Nitish in Delhi, dangles special status for 2014

NEW DELHI: Defence Secretary was today named as the new Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG). The 1976 Bihar cadre officer will succeed Vinod Rai, who superannuates tomorrow after five and a half years of eventful tenure as the head of the ...

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.

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 ...

New Delhi, May 23 (ANI Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh Sharma, a 1976-batch Bihar cadre Indian Administrative Service Sharma holds a Masters degree in Political Science from the University of York. ] Like Rai, Sharma too has served as Secretary in ...

Two days after alleged rapist Manoj Kumar Sah was nabbed from Bihar, extensive raids by Delhi Police and the Bihar STF led to the capture on Monday morning of the second accused in the rape and brutalization of a five-year-old girl in east Delhis Gandhi Nagar.

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 ...

New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar dubbed Lalu Prasad as a man who speaks too much, days after the RJD chief called him a "parrot" of RSS and BJP "Lalu is badbola (one who speaks too much). We don't comment on people who speak too much.

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 ...