Tag: Bihar

Patna: After four rounds of counting for the 243 seats in the Bihar Assembly elections on Tuesday, 38 constituencies are witnessing a very close fight between the NDA and the Grand Alliance. There is a gap of less than 1,000 votes between the leading and the first trailing candidate in these seats. In some seats, […]

Patna: Nitish Kumar will be Bihar Chief Minister for fourth consecutive term, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) said after a meeting of its legislators in Patna today. The NDA will go to Governor Phagu Chauhan to stake claim to form the government. named Nitish Kumar as their CM, at was held at the official residence […]

Patna: Nitish Kumar will be sworn in as the Bihar chief minister for a fourth straight term and 13 ministers from NDA parties will be sworn in by Governor Phagu Chauhan here on Monday. The ceremony will be attended by the top BJP leaders including Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party president J P […]

Patna: An acid attack in Bihar’s Saran district on Sunday following a heated argument over a land dispute left 20 persons injured, including three who are their battling for life in hospital. The incident appeared in Jaitpur Takht village under Daudpur police station around 10.30 a.m. Daudpur SHO Sujeet Kumar Chaudhary said that three persons […]

Patna: Bird flu or avian influenza scare is having a big impact on poultry business in Bihar with chicken sales dipping by 50-75 per cent across the state. Kalimudin Ansari, a chicken seller at Boring Road in Patna, said that though no confirmed case of bird flu has been reported from anywhere in the state, […]

Patna: The owner-cum-principal of a private school here has been awarded death sentence by a court for raping an 11-year-old student who became pregnant and had to undergo an abortion. Although the girl survived, special POCSO judge Awadesh Kumar was of the view that the accused, Raj Singhania alias Arvind, was guilty of an offence […]

Gaya (Bihar): A joint operation launched by the Bihar police and the Army averted a major terror attack planned by the Maoists near the Chakrabandha police station area in Naxal-affected Gaya district in Bihar. The security forces recovered and disabled 83 IEDs planted on the road. A police official on Saturday said an operation was […]

Patna: A man in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district bet his wife and lost her while gambling. He then forced her to have sex with his gambler friends and poured acid on her when she refused to continue sexual relations. The 30-year-old victim refused to have sexual relations with other men after two or three times and […]