Puja performed in Gyanvapi mosque basement hours after court order

Prayers were performed in a cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi on Wednesday night following court orders allowing the resumption of a practice said to have been discontinued three decades......

No cooking during the day: Bihar's bizarre order for summer

In a bizarre decision, the Bihar government has issued an advisory that there should be no cooking, puja or any other religious activity between 9 am and 6 pm in rural areas. The move, the......

Death toll in high intensity quakes rises to 19 in Bihar

The death toll in the two high intensity quakes that rattled Bihar on Tuesday rose to 19 on Wednesday, with two more deaths reported from Vaishali and Siwan districts. "The death toll in the high......

More than 1,000 people from Bihar trapped in flood-hit Kashmir

Even as Bihar continues its own rehabilitation after it was ravaged by floods, the state has offered Rs 10 crore for relief works for the flood-affected people in Jammu and Kashmir, besides supply......