Amitabh Bachchan's role in Paa has attracted two brothers in a Bihar village who are suffering from the rare genetic condition.
Union Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal's move to increase the class XII cut offs for the IIT entrance has been slammed by all parties in Bihar.
A seven-year-old boy was kidnapped from the high security Gandhi Maidan area in Patna on Monday.
Deputy Inspector General Arvind Pandey told rediff.com in Patna that 15 students were arrested from Bihta, 35 km from Patna, after scanning video clippings of the incident.
In a shocking incident, a 14 -year-old vendor ,was thrown out of a running train by Group Railway Police personnel in Bihar on Thursday, after he refused to pay them Rs 10.
The Government Railway Police in Bihar has arrested one of the 26 individuals allegedly involved in setting on fire four air-conditioned bogies of the Delhi-Patna Shramjeevi Express.
"But the police are doing everything to identify the culprits involved in setting the train on fire and we will take stern action against them," Additional Director General (police headquarters) Neelmani said in Patna on Thursday.
The flood situation has worsened in northern Bihar's Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpur districts as relief and rescue operations have been badly hit by continuous rains and rising water levels. The overflowing river has submerged several villages and many villagers have been forced to leave their homes to seek a safer shelter. Over two lakh people in nearly 200 villages have been affected, and the situation has been worsened by another embankment breach of Lakhendei River.
The swollen Bagmati River has breached its embankment in Bihar's Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpur districts, flooding hundreds of villages and forcing the villagers to take shelter at higher planes for safety.Official sources in Sitamarhi said on Saturday that the Bagmati River breached a dozen-feet stretch of the embankment at Tilakrajpur early on Saturday morning, inundating dozens of villages and affecting over 10,000 people. Some people were feared drowned.
Rahul Raj, was killed in a shootout with the police at suburban Kurla after he fired indiscriminately and threatened passengers in the bus. Rahul reportedly claimed that he had come to the city to kill Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader Raj Thackeray.
Former Union minister and senior Janata Dal-United leader George Fernandes filed his nomination papers in Patna on Thursday as a party candidate for Rajya Sabha by election from Bihar.
It can possibly happen only in Bihar. The names of rich including chartered accountant, government employees, shopkeeper of Public Distribution System and even dead have been allotted job cards and they have drawn money as wages under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in the state.
Former Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party supremo Ram Vilas Paswan was arrested along with dozens of party leaders in Patna on Monday, during a 'Jail Bharo Abhiyan' to protest against failure of Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Patna, R Mallar Vizhi said that foolproof security arrangements were made at Taregna to ensure safety of people.'The Central Reserve Police Force as well as the Bihar Military Police and State Auxillary Police jawans have been deployed for security purpose " she said.
Call it sheer coincidence but it was at this very village, about 35 km from Patna, where the sixth-century Indian scientist used to spend a lot of his time. Amitabh Ghosh, director of Bihar council on science and technology, told rediff.com that it was here that Aryabhatta first revealed that the earth revolves around the sun and developed the concept of zero.
The Super 30 initiative took shape six years ago as an experiment. Today, it has exceeded all expectations.
Former National Democratic Alliance convenor George Fernandes is no longer in the Janata Dal (United), Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said.
With a view to a hold free and fair Lok Sabha polls in Bihar, the Election Commission has decided to depute micro-observers at all booths in the state, official sources said on Friday. Bihar is known for its poll violence and rigging for decades now.
Police on Tuesday recovered 77 human skulls packed in two bags in Bihar's Chapra district and arrested a man in this connection, police sources said. Police nabbed Raj Deo Sah , who was carrying 77 human skulls in two bags at bus stand in Chapra. "We recovered human skulls from Sah's bags" a police official said.
"We demand a judicial inquiry into my brother Rahul's killing by a sitting judge of the high court or Supreme court, after the post mortem report pointed out that he was shot from close range" Priyanka Raj said in Patna on Thursday.
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