The Bihar government on Thursday decided to suspend Indian Administrative Service officer and former Patna District Magistrate Gautam Goswami who surrendered before a special court in Patna in connection with the multi-crore flood relief scam.
The senior most among the five judges, whose names were officially announced by the Centre on Saturday, is Justice Mithal whose parent cadre is the Allahabad high court.
The Vigilance judge had on May 31 issued non-bailable warrants against Goswami and eight others, including Santosh Jha, the alleged kingpin of the scam.
The application is likely to be hear by Designated Vigilance Judge J M Prasad on Saturday.
Turning on the heat on former Patna district magistrate Gautam Goswami and two other alleged kingpins of the multi-crore flood relief scam, the Bihar Vigilance Bureau on Monday alerted airports across the country to prevent their possible escape.
This is the first time after Nitish Kumar dumped the BJP in August 2022 that violence has broken out across the state, reports M I Khan.
Supreme Court judge Sanjay Karol on Wednesday recused himself from hearing a plea filed by the Bihar government challenging a Patna high court order granting a stay on the caste survey it was conducting.
Gautam Goswami, the former Patna district magistrate and key accused in the multi-crore flood relief scam, currently on bail, has began his new role as counsellor for HIV/AIDS patients.
Earlier, district police officers had claimed that two bike-borne assailants were involved in the incident.
The Bihar government on Sunday vowed to punish those responsible for "lapses" that led to the stampede at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna on October 3, leaving 33 people dead and 29 injured.
A shoe was on Monday hurled at Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi by a youth during his weekly public interaction programme 'Janata Durbar' at his residence in Patna.
'The prisoner was admitted in the hospital due to stomach pain. The x-ray of his stomach was taken and the presence of foreign particles was visible during the examination. There is a need to investigate it thoroughly'
Bharatiya Janata Party Supremo and Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi is embraced by a 103-year-old supporter in Dahod.
Kushwaha was referring to 'Luv Kush' rally in Patna, a veritable gathering of Kurmis and Koeris upset with supposed hegemony of numerically powerful Yadavs which Prasad, then helming Bihar, was seen as embodying.
Bihar's Ruling Janata Dal-United legislator Anant Singh was arrested on Wednesday in a case of kidnapping and extortion at Bihita in rural Patna.
All the schools in Bihar have been closed till January 6 in the wake of intense cold wave sweeping the state. More than a dozen people died due to cold wave in the state in last two days.
On August 18, the apex court convicted Singh in the case, overturning the orders of the trial court and the Patna high court that had acquitted him.
Some names like 'Bharat Rashtriya Samiti', 'Ujwal Bharat Party' and 'Naya Bharat Party' were discussed for the new outfit.
That's what teachers are telling students in many Indian schools.
'I am helpless and there is no one to help me.' 'I have been on this platform since Saturday.'
Police says Amitesh and two others were trying to flee after stealing a motorcycle. Father, however, denies the charge.
Despite the national capital recording its best air quality on Diwali day in eight years, pollution levels may rise due to low night temperatures and sporadic burning of firecrackers though there is a ban on their manufacture, storage, sale and use within the city.
In a bid to check discrepancies in the process of attendance and wage payment to NREGA beneficiaries using manual job cards, bio-metric cards are being introduced in Bihar under e-shakti project.
Free of cost radios provided by the state government to the Mahadalits, the poorest of the poor in Bihar, is proving useless, as they are selling them to raise money for chicken, mutton and country liquor. M I Khan reports.
According to the police headquarters in Patna, "more than a dozen police personnel and power department employees" sustained injuries in the incident that took place barely "100 meters away from Barsoi police station".
The Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud has rejected a request made by Justice V M Velumani to retain her as a Madras high court judge.
However, the Army, in a statement, said since Singh's cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot injury, no guard of honour or military funeral was provided, in accordance with the existing policy.
Over 40 people died in rain-related incidents, majority of them in Uttar Pradesh, while incessant rainfall in Bihar left the streets of state capital Patna and other areas waterlogged and residences of at least two ministers marooned.
The police say they have enough incriminating evidence against the former Patna district magistrate.
In a first, the Centre will start selling tomatoes at discounted rates in retail markets in the national capital and few other cities from Friday to provide relief to the consumers as the price of the kitchen staple is ruling high at over Rs 200 per kilogram in some parts of the country.
In a fourth case of suspected suicide by a NEET aspirant this month, a 16-year-old student was found hanging in his hostel room in the Kunhari area of Kota, the police said on Thursday.
The registration of a case against Goswami, who was named by Time magazine as a Young Asian Hero, had shocked the country.
'I wanted to hide below my cart, but a bullet hit my leg.'
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