Tag: Bihar

Patna: When the entire country was busy remembering the brave soldiers on Kargil Vijay Diwas, a 25-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl onboard an NDRF rescue boat in Bihar’s flood-hit East Champaran district on Sunday afternoon during an evacuation operation. The girl was born at around 1.40 p.m. on the rescue boat of […]

New Delhi: Intense rainfall is predicted in Mumbai and other areas on the west coast and in peninsular India during the next three days as the monsoon is likely to strengthen over the Arabian Sea, weather forecasting agencies said on Sunday. A low-pressure area is likely to develop over north Bay of Bengal and move […]

Patna: In a major development, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has recommended CBI probe in the mysterious death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, after SSR’s family formally requested for the same. Bihar CM said that he has asked the Bihar DGP to initiate recommendations for a CBI probe in the case. Speaking to Republic […]

Patna: Reminding once again what a lone determined person can do if he sets out to achieve what he has aimed for, a man in Bihar’s Gaya district has dug up a 5-km-long canal in 20 years to bring irrigation water to the fields in his village. The feat of Loungi Bhuiyan, a resident of […]

Patna: A case has come to light at Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) where a living person infected with Covid-19 was declared dead and a death certificate issued to his…

New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Friday and announced the dates for the Bihar Legislative Assembly elections which will be held in three phases. The first phase of polling for the 243 member House will be held on October 28, while the second and third phase will be held on November 3 and […]

New Delhi: Over 50 per cent voters in Bihar want to change the government when the state goes to the polls next month, as per the IANS C-Voter Bihar opinion poll survey. As per the survey, as many as 56.7 per cent of voters are ‘unhappy’ with the government and want a change, while 29.8 […]

Patna: The impact of the Hathras case is being felt even on the Bihar assembly elections with the Congress postponing the announcement of its list of candidates for the upcoming polls with some of its prominent leaders asserting that tickets should not be given to tainted candidates. The Congress election committee is yet to release […]

Sasaram: Taking a swipe at the opposition alliance in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday invoked the alleged poor law and order in the state under RJD rule, and said people have decided that those who have a history of making Bihar ‘Bimaru’ will not be allowed to return. Modi began his first Bihar […]

Munger (Bihar): An angry mob on Thursday vandalised the office of the Superintendent of Police and attacked a police station in Munger district of Bihar. Meanwhile, the Election Commission has ordered the removal of District Magistrate Rajesh Meena and Superintendent of Police Lipi Singh in view of the situation in Munger. The investigation into the […]

Forbesganj: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed the opposition parties saying they only learnt to “divide” society and win irrespective of anything else. He said while the NDA government ensured fulfilment of all basic facilities in Bihar during its last tenure, it will now fulfil all “aspirations” of the people if elected to power. […]

New Delhi: The 94 assembly constituencies that went to poll in the phase two of Bihar elections on Tuesday recorded 53.51 per cent turnout and the figure was likely to go up as voting continued beyond schedule in several places, the Election Commission said. The combined voter turnout in the two phases was recorded at […]

Patna: Polling is underway in 78 assembly segments of Bihar in the third and final phase of state elections on Saturday in which 2.35 crore voters are eligible to decide the fate of 1,204 candidates. Casting of votes began at 7 am at all 33,782 polling stations where as many EVM sets and VVPAT machines […]

Patna: Five rounds were fired at a polling booth in Dhamdaha in Purnea district even as 19.74 per cent voting was registered in 78 Assembly segments in the first four hours on Saturday, official sources said. The firing incident was triggered after heated arguments between villagers and security forces who allegedly beat up voters for […]

New Delhi: According to early trends on Tuesday as counting entered more than an hour across Bihar for the 243-seat Assembly seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading on eight out of 20 seats counted so far, with the opposition trailing. The results are mostly from counting of the postal ballots and EVMs simultaneously […]