Woman gang-raped, friend assaulted in Bihar, two held

NEW DELHI: The pieces on the political chessboard for the 2014 elections have begun to fall into place with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar making support for special status to the state central to his JD (U) party's future negotiations. At a massive rally ...

New Delhi, May 1(PTI) Cancelling the previous tender finalized during Lalu Prasad's tenure as Railway Minister for setting up two multi-crore rupee locmotive projects in Bihar, government today decided to start a afresh bidding process for them with ...

New Delhi, Apr 22: Sunil Kumar Pintu, tourism minister in Bihar government, has come out in open in support of Nitish Model of governance. The minister who belongs to the BJP told an English daily that Nitish model is better than Gujarat model.Explaining the ...

NEW DELHI: Shashi Kant Sharma, a Bihar cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, was on Thursday sworn-in as the new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), the government's official auditor. Sharma, 61, a former defence secretary, was ...

New Delhi: The plea of one of the accused in December 16 gang-rape case for interim bail to visit his ailing mother in Bihar was today rejected by a fast track court here. Noting that the accused had absconded and was arrested from his native ...

New Delhi, April 23: The Supreme Court today allowed the Bihar governor to appoint ad hoc vice-chancellors (VCs) to the various universities whose appointments were earlier stayed by the court upon an appeal filed by the state government.

NEW DELHI: Amid demands for special category status by Bihar, the Centre today set up an expert committee to evolve a composite index to measure backwardness of states. "It has been decided to constitute an Expert Committee... to consider ...

A team of experts from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New Delhi, has flown down to Bihar amidst reports that three children, suspected to have been afflicted with acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), have died in the last few days. The experts ...

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has finally decided to follow his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar to hold a rally at New Delhi to demand special category state status for Odisha. Sources said the rally will be organised on the day the BJD will submit ...