The relief and rehabilitation measures were running in full swing with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar launching a drive under which over Rs 180 crore were disbursed among affected people through direct cash transfer.
The floods have also damaged crops in 2 lakh hectares of land.
The floods have affected 31 lakh people across 13 districts and also widely damaged crops in different parts of the state.
The death toll in Bihar floods today mounted to 64 with over 33 lakh people spread across 13 districts affected by the deluge.
The party also plans to raise a number of issues ranging from drought and floods to toning up the public distribution system in the monsoon session of Parliament.
CM Yogi Adityanath said the BJP was getting widespread support from the people.
There is a two-minute footage about Choksi in the series which allegedly shows him in a bad light and therefore, could affect the various proceedings against him in India.
They entered the Bihar poll battle to protect and carry forward their fathers' political legacy, but many of them could not win their own seat though some tasted victory.
Three years ago Mohd Mushtaque and Mohd Sohrab from Bihar's Araria district exchanged their wives out of love, but lust and greed for a piece of land proved fatal for their relationship, a police official on Friday said.
With major rivers in northern Bihar rising menacingly at several places in the state following heavy rains in catchment areas and discharge into the rivers from Nepal, thousands of people have been forced to abandon their homes and hundreds of villages have been flooded, officials said.
State governments yet to act on sorting MGNREGA wage delays
"In May 2014, the BJP won 282 Lok Sabha seats. In four years, BJP government is down to 271, losing its simple majority in Lok Sabha minus its allies - considering the fact that PM Modi has suspended Kirti Azad and virtually disowned their most truthful, fiercely independent Patna Sahib MP," Surjewala tweeted.
Shannu Khatun, 35, is a beggar who has to earn a living for her family including her physically challenged husband, eight-year-old daughter and twin sons. She sold one of her sons for Rs 62 to a Nepalese couple at Forbesganj Railway Station.
A woman in Bihar's Araria district sold off one of her four-month-old male twins for Rs 62 to a Nepalese couple, the police on Sunday said.
A Bihar member of Parliament has alleged on Monday that an unidentified man demanded Rs 10 lakh from him and threatened to kill him if he did not pay up, the police said.
Floods have forced people to eat rats to survive as there is nothing left to eat. M I Khan reports from Patna.
'We have taken technology to the mandal and booth level.'
Sources told rediff.com that the bomb, which was attached to a battery, was low in intensity.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday charged that Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance government in Bihar has failed to fully implement Centre-sponsored schemes but is taking credit for them.
Modi also announced Rs 2 lakh aid to the kin of those who died in the deluge.
West Bengal had witnessed violence and arson from December 13 to 17 during protests against the new citizenship law.
Voting has begun for the by-election to 11 of the 18 assembly constituencies in Bihar on Tuesday morning. The polling will decide the fate of 99 contestants, including nine women.
Hundreds of families of missing people in the flood-affected districts of Madhepura, Saharsa, Supaul, Purnia and Araria, are optimistic that their missing kin will be traced. They have been running from pillar to post ever since water receded to get information about their dear ones.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal over phone and discussed about the prevailing condition on Monday.
At least 66 people were killed and over two hundred people injured when a severe nor'wester with a windspeed of 125 km per hour ripped through North Dinajpur district in West Bengal and four neighbouring districts of Bihar.
Heavy rains in the last three days triggered flash floods in parts of Bihar, where 41 people have died so far, and inundated large areas in Assam and North Bengal, paralysing normal life and snapping rail link to the Northeast from the rest of the country.
Tracking hundreds of missing people, particularly women and children, in flood-hit Bihar is proving to be the biggest challenge for the state government and the non governmental organisations involved in relief and rehabilitation.Hundreds of people were seen queuing up in front of relief camps in the flood-affected districts of Madhepura, Saharsa, Supaul, Purnia and Araria to trace their missing family members. Thousands of people have been separated from their families.
Critics say that there's no 'Modi wave' in four Muslim-dominated parliamentary constituencies in Bihar's Seemanchal belt, but Bharatiya Janata Party leaders are hopeful to retain three out of the four seats here. In 2009 general elections, the BJP won in Purnea, Katihar and Araria but lost in Kishanganj.
The flood situation in Bihar showed signs of improvement with major rivers maintaining a receding trend, even as four more deaths were reported from Darbhanga district, taking the total toll to 81.
Superintendent of police M A Siddiqui said minister of state for forest and environment, Ramji Rishdev's car fell into a ditch near Achra village when he was proceeding to Forbesganj to attend a programme by deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi.
The people fell ill after consuming poisonous food at a wedding party in Sultanpur. According to official sources, some those affected are in serious condition due to dehydration, and have been admitted in hospital.
Shambhu Tamti made a clay idol of Lakshmi Tatma after hundreds of people started thronging the village to get a glimpse of Lakshmi Tatma in her absence.
The National Democratic Alliance in Bihar which so far had BJP, JD-U and the LJP as its constituents will now have another dalit-centric party HAM as a member.
The employers, many of whom had virtually abandoned the migrant labourers, are sending them train and even flight tickets to fetch them back as factories whir back to life, construction activities pick up and the sowing season sets in.
Two-year-old Lakshmi Tatma uses a baby walker at her home in a village on the outskirts of Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Lakshmi, who was born with four arms and four legs, has recovered remarkably after her extra limbs were removed through a 27-hour long surgery in Bangalore last November.
With more than 21 lakh migrant workers returning to the state as per official data, the Nitish Kumar government faces an enormous challenge in providing jobs for them.
Six months ago, she could barely walk owing to an abnormality -- she was born with eight limbs. Today, she is like any other normal kid of her age, thanks to a dedicated team of doctors who operated upon her in Bangalore. Lakshmi is back in her village and hundreds of people are turning up at her doorsteps to see her.
Training his guns at the Congress, Modi accused the opposition party of having always made false promises of poverty eradication, farm loan waiver and one rank-one pension for retired servicemen.
The Bihar government has launched a massive programme to bring over 23 lakh out-of-school children to educational institutions in the state.
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