Rape accused weds victim on court premises, gets bail

An arrested man has escaped from a police station lock up in Bihar's Begusarai district by scaling the wall, the police said today.Before escaping, he removed his handcuff with soap kept in the toilet, Teghra police station SHO Ram Swarth Paswan said.A ...

The minister was on his way to Motihari to attend PM Modi's rally. He never made it.M I Khan reports from Patna. IMAGE: Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha. Photograph: Kind courtesy @UpendraRLSP/Twitter A Union minister abused, insulted, manhandled and threatened. Only in Nitish Kumar's Bihar, folks. Upendra Kushwaha is the minister of state for human resources development in Narendra D Modi's ministry. He leads the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party's ally in Bihar. Kushwaha ...

A mob assaulted a man and injected acid in his eyes, leaving him blind, for allegedly eloping with his employer's wife in Begusarai following which a person has been arrested in the case, the police said on Saturday. The assault took place at an eatery ...

The project would facilitate the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) to put in place infrastructure and navigation services needed to develop the waterway. The Union government and the World Bank have signed a $375 million loan agreement for developing the country's first modern inland waterway on the river Ganga between Varanasi and the seaport of Haldia. The 1,360 km-stretch of the waterway will bring thousands of jobs in cargo logistics and transportation to one of the most populous ...

A day after unidentified armed men opened fire at his residence, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLA Upendra Paswan on Saturday wrote a letter to Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) requesting him to increase his security. Paswan has also asked the DGP to ...

Six persons - including five women and a child were killed and several others injured in two separate accidents in Bihar today, officials said.The incidents happened in Siwan and Begusarai districts, they said.In the first incident, four persons, including ...

It had been a dream beginning. In early 1974, when he joined the JP movement as a students’ union leader, Lalu Prasad Yadav had displayed the promise of a fiery politician with his heart in the right place. He had a humble background, in the mould of a ...