Patna, Sep 2 (IANS) Responding to news reports that the Maoists had killed one of the four policemen they abducted on Sunday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Thursday said his government is ready for talks with the Leftwing rebels.
Patna, Sep 2 (IANS) As a second deadline expired Thursday, Maoists said the fate of four Bihar policemen held captive by them would now be decided by a 'jan adalat' or kangaroo court. The families of the cops are desperately pleading with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for help....
Patna, Sep 1 (IANS) Bihar Wednesday suspended Lakhisarai Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Singh on charges of irregularity and negligence of duty during a gunfight with Maoists in which seven policemen were killed and four were abducted by the rebels.
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Patna, Sep 1 (IANS) Bihar reported its first dengue death when a 60-year-old man succumbed to the disease in a private hospital here, an official said Wednesday....
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Patna, Aug 28 (IANS) Hundreds of students associated with Taru Mitra (Friends of Trees) in Bihar Saturday began a campaign against the government's plan to cut nearly 4,000 trees in the Patna zoo for airport safety....
Patna, Aug 27 (IANS) The functioning of government offices in Bihar has come to a standstill with the indefinite strike of more than 2.5 lakh state non-gazetted employees continuing fifth day Friday....
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Patna, Aug 27 (IANS) Nature lovers are concerned over the Bihar government’s plans to cut or prune nearly 4,000 trees in the Patna zoo for airport safety, as they say it is the only green cover for the city’s two million people....
Patna, Aug 25 (IANS) Environmental organisation Greenpeace India and civil society groups have urged political parties in poll-bound Bihar to include development of renewable energy in their manifestos....
Patna, Aug 25 (IANS) Transporters began an indefinite strike in Bihar Wednesday against the government's decision to register criminal cases for overloading vehicles - an offence with a maximum sentence of five years in jail....
Patna, Aug 25 (IANS) Thousands of people in Bihar fled their homes Wednesday as floodwaters entered over 200 villages and threatened to inundate many others....
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) The Congress will soon start selecting its candidates for the Bihar assembly polls this year, and the party's state unit is expected to submit its recommendations by Sep 5....
Patna, Aug 23 (IANS) More than two lakh employees of the Bihar government Monday went on an indefinite strike demanding implementation of recommendations of the sixth pay commission in "letter and spirit"....
New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday said the central government will have to repay Rs.1,000 crore that his government spent to repair and maintain national highways in the state....
Patna, Aug 21 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party MP Shatrughan Sinha Saturday urged his party's central leadership to invite Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and firebrand youth leader Varun Gandhi for campaigning in the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar....
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Patna, Aug 21 (IANS) Lack of funds for India's only dolphin sanctuary in Bihar is badly affecting conservation of the endangered Ganges river dolphin, which is the national aquatic animal....
Patna, Aug 20 (IANS) Two police officers have been suspended here after a Muslim banker found dead near a park was mistakenly identified as a beggar and cremated according to Hindu rites....
Patna, Aug 19 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Thursday challenged Congress president Sonia Gandhi to explain with facts and figures that the central financial assistance provided to Bihar was more than it deserves....
Patna, Aug 18 (IANS) A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister in Bihar's Nitish Kumar-led government plans to invite Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for campaigning in his constituency if he contests in the upcoming assembly elections....
Patna, Aug 18 (IANS) Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Wednesday began a two-day meet in Nalanda district to chalk out the strategy for the upcoming assembly election....
Patna, Aug 18 (IANS) A legislator from Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U), sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a minister, enjoys the status of minister as head of the assembly housing committee, officials said.
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