Patna

By-elections to the two seats, which were won by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U), have been necessitated by deaths of the incumbents.

BJP MLA Hari Bhushan Thakur Bachol recently told the media in Patna that Bakhtiyarpur should be renamed as 'Nitish Nagar'.

Tejashwi Yadav, the leader of opposition in the state assembly, will be part of the delegation, Kumar said.

The woman confessed to crime after a sustained interrogation.

The stage for a stormy session has been set by the tug of war between the state government and the opposition over the Bihar Special Armed Police Bill, 2021, passed by the Assembly in the last budget session.

According to the state health department, the number of fresh cases was 432 which took the overall tally to 716728 while 18 fatalities raised the death toll to 9484.

Bihar BJP disciplinary committee head Vinay Singh has slapped party MLC Tunna ji Pandey with the notice for his "amaryadit" (uncharitable) statement against the CM.

The drastic measure was taken in the wake of a raging second wave that struck the state in the beginning of April and has since left more than four lakh people infected and claimed over 2,000 lives.

The police took into custody Tejashwi Yadav and his elder brother Tej Pratap following heavy stone pelting by their party workers that led to the use of water cannons to disperse the protesters.

Malik was arrested on the information given by the state CID on February 7. During interrogation, he revealed about receiving seven pistols, magazines and explosives through a handler based in Chapra district in Bihar.

The former union minister was awarded the Padma Bhushan posthumously. The JD(U) has squarely blamed its poor show in the recent assembly elections on the rebellion of Chirag Paswan who gave tickets to a number of BJP rebels from seats contested by Nitish'...

He, however, debunked speculations in a section of the media during the course of the day that it was likely to take place on Tuesday.

Rupesh Kumar Singh was sprayed with bullets while he was inside his SUV waiting for the gates of his residence in Punaichak locality in the city to open after his return from office on Tuesday evening.

The 30-year-old woman was forced into sexual relations with the men and after she resisted, her husband threw acid on her. Sources said that he wanted "purification" of his wife.

Kaimur SP Dilnawaz Ahmed confirmed the latest development and said that SHO of Kundra police station was suspended after a prohibition team visited Kaimur and investigated.

Kushwaha said he had a cordial meeting with Kumar earlier in the week but denied hammering out a deal for the homecoming. He, however, did not rule out the possibility of a reunion in future.