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Patna: Ace poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Thursday put paid to speculations of him floating a new political platform stating that he is set to embark on a 3000 km ‘padyatra’ that will start from Mahatma Gandhi’s ashram in Bihar’s Champaran on October 2. He said he will launch a ‘Jan Surraj’ (Good Governance) campaign […]

Mancherial: Authorities of district headquarters hospital and a voluntary organization jointly performed final rites of a daily wage earner of Uttar Pradesh whose body was abandoned in a government hospital here on Sunday evening. The body of Mothi Shah was left at a mortuary of the hospital when his brother was unable to pay charges […]

Patna: Acknowledging power shortage across the state, Bihar’s Power Minister, Bijendra Prasad Yadav assured on Thursday that a power shortage of around 1000 Megawatt (MW) power will be resolved in a day or two. “A power supply shortage of around 1000MW is presently going on in the state and it will be resolved in a […]

Hyderabad: It is not just the victims in cybercrime cases who are finding their purses getting thinner. Cops investigating a majority of cybercrime cases are seeing their budgets being wiped out faster than ever. The increase in cybercrime cases, officials say, is costing a bomb to the police with huge amounts being spent for identifying […]

Patna: The Iftar party, hosted by the RJD at the official residence of former Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Friday, attracted attention of every political party in the state. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, accepting the invitation sent to him by Rabri Devi, and her sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav, walked from his 7 […]

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Cybercrime police arrested a Bihar native on charges of harassing and threatening a woman from Abdullapurmet on social media. The suspect, Mohd Israel, a construction worker and resident of Abdullapurmet and the woman, who works at a local market, were allegedly in an extramarital relationship. Police said the suspect often pressurized the […]

Sheohar: A person hailing from Bihar’s Sheohar district has come up with a unique protest against the fuel price hike across the country by riding a horse while going to work. The man, who works with the state electricity department, collected electricity bills from people while riding a horse from one village to another, instead […]

Sushil Kumar, SP of Lakhisarai, confirmed the incident. He told IANS that the bomb exploded in Walipur village under Piparia police station around 7 a.m. in the morning.

Patna: A cargo ship carrying 18 trucks sank in the river Ganga in Bihar’s Katihar district. The incident happened on Thursday night. The ship was on its way from Jharkhand’s Sahibganj to Manihari in Katihar district. Ansar Ali, one of the employees of the cargo ship, managed to swim out from the river after the […]

Patna: Deaths due to consumption of spurious liquor continue in Bihar. According to an official of Bihar police, so far 37 persons have died after consuming spurious liquor in the three districts of Bihar since the day of Holi. Maximum number of deaths took place in Bhagalpur district where so far 22 persons have died […]

Hyderabad: After a gap of two years due to Covid restrictions on annual cattle fairs, the horse breeders and traders from Telangana are back in business and participating in the annual fairs in different places. At the recently held animal fair in Malegaon in Loha taluka of Nanded district in Maharashtra, several traders attended the […]

Karimnagar: The Bihar State Cooperative Bank (BSCB) and other cooperative sector officials of the state were all praise for the Karimnagar District Cooperative Central Bank (DCCB) and said that they have learnt a lot of best banking practices to be followed for the success of the cooperatives. The Bihar cooperative lauded the KDCCB for its […]

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Cybercrime police on Friday arrested a man from Bihar on charges of cheating people in the guise of sending gift cards using e-commerce portals. He was involved in 22 cases across different States including Telangana, police said. Rs.3.5 lakh, mobile phones, cheque books and debit cards were seized from him, while orders […]

Bhagalpur (Bihar): At least 10 people died and nine others suffered serious injuries in a massive explosion that took place inside a house, where the inhabitants were said to be involved in illegal firecracker business, an official said on Friday. Bhagalpur District Magistrate Subrat Kumar Sen said the blast took place inside the house of […]

The explosion took place at around 11.30 p.m. on Thursday night in the house in Kajwali Chak village under Tatarpur police station. The explosion was so intense that four houses collapsed and the sound was heard around 15 kms away from the site.

Patna: A man, working as a labourer, was thrown off an under-construction building by two men for demanding his wage in the Aurangabad district of Bihar, police said. The incident took place on Mnday night when Arjun Bhuiya demanded his labour charge from the building owner Shantu Singh. An irritated Shantu Singh, along with his […]

Patna: A burqa-clad girl in Bihar’s Begusarai district was stopped from making transactions in a nationalised bank, an official said. The girl recorded the incident and shared it on social media on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday when the girl had gone to UCO bank of Mansoor Chowk branch in Begusarai to withdraw money. […]

Madhubani: Soon after fire broke out in the halted train at Bihar’s Madhubani railway station on Saturday, the Eastern Central Railway (ECR) said that a high-level inquiry into the incident will be conducted. According to a statement by the ECR, the fire broke out at 9.13 am today and was doused at 9.50 am. The […]

Ranchi: A special CBI court on Tuesday convicted Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad in the Rs 139.5 crore Doranda treasury embezzlement case. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on February 18, a CBI counsel said. The court had on January 29 completed hearing arguments in case and […]

The police had to release several rounds of tear gas to stop the miscreants, added the police.