

Thursday 18 January '07
A convict lodged in Purnea jail was burnt with cigarette butts and his private parts were wounded with blade.Tuesday 16 January '07
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today came down heavily on the Centre charging it of trying to put on the back-burner the four-laning of 890 km of state’s roads under the National Highway Development Programme (NHDP) and building of state highways.Saturday
13 January '07The show was put together with zest for the Chinese guests. They came, all 125 of them, and sat for a viewing of Buddhism: A Spiritual Journey, produced by the Bihar Tourism Department.Friday
12 January '07In an incident that has sent shock waves through the state and has given the Nitish Kumar government a jolt, the skeleton and clothes of a class eight studentFriday
12 January '07Bihar is gearing up to present itself in a new avatar at a global meet to be held in Patna between January 19 and 21. This first-of-its-kind gathering has gained further importance with President APJ Abdul Kalam extending his verbal consent to inaugurate the meet.Friday
12 January '07The state’s continuing inability to hold back its professionals as well as its daily wage labourers presents its government with its most formidable challengeThursday
11 January '07For a price, cellphone owners are connecting worried families in Bihar villages to kin working elsewhereWednesday
10 January '07Politicking over the massacre of Bihari’s in Assam gained momentum on Tuesday as hundreds of terror-struck labourers continued to return home from the northeastern state.Tuesday
9 January '07Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said today that of those killed in Assam, 51 are from Bihar and only four of them have been identified as migrant workers...Saturday
6 January '07It's great news for investment and power-starved Bihar. Tamil Nadu-based Indian Gasohol Ltd has proposed to set up 10 mega ethanol plants across north and south Bihar, investing a whopping Rs 13,557 crore.Friday
5 January '07The Opposition in Bihar — mainly comprising RJD, Congress and Samata Party — has decided to file a case against ministers and officials concerned under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the allotment of land to filmmaker Prakash Jha. The Patna High Court has already quashed the allotment order.Monday
1 January '07The New Year promises to be really sweet for a village trapped in darkness for a decade.Friday
29 December '06Anju Kumari, wife of 7/11 victim Krishna Kumar, continued her dharna and fast in Patna on the second day today even as the state administration expressed its helplessness in getting her house...Thursday
28 December '06When you turn this page, you’ll see on page 2 the story of Krishna Kumar Parasnath, a 37-year-old bank executive who died, like 186 others, on Mumbai’s 7/11.Wednesday
27 December '06Lalita Devi, the mukhiya of Basanta Jahanabad Panchayat in Vaishali district of Bihar may have to pay dearly for a criminal offence in her village.Friday
22 December '06Two instances of the accused escaping from police custody, all three accused alleging that the CBI coerced them to own up to the murder...Tuesday
19 December '06The Patna High Court today quashed allotment of land made by the state Government to noted film-maker Prakash Jha, for building a chain of multiplexes across different towns of Bihar.Monday
18 December '06Monday could be yet another decisive day in the political life of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav...Sunday
17 December '06Satyendra Dubey’s younger brother Dhananjay Dubey has decided to file a special appeal in the trial court of Patna...Sunday
17 December '06Bihar Police on Saturday claimed to have cracked the murder mystery of professor Papia Ghosh. It has arrested four youths, recovered most of the goods looted from her house...Tuesday
12 December '06Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, while sidelining the demand for a CBI probe into the murder of noted professor of History Dr Papia Ghosh and her maid, today opined that the CBI does not have the expertise to solve murder cases.Sunday
10 December '06The Bihar Police today said the security concerns expressed by the company associated with the Golden Quadrilateral road project...Friday
8 December '06A supervisor of a company engaged in the Golden Quadrilateral project was lynched to death even as three labourers were killed...Sunday
3 December '06Lalu gets news in Katihar, a 3-hr drive from the site, but leaves for Manihari...Sunday
3 December '06Old overbridge at Bhagalpur station was being dismantled; minister says ‘criminal case’ against guilty officials