HC turns down CBI plea, sends Lalu notice

Friday 23 March '07

The Patna High Court today turned down the contention of the CBI that the Bihar Government did not have the right to challenge the acquittal of Railway

Coalition partners lock horns in Bihar Assembly

Friday 23 March '07

IN A major embarrassment to the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar, two members from the ruling coalition today entered into a verbal duel in the state Assembly over a corruption issue.

Twist in Lalu case: CBI now opposes Bihar govt appeal against acquittal

Thursday 22 March '07

In a new twist to the disproportionate assets case against Union Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and wife Rabri Devi, the CBI today opposed a plea by the Nitish Kumar government which challenged their acquittal.

Kerosene cut fuels APL anger against coupons

Tuesday 20 March '07

If the poor in Bihar are protesting against their names being struck off the BPL list, depriving them of benefits under a host of poverty-alleviation schemes

Jailed legislator’s home run on way back from House

Friday 16 March '07

In yet another embarrassment to the state administration, which promises to restore rule of law in Bihar

Cops don a new role, take children to school

Sunday 11 March '07

The Bihar Police have a strange albeit interesting task at hand. The state government has entrusted them with the task of getting as many children as possible to school.

Meet ‘inspirational’ Lal Muni Devi from Patna

Wednesday 7 March '07

Landless woman scripts mushroom success story, on list of top 25 Asians

Shahabuddin gets two years imprisonment

Saturday 3 March '07

A special court on Friday sentenced RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin to two years imprisonment for his involvement in an assault case.

Nitish’s coupon system for PDS faces protests

Thursday 1 March '07

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s much-applauded coupon system to streamline the Public Distribution System (PDS) for the poor has run into problems.

Strike leaves Bihar without water, power

Wednesday 28 February '07

Bihar plunged into an unprecedented power and water crisis today following a 24-hour strike called by employees

Nitish-Paswan ‘unity’ puts Lalu on notice

Friday 23 February '07

When two big politicians from disparate political combos come together and decry the efforts of another, it can only mean one thing: realignment of forces.

DA case: Bihar govt challenges Lalu’s acquittal

Tuesday 20 February '07

The Bihar government on Monday moved the Patna High Court to challenge the verdict of the CBI special court acquitting Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi in a disproportionate assets case.

Gandhi fought for truth here, now students fight for right to cheat

Tuesday 20 February '07

The state has solid credentials as a land where truth and non-violence flourished. Buddha walked...

Allow unfair means: Students resort to violence in Bihar

Friday 16 February '07

Students and their parents in Bihar are up in arms to secure the right to use unfair means in examinations...

Poverty and crime throw Bihar kids to ransom gangs, labour agents

Wednesday 7 February '07

On November 14 last year, 13-year-old Deepak Kumar, son of a railway employee, set out from home but never reached school.

Year on, RAF cop still looking for son

Saturday 27 January '07

Despite having knocked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s door six times at his weekly Janta Darbar and visiting senior...

Bihar MLC ‘abducts’ two for colliding with his car

Thursday 25 January '07

A ruling party leader and member of Bihar’s Legislative Council displayed his might in full public view today. MLC Aslam Azad and his men “abducted” two youths after their motorcycle collided with his car.

In new-look Bihar, herbs take over cowsheds at 1 Anne Marg

Thursday 25 January '07

It's been over a year since the change of regime took place in Bihar. The change is nowhere more visible than at 1, Anne Marg, the official residence of its chief minister.

Man refuses to bribe cop, dies in custody

Wednesday 24 January '07

A man in Madhepura district of Bihar died in police custody after allegedly being beaten up for refusing to pay a bribe.

Two killed, Bihar road work at a standstill

Tuesday 23 January '07

The construction of state roads in Madhepura and Purnea districts of north Bihar has come to a halt as contractors have refused to work in protest against the killing of employees of a company last Friday.

Post-meet, little investment, but Bihar and Nitish high on hope

Monday 22 January '07

The three-day-long ‘global meet for a resurgent Bihar’ that came to an end on Sunday...

Kalam opens Bihar summit

Saturday 20 January '07

President APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday inaugurated the three-day Global Bihar Meet with a clarion call to turn Bihar into a developed state by 2015.

Two kids abducted day before meet

Friday 19 January '07

A day ahead of the global meet in Patna, two schoolchildren were lifted at gunpoint by criminals from Begusarai town. Ashish, 7, and his brother Khuswant

President to inaugurate Patna global meet today

Friday 19 January '07

With an aim to showcase a “resurgent Bihar” as an investment destination, the three-day ‘Global Meet’ will begin on Friday.

Bihar may appeal against Lalu’s acquittal

Friday 19 January '07

The Bihar government may move the high court against the acquittal of railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and wife Rabri Devi in the disproportionate assets case—an offshoot of the fodder scam—by a CBI special court if it accepts the recommendation of advocate general PK Shahi.