A school principal in Bihar, who stabbed and killed a Bharatiya Janata Party MLA for allegedly raping her, is writing a book on why she took the extreme step.
The strike called by Bihar Health Services Association has paralysed the working in hospitals and public health centres across the state.
"We have made up our mind to go on two day strike unless our demands are met or we get an assurance in this regard from chief minister Nitish Kumar," BSHSA general secretary Ajay Kumar said.
The state, which had been reeling under intense cold wave since a week, got some respite on Thursday as the minimum temperature rose to 4.4 degrees Celsius in capital city Patna while Gaya district recorded 3.4 degree Celsius.
The prevailing cold wave has claimed 22 more lives in Bihar, taking the total number of deaths in the state due to inclement weather to 48, an official on Tuesday said.
The Patna high court on Tuesday granted bail to Rupam Pathak, a school principal, accused of stabbing a Bharatiya Janata Party MLA to death, after he had allegedly raped her for three years.
The benefits of the Centre's Integrated Child Development Services are not reaching the most impoverished children in Bihar, a latest survey report has revealed. The report of the rapid assessment survey -- conducted jointly by the Bihar Lok Adhikar Manch and Child Rights and You -- strongly emphasises the inadequacy of the ICDS service delivery system in the state, especially in the impoverished Dalit and Mahadalit societies.
Cutting across party lines, leaders in Bihar on Sunday reacted strongly over Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray's statement where he blamed 'Bihari migrants' being responsible for the recent gangrape in Delhi.
Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purayag failed to control his emotional tears when he visited Bihar's Wajidpur village, the land of his great grandfather, on Sunday.
Seven people have died in Patna district in Bihar after drinking illicit liquor on Friday, a state government official said. "All of them died at Menhdiganj locality in Patna city after they consumed illicit liquor" a district official said.
"She was mercilessly beaten to death when the accused spotted her cutting grass in his field," a police official told rediff.com.
Residents of Gaya, which has recorded the lowest temperature in Bihar at 4 degrees Celsius, are suffering under the double agony of biting cold and acute power crisis.
Two incidents of rape were reported in Bihar on Sunday where a mentally ill woman was allegedly raped by an official of a government hospital, while a minor girl was gangraped by two youths, the police said.
A Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Bihar on Thursday said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had failed to fulfill the minimum courtesy of congratulating Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his win.
Soon after Narendra Modi was sworn in as the chief minister of Gujarat for the fourth time on Wednesday, Bharatiya Janata Party's leaders from Bihar, who attended the ceremony, extended an invitation Modi to visit their state.
In the back drop of ongoing hue and cry for justice for the Delhi gangrape victim, Bihar plans to set up fast track courts to deal with rape cases to provide timely justice to the victims, an official said in Patna on Wednesday.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is yet to congratulate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and refused to say anything on Modi's hat-trick victory on Friday.
Bodh Gaya's Mahabodhi temple, one of Buddhism's holiest shrines, plans to provide a peaceful environment for meditation to 4,000 visiting troops of the Royal British Army, who will start arriving in the second week of January 2013.
A government survey report has revealed that around 1,875 government-run schools in Bihar do not exist. The report says that the government's Global Positioning System, which were used toascertain the physical verification of the schools to chalk out their upgradation and modernization, have failed to locate them. M I Khan reports.
The Delhi-based Centre for Environment and Food Security has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking a thorough probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scam in Bihar.
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