Many bahubalis have fielded their wives and relatives as proxies.
It is almost puzzling to see more old men and women hang around long enough for people to begin wondering 'why not retire?'
An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale was felt in Patna and other parts of Bihar on Saturday evening but there was no report of damage due it.
'The BJP is in no hurry because they have already won the battle.'
Yadav had been evading arrest in a case regarding his brother, Vijay Prakash.
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Greg Abel and Ajit Jain would be prime candidates
With these states imposing lockdowns anew, the health ministry emphasised that the restrictions should be utilised to focus on containment, surveillance and testing in the containment and buffer zones as the key strategy for early detection of cases and fatality management.
"A seal from a factory in Bihar was found on the three AK22 rifles recovered after the Gulshan terror attack," Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime chief Monirul Islam was quoted as saying by the Dhaka Tribune.
The Commission's strongly-worded instructions came close on the heels of politicians using election rallies and press conferences to target each other ahead of the crucial assembly elections.
Swirling waters inundated 12 districts in the state.
'We don't want to lead this hellish life. Enough is enough.'
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Trouble erupted in Godapur village under the Town police station area, where an idol was found vandalised, following which the members of two communities indulged in heavy stone-pelting, District Magistrate Kaushal Kumar said.
District Magistrate Rachna Patil told PTI on Friday, "We are looking after the matter."
The fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections will go to polls on April 29. The voting will be held for 71 seats spread across 9 states.
With the rise in level of the Ganga, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has expressed apprehension of further rise in water level by Monday in view of release of water from Bansagar dam as flood-like situation prevailed in the state.
A total 14 ministers, including 3 Rashtriya Janata Dal defectors, were inducted into the 12-day old Jitan Ram Manjhi cabinet in Bihar on Monday.
Delhi Police on Sunday said former Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar was "not cooperating" in the investigation in the fake degree case, saying he was "reluctant" to answer questions during interrogation.
In the dock over his alleged fake degrees, former Aam Aadmi Party Minister Jitender Singh Tomar was on Thursday grilled for the second day in Faizabad by the Delhi police which said he would be taken to Bihar on Friday for verification of his law degree.
In more trouble for former Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar, arrested over the "fake" degree row, RML Awadh University, from where he claimed to have graduated, on Wednesday denied having any such record.
Investigators are now trying to ascertain as to who made these alleged forged documents and whether an organised gang is behind it.
Focus on Berkshire's size has grown over the years as it has amassed more than 80 businesses
India, World Bank ink $375 mn deal to help develop country's first waterway
The winners for the year 2019 are from fields as diverse as agriculture, sports, handicrafts, afforestation and wildlife conservation, armed forces and education.
An interplay of Modi government's outreach in Bihar and the sequence of events in Chirag Paswan's life could make Bihar a game of musical chairs when the results are out.
Official figures say 1.8 lakh workers have returned home to Bihar. Unofficially, however, that figure is said to have crossed 3 lakhs. Can Bihar cope?
A court in New Delhi on Monday extended by four more days the police custody of ex-Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Jitender Singh Tomar, who quit as Delhi law minister after being arrested on charges of furnishing false degrees, was on Friday confirmed to have passed law examination in 1998-99 from a Bihar college.
Two women doctors were injured in Indore when a five-member team of health officials was pelted with stones in Taatpatti Bakhal area on Wednesday while they were trying to trace a person who had come into contact with a COVID-19 patient, police said.
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'So far we were fighting human beings. Now a shaitan has entered a human body which is after us.'
With the matter snowballing into a political controversy, both the Janaat Dal-United and the BJP tried to play down the issue.
An estimated 57 per cent of the electorate cast their votes in the first phase of the Bihar assembly election in 49 constituencies on a violence-free note on Monday.
In yet another controversial remark, Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday sought to justify Maoists extorting levy from contractors who, he suggested, were indulging in corruption and looting the state.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal with 19 seats, Congress on 9, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party on 5, Hindustani Awam Morcha and Vikassheel Insan Party -- in phases three to seven of the general elections.
Floods have forced people to eat rats to survive as there is nothing left to eat. M I Khan reports from Patna.
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