Yes, PCs have come but where’s the Internet, where are the teachers?

Sunday 26 November '06

That’s what change does in a Bihar village used to despair. A computer centre with 3 terminals doesn’t sound much but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar brought these here under his flagship scheme. Plugging the villagers into hope — and increasing impatience over no power, no midday meal, no teachers

At Nalanda, reviving Chinese connection

Sunday 19 November '06

After 35 days on a 12,000-km journey across six countries, a Chinese delegation reached here to signal another shift from the past: revival of ties with ancient Nalanda that had been snapped after the 1962 war.

Jailed MLA makes ‘beauty stop’ on way back from court

Thursday 16 November '06

In an embarrassment to the Bihar government, a former MLA, lodged in Beur jail, was caught on camera roaming outside the jail premises today.

Bihar surprise: Minister’s family in fresh BPL list

Tuesday 14 November '06

The new below poverty line list being prepared by the Bihar government has a VIP family on it — that of Bihar’s Rural Development Minister Vaidyanath Mahto.

Patna admn unleashes eunuchs on tax evaders

Thursday 9 November '06

Eunuchs have come to the aid of cash-strapped Patna Municipal Corporation...

Patna admn unleashes eunuchs on tax evaders

Friday 9 January '04

Eunuchs have come to the aid of cash-strapped Patna Municipal Corporation. After all its efforts failed, the PMC has turned to eunuchs to compel property tax evaders to pay their dues.

ADG cries abuse by constable, says union clout to blame

Friday 3 November '06

A written complaint by an Additional Director General rank police officer alleging harassment by a constable has brought into focus police unions in Bihar.

Booked RJD leader defends himself

Saturday 28 October '06

As expected the Bihar government today lodged a case against former RJD minister Jagdanand Singh...

Man accused of rape bid sentenced in just a day

Friday 20 October '06

The Sasaram District and Sessions Court on Thursday created the record for the fastest-ever trial in the country when it sentenced a man to five years rigorous imprisonment for trying to rape a minor girl.

Vigilance in overdrive, Jha sent to custody

Sunday 15 October '06

It was around 10.30 on Friday night when Madhepura District Magistrate Hem Chandra Jha, arrested with Rs 1.90 lakh bribe money...

Lalu carries Jharkhand victory to homeland

Saturday 16 September '06

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Friday carried the Jharkhand victory to Bihar...

Fuming Fernandes says Nitish, Sharad are autocrats

Saturday 9 September '06

An angry man these days, Janata Dal MP and former party president George Fernandes is lashing out at his own party...

Not against song, but Bihar madarsas ‘shut for festival’

Friday 8 September '06

The government mada--rsa at Maner, located on the premises of Patna’s Jama mosque, stood locked on Thursday.

In Bihar, BJP silent on singing Vande Mataram in schools; says being in government is ‘different’

Tuesday 5 September '06

Despite the BJP making a hue and cry at the national level over the singing of Vande Mataram, its Bihar unit...

Dalit stabbed in eye after brawl over toddy

Thursday 24 August '06

Lying in a Patna hospital, 50-year-old Dalit Bhola Chowdhury starts shivering when asked to name those who stabbed him in the eye.

Fourth ‘suspect’ in Gaya lock-up is newly wed Mysore madarsa teacher

Saturday 22 July '06

The “third” man from Bihar under the police scanner in connection with the Mumbai blasts sits in the lock-up of Gaya’s Rampur police station.

Behind the Bodhi scar, a tussle for power

Saturday 22 July '06

The ‘fresh’ scar on a branch of the sacred Bodhi Tree stood out clearly even as government officials...

Sweet news for Bihar, more sugar units on way

Friday 14 July '06

In what is certain to be sweet music to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s ears, three sugar majors have made proposals to set up sugar units in investment-starved Bihar.

Bajrang Bali to GQ’s rescue in Bihar

Sunday 2 July '06

Mounted on the front of an earthmoving machine working on a bridge across the Sone, part of the Delhi-Kolkata Golden Quadrilateral, is a small idol of Lord Hanuman.

Bihar village ostracises deaf & dumb rape victim, accused uncle in hiding

Sunday 25 June '06

Husband working in Surat rejects ‘impure’ wife; 22-yr-old & children await justice as clerics says law doesn’t count

Double bonanza for Bihar: Hunt begins for N-plant site, oil & gas

Thursday 8 June '06

In a double bonanza for the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar, the Power Ministry decided to send a team to select a site and prepare a feasibility...

Bihar officials in a spot over sanctuary land

Monday 5 June '06

Some of Bihar’s top bureaucrats, including Chief Secretary G S Kang, could face contempt charges in the matter of diversion of forest sanctuary land, through a notification, for the Durgawati Reservoir Project.

In Patna, retd DIG overpowers train robber before he’s killed

Monday 5 June '06

Train robbers shot dead a retired DIG of Bihar police who put up a fight and captured one of them on the Patna-Kurla Superfast Express in Patna

Nitish to announce power plans today

Monday 29 May '06

A joint venture between the National Thermal Power Corporation and the Bihar State Electricity Board to revive the Kanti Thermal Power Plant

On poll eve, six killed in Sheikhpura

Sunday 21 May '06

At least six persons, including two children, were reportedly killed and two others seriously injured in Manipur village of Bihar’s Sheikhpura district on Saturday night.