The central government is looking to give Bihar the status of 'special state' before the 2014 general elections. The Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar conducted rallies in Bihar demanding the special status tag for the state. Once Bihar receives this status it woul...
With the 2014 general elections in mind, political parties are looking to forge new alliances. Conferring special status on Bihar and a few other backward states is being looked at as a political move for future alliances in the political arena.
Home ministry is getting ready to confer Bihar with the status of a special state. If Bihar receives this status, it would be seen as the victory of the state's chief minister, Nitish Kumar. The chief minister conducted rallies both in the state as well as the...
The central government will soon confer the special state status on Bihar, says a report in an English newspaper. The status is being considered as a major victory for the state's Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar. According to some sources, Congress is eager to pa...
The students of the Sheikhpura Government School in Bihar protest the delay and partiality on the part of authorities while distributing cycles and scholarship. While the children were protesting, the security guards were getting ready to open fire to disperse...
The stampede at a ghat in Patna during the Chhath puja led to disturbances across the city. Angry locals protested the inadequate arrangements at the hospital and at the ghat where people had come to offer prayers to the setting Sun as part of Chhath puja. Pol...
It has been almost 45 days since 12-year-old Navruna Chakravarty was abducted from her home in Muzzafarpur in Bihar. Despite protests by her family and friends, the police have failed to make any headway in the case so far. The case has now taken a political t...
Watch how Sonia backfired at the BJP, Lalu slammed Nitish's government in Bihar, women filed petition against Jaiswal for sexist comments and how a train escaped an accident in spite of its bogie cutting loose from the engine.
The Janta Dal (United)'s announcement that its leaders Nitish Kumar and party president Sharad Yadav would canvass for party candidates in the coming Assembly elections in Gujarat could well mean a confrontation with the BJP's Narendra Modi. The campaign will ...
It is too much, says Lalu Prasad Yadav in his typical style on Uddhav Thackeray's statement in Samna newspaper on permit for Biharis in Mumbai. Thackeray had written that if the Bihar government feels that its permission is required to arrest those involved in...
In the wake of a series of attacks and counter attacks by the leaders from Bihar and Maharashtra over the issue of Biharis caught in August 11 violence and their alleged harassment, the Union Home Ministry has issued an advisory to the Maharashtra government t...
The Centre asks Maharashtra government to ensure the safety of everyone in the state following the threats issued by the Shiv Sena and MNS. It has asked what measures have been taken to contain the hate politics being played out by MNS and Shiv Sena. It has al...
Following MNS chief Raj Thackeray's remark that branded Biharis in Mumbai as infiltrators, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray says if the Mumbai police need Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's permission before arresting a Bihari youth involved in the Azad Maida...
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has hit out at MNS chief Raj Thackeray over his anti-Bihari rant saying that Raj is indulging in anti-Bihar tirade and it is a matter of shame for the Maharashtra government.
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar hits out at the Centre and says that the State was not responsible for the power shutdown. Bihar has been drawing lesser than the quota and that the Centre should stop blaming States. A major power meltdown at the North, East, and North E...
25-year-old Pritam Bhattacharjee's death is causing massive outrage across the nation as the authorities continue to show their apathy and indifference even 12 days after the murder. Thus far, there has been no breakthrough into the case. Apart from the suspen...
It's been five days since 26-year-old Pritam Bhattacharjee was found murdered on a Delhi-bound train, but the authorities continue to pass the buck. While Pritam's family holds a silent protest and a candle-light march demanding justice, the Bihar Government a...
It's been over 90 hours since Pritam Bhattacharjee was beaten up by goons and pummelled to death on a Delhi-bound train, but no action has been taken yet. The shocking truth of the matter is that the Bihar government and the Railway Ministry are entangled in a...
Over a week has passed since Pritam, a 26-year-old man, was murdered, but no action has been taken yet. He was found butchered around nine kilometres from the point he was said to have gone missing. To make matters worse, the Railway Minister Mukul Roy has beg...
The JDU's strident objections to promoting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 elections threatens to split the alliance.
The Nitish Kumar-led JDU has reacted sharply to the RSS endorsement of Narendra Modi as a possible Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 elections, saying its secular credentials were not negotiable.
The JDU chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was not acceptable as the NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections.
Even as Opposition parties talk increasingly about mid-term polls, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose JD (U) is part of the NDA, says they may not happen
Loopholes emerge in the Chennai encounter that resulted in the death of five bank robbery suspects, while in Karnataka, former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa's show of strength worries the BJP.
Bihar's industries minister's husband is booked under the SC/ST Act for assaulting dalit women, who were demanding shelters as their houses were destroyed in the 2008 flood.