Patna, May 18: A daily wage labourer, a security guard, a grocer, a marginal farmer and a truck mechanic are among the proud fathers whose sons have cracked the highly-competitive IIT-JEE exam this year, thanks to Super 30, a free coaching centre for underprivileged students in Bihar. This year, 27 of the ...

New Delhi, May 17: Lok Sabha members were in for a pleasant surprise Thursday when Home Minister P. Chidambaram, who is fluent in Tamil and English, spoke a sentence in Bhojpuri, earning praise from Speaker Meira Kumar. Chidambaram was replying to a calling attention motion on the need to give Bhojpuri the ...

Patna May 13: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has written to his Karnataka counterpart D.V. Sadanand Gowda protesting against the state police arresting an alleged member of the banned Indian Mujahideen from Bihar without previously informing the local police, an official said. The arrest was a "violation of the rule of ...

New Delhi, May 5: Strongly opposing the Centre's plan for setting up an NCTC, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said it "violates" the principle of federalism and the structure adopted for it suffers from "serious and basic flaws". Referring to Emergency days, Kumar said that if such powers are given to ...

Patna, April 24: Big brother should have been watching out for it. But legendary British author George Orwell's birthplace in Bihar's Motihari town has been lying neglected for decades with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar the latest to pledge that it would be preserved for posterity. The Bihar government will prepare a blueprint ...

Patna, April 6: Suspected Maoists have abducted a forest official and three workers in Bihar's Jamui district and threatened to kill them if a ransom of Rs.10 lakh was not paid, police said Friday. Naresh Singh, the official, was kidnapped in Jamui, about 200 km from Patna. Jamui Superintendent of Police Upendra ...

Patna, April 3: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Tuesday demanded a high level probe into World Bank report highlighting corruption and fraud in national highway projects funded by the bank. "It is a serious issue. There should be a high level probe into it," Nitish Kumar told media persons here. Nitish Kumar, who ...

Patna, March 23: A special court here Friday sentenced three people to life imprisonment for the murder of Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML) leader and former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president Chandrasekhar in Bihar's Siwan 15 years ago. Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge Dhirendra Kumar Pandey sentenced Dhruv Kumar ...

Patna, March 23: Maoists blew up a bridge and an office and set ablaze six trucks in Bihar's Jamui district during their two-day strike to protest the arrest of top Maoists leaders, police said Friday. Nearly 100 armed Maoists attacked Khaira block office in Jamui, 200 km from here early Friday, triggering ...

Patna, March 21: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) plans to take up conservation work of the ruins of Vikramshila University in Bihar and excavate nearby areas in April. ASI Patna circle's Superintending Archaeologist Sanjay K. Manjul said that conservation work of the remains of the ancient university would begin next month. "ASI ...