Sasaram, India News

Published: July 3,2009 Sasaram , Jul 3 A Maoist, wanted in connection with the killing of two police officials, was arrested in Bihar&aposs Rohtas district today.

Six members of proscribed CPI outfit were today arrested in Rohtas district. Acting on a tip-off that some Naxalites were hiding in a house in new area locality of Sasaram town in the district, a police team cordoned the area and arrested the extremists, SP Vikash Vaibhav said.

Patna, June 4: Patna High Court today allowed the newly elected Palamau MP, Kameshwar Baitha , to travel to New Delhi for his oath-taking ceremony in Lok Sabha with police escort.

PATNA: The Patna High Court on Thursday allowed a newly-elected undertrial Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Member of Parliament to go to New Delhi with police escorts to attend the special session of Lok Sabha for taking oath.

Patna, June 2: She might be a five-time Lok Sabha member and a Union cabinet minister, but in Bihar she is 'Babu ji ki beti'. Jagjivan Ram, Meira Kumar's father, was revered as Babu ji by Sasaram voters, a seat that she now represents.

NEW DELHI: Meira Kumar, who is set to become the first woman speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's parliament, is a former diplomat who left the foreign service to fight the cause of Dalits.

New Delhi: History was scripted on Wednesday as senior Congress leader Meira Kumar was unanimously elected as Lok Sabha Speaker to become the first woman to hold the top Constitutional post.

A senior Congress leader and five-time MP, Mrs Kumar, 64, pledged immediately after assuming her chair as Lok Sabha Speaker that she will leave no stone unturned in discharging her duty to uphold the Constitution with impartiality, ensure a fruitful and smooth functioning of the House, and maintain the dignity of the House and its members.

From being a foreign service officer to a five-term MP and then a Cabinet minister, Meera Kumar has traversed a long way and a varied course that will come in handy to her in running the Lok Sabha that often throws itself into scenes of tumult.

New Delhi Meira Kumar, who has resigned as Union Minister for Water Resources, on Monday said she has been nominated for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker by the UPA.

Congress MP from Sasaram andA and daughter of late Jagjivan RamA Meira Kumar has emerged as the front-runner for the Lok Sabha Speaker's post.

A The Union Council of Ministers was expanded on Thursday with the induction of 59 ministers.

New Delhi : In view of the summer rush, Northern Railways has decided to run a weekly special train between Delhi and Gaya with limited stoppages for a month till June 26.

While security forces in India have been focusing on the threat of terror attacks during the general elections, the violence has been from another front - Naxalites, India's indigenous brand of leftist radicals.

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati's magic of cornering the combined votes of Dalits and Brahmins on the lines of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections did not click in Bihar as the voters outrightly rejected the party.

He had earlier contested the elections on BSP ticket in 2007. He was then stationed in a Daltonganj jail.

A Winners of Lok Sabha polls from Bihar and Jharkhand fear under-representation in the union cabinet as the Congress has won just three seats in the two states that together send 54 MPs to the Lok Sabha.

Officials in the state tourism department said the surroundings of the tomb, in the emperor's home town, would be beautified; plus a luxury hotel, cafeteria and guest house would be built to attract tourists.

Patna, May 16: Of the 47 women contestants only four were successful to make their entry into the 15th Lok sabha from Bihar.

Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad is leading from Saran, while his ally Lok Janshakti Party chief Ramvilas Paswan is trailing from Hajipur, as Bihar's ruling National Democratic Alliance appears set for major gains with Janata Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ] together leading in 20 of the 25 seats trends of which are available ...