businessman who was abducted Jan 20 was found here, police said Thursday.

NEW DELHI: Violence erupted against rising food prices in one of India's poorest states on Thursday, heaping more political pressure on the government to focus on inflation rather than growth and financial reform.