Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj Party fails to open account in Bihar by-poll
Nov 25, 2024, at 02:50 am
Patna: Prashant Kishor vowed to continue his efforts to boost the vote share of his Jan Suraaj Party to 40%, asserting his determination to achieve the target despite poor debut in the Bihar Assembly by-polls, media reports said.
PM Modi returns to Delhi on IAF chopper after his aircraft suffers technical snag in Jharkhand
Nov 16, 2024, at 03:02 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to Delhi from Jharkhand on an Indian Air Force Plane Friday afternoon after his aircraft suffered a technical snag in Deoghar.
Bihar's Purnia MP Pappu Yadav receives another threat from Lawrence Bishnoi gang
Nov 09, 2024, at 05:17 pm
Patna/IBNS: Pappu Yadav, the Lok Sabha MP from Bihar's Purnia, has received yet another threat from the group of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, media reports said.
Prashant Kishor faces criticism over criminal backgrounds of his party candidates in Bihar bypoll
Nov 03, 2024, at 05:32 am
Patna: As political tensions rise in Bihar ahead of the November 13 by-elections for four Assembly seats, all eyes are on the candidates nominated by various parties, including the new Jan Suraaj Party, led by political strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor, media reports said.
Oct 03, 2024, at 02:35 am
Patna/IBNS: Former election strategist Prashant Kishor formally launched his Jan Suraaj group as a political party on Wednesday marking an entry into electoral politics.
Giriraj Singh, Chirag Paswan slam Mamata after Bihar students appearing for Bengal exams assaulted
Sep 27, 2024, at 05:51 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Two students from Bihar, who reached West Bengal to participate in an examination meant for recruitment, were assaulted by two men for taking part in a test outside their state, media reports said.
46 drown, including 37 children, during 'Jivitputrika' festival in Bihar
Sep 27, 2024, at 12:59 am
Patna: As many as 46 people, including 37 children, lost their lives and three others went missing while taking holy dips in various water bodies in separate incidents during the 'Jivitputrika' festival in Bihar, media reports said.
Train engine derails, veers into field in Bihar's Gaya
Sep 15, 2024, at 08:00 pm
Gaya (Bihar): A train engine was spotted in the middle of a field in Bihar’s Gaya, leaving people surprised and wondering how it managed to leave the tracks and reach the field, media reports said.
Sep 13, 2024, at 10:19 pm
A gangrape attempt was made on a nurse at a private hospital in Bihar at a time when the country is boiling over the rape and murder of a medic in a state-run hospital in Kolkata last month.
Bihar teen dies after fake doctor operates on him watching YouTube videos
Sep 08, 2024, at 06:22 pm
Patna/IBNS: A teenage boy has died in Bihar's Saran after a fake doctor allegedly performed surgery to remove a stone from his gall bladder by merely relying on YouTube videos, media reports said.
Aug 30, 2024, at 03:42 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MP Shambhavi Choudhary slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her remarks on "Bihar will burn too if West Bengal burns."
'Bihar was Switzerland to him six months ago, now a gutter': Prashant Kishor's dig at Tejashwi Yadav
Aug 26, 2024, at 05:11 pm
Patna/IBNS: Former political strategist and an aspiring politician Prashant Kishor has taken a dig at Rashtriya Janata Dal top leader Tejashwi Yadav who claimed Bihar was lagging behind in key areas of development despite the "double engine" government run by Janata Dal (United) and Bharatiya Janata Party.
Mob tries to set ablaze school bus with children on board during Bharat Bandh in Bihar's Gopalganj
Aug 22, 2024, at 05:38 am
Gopalganj/IBNS: A school bus with several children on board was saved from a potentially fatal attack thanks to the timely intervention of police in Bihar's Gopalganj on Wednesday as a mob tried to set the vehicle on fire.
Bihar: Stampede leaves seven people dead in Baba Siddhnath Temple
Aug 12, 2024, at 03:33 pm
A stampede incident in Bihar's Baba Siddhnath Temple in Makhdumpur town on Monday left at least seven people dead and nine others injured.
Supreme Court refuses to stay Patna High Court order scrapping Bihar govt's hiking of quota
Jul 29, 2024, at 06:21 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay Patna High Court order scrapping the Bihar government's hiking of quota in jobs and education for several categories from 50 percent to 65 percent, media reports said.
Bihar government school teacher accused of sexually exploiting minor children, FIR filed against him
Jul 27, 2024, at 11:59 pm
A school teacher in Bihar has been accused of sexually exploiting several minor children at a government school in Muzaffarpur district, media reports said.
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar skips NITI Aayog meeting, sends his deputies
Jul 27, 2024, at 07:53 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Triggering speculations, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday skipped the NITI Aayog meeting, which is chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Jul 24, 2024, at 05:24 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Countering the Opposition's charge that the Modi government's budget is "discriminatory", Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said it is impossible for her or anyone else to name all states during the address.
Kursi bachao budget: Rahul Gandhi's taunt after Modi govt reserves big amount for Andhra, Bihar
Jul 23, 2024, at 08:38 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Leader of Opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has taken a potshot at the incumbent, whose first budget in the third term reserved a hefty amount for Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, the states ruled by two most powerful allies of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre.
Centre rules out granting special status to Bihar, Lalu Yadav's party takes swipe at BJP ally JDU
Jul 23, 2024, at 05:18 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Centre has ruled out any plan to give a special category status to Bihar, a core demand by its key ally, the Janata Dal (United), triggering a swipe for its leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by the Rashtriya Janata Dal.
CBI arrests engineer, his associate for stealing NEET question paper from Bihar's Hazaribagh
Jul 17, 2024, at 05:22 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday arrested a man who stole NEET-UG paper from the trunk of the National Testing Agency in Bihar's Hazaribagh before they were allegedly leaked along with his associate, media reports said.
Bihar politician Mukesh Sahani's father murdered at home, mutilated body found
Jul 16, 2024, at 04:59 pm
Patna/IBNS: Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) chief Mukesh Sahani's father has been brutally murdered at his home in Bihar's Darbhanga district, media reports said.
Modi's coalition challenge: Nitish Kumar demands Rs 30,000 cr for Bihar in Union Budget
Jul 10, 2024, at 12:23 am
New Delhi: Janta Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar has requested Rs 30,000 crore ($3.6 billion) from India's Union Budget this year to support projects in Bihar, presenting a challenge for the coalition government, Bloomberg reported.
NDA vs INDIA bloc: 13 Assembly seats in 7 states to go to bypolls
Jul 07, 2024, at 02:37 am
New Delhi: After a high-stakes contest in the Lok Sabha polls, which saw the opposition making a strong comeback, the INDIA bloc and the BJP-led NDA will face off on July 10 as bypolls are held in 13 Assembly constituencies across seven states, including four in West Bengal.
Bihar suspends 16 engineers after 10 bridges collapse in a week
Jul 06, 2024, at 02:33 am
Patna/IBNS: Sixteen engineers of Bihar's water resources department have been suspended after 10 bridges collapsed in the last 15 days across the state, a statement by the department said.
Jun 30, 2024, at 05:22 am
Gaya (Bihar): Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi feels that there is a "plot" behind consecutive bridge collapses in Bihar, media reports said.
Nitish Kumar's party JD(U) reiterates demand for special status for Bihar at key meet
Jun 30, 2024, at 02:18 am
Patna: The Janata Dal United (JDU), one of the main allies of the ruling BJP at the Centre, concluded its national executive meeting with a resolution calling for special state status for Bihar.
NEET paper leak: Congress's students' wing storms NTA head office in Delhi, locks it from inside
Jun 28, 2024, at 02:03 am
New Delhi: Several members of the National Students' Union of India (NSUI) forcefully entered the head office of the National Testing Agency (NTA) in Delhi and locked it from the inside to protest the alleged irregularities in the NEET medical entrance examinations.
CBI makes first arrests in NEET-UG paper leak case in Bihar
Jun 27, 2024, at 09:52 pm
Patna: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has carried out its first arrests in the NEET-UG paper leak case in Bihar, arresting two accused from Patna named Manish Kumar and Ashutosh.
Jun 20, 2024, at 07:15 pm
Patna/IBNS: In a blow to the Bihar government, the Patna High Court on Thursday scrapped the state's decision to hike the quota in jobs and education for several categories to 65 percent, media reports said.