Bihar

Bihar will witness a seven-phase polling for its 40 Lok Sabha seats, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) H R Srinivasan said Sunday. The polls will start with the first phase on April 11 and will end on May 19 when the seventh and last phase will be held. The decision to carry out elections in seven phases has been made ...

Vigilance sleuths on Friday arrested a MNREGA program officer while accepting a bribe of Rs one lakh in Saran district of Bihar. According to a release issued by the Vigilance Investigation Bureau, the officer posted in Masrakh block and holding the additional charge of Hasuapur block, was held by a team headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police Gopal Paswan. He ...

In what may be seen as a blow to the disjointed anti-NDA front in Bihar, the Bahujan Samaj Party has decided to contest all the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state, a senior party functionary said on Monday. According to BSP state in-charge Lalji Medhkar, party supremo Mayawati has convened a meeting of all potential candidates and other office-bearers ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday expressed concern over reports of stubble burning in some districts and called for urgent steps to check the practice. At a meeting held in the Chief Minister’s Secretariat, where the agriculture scenario of the state was reviewed, he also highlighted the need for herding stray cattle to “gaushalas” since cow ...

The BJP and the JD(U) will contest an equal number of seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, BJP president Amit Shah said Friday. Other NDA allies, including the LJP and the RLSP, will get due representation in the seat sharing formula, Shah said. Addressing reporters along with Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, he said ...

A complaint case was filed Monday against Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife, seeking registration of a case against her for failing to discharge her duties that led to the death of nearly 60 people in a train accident in Amritsar Friday. The complaint claimed that Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who was the chief guest at a Dussehra function in Amritsar, ...

In Bihar, there has been an incident which has shown the negligence of the Department of Health. But the department has neither learned anything till date nor wants to learn from its mistakes. The incident is of Buxar, bihar where a dog ran off with a leg cut off during the patient’s treatment from the hospital’s Operation Theater. For the ...

A person threw slipper towards Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at an event in Patna on Thursday. This attack on Nitish Kumar happened in the Youth Janata Dal (U) program. A youth threw slippers at Nitish Kumar who had come to join the program. However, fortunately the slipper could not reach Chief Minister’s Dias. Patna police arrested a youth named ...

After the rape with a girl in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat, the migration continues in the wake of attacks on people of UP-Bihar. President of North Indian Development Council Mahesh Singh Kushwaha has claimed that more than 20 thousand people of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar have left the state in a week. Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi ...

During the search operation in Bihar’s Munger district, 20 AK-47 rifles have been received so far. Police have been exploring the drains flowing in river Ganges during this search operation. All these exercises have been started after the use of AK 47 in many incidents. Actually, AK 47 spare parts have been seized on large scale from Bihar’s Munger district. ...