'I wanted to hide below my cart, but a bullet hit my leg.'
Four more workers, who were hospitalised after a service lift crashed at an under-construction society in Noida Extension, succumbed to their injuries on Saturday, pushing the death toll in the incident to eight, officials said.
Indian Mujahideen's Tehsin Akhtar was in Patna at the time of Sunday's serial blasts. He set up teams of three to plant bombs. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The Nitish Kumar government is leaving no stones unturned to plug the loopholes in the implementation liquor ban.
Five teams of the Crime Branch have been deployed to locate Imam, a resident of Bihar, they said.
The bench agreed to hear the matter at the end of the board during the day itself.
Three people were killed in a Maoist attack in a Bihar town, police officials said on Thursday night.The three people were killed when armed Maoists attacked a medical store in Munger district. However, the owner of the medical store escaped unhurt, police sources said.According to police sources, frightened local residents told them that over 100 armed Maoists attacked the medical store.
Two days after a kangaroo court in Bihar's Madhubani district punished two minor girls and a teenaged boy for visiting a rural fair together and chewing paan (betel leaf) by partially tonsuring their heads before assaulting them and slapping a fine, the police are yet to make any arrests.
All the seven accused have been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
Congress Secretary Sagar Rayka and the party's Bihar youth wing president Lalan Kumar were arrested in Begusarai on Thursday after police found Rs 6.44 lakh in their possession which was allegedly meant for luring people to join an election rally.Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a hotel in Barauni in the district and took Rayka, who is also in-charge of the party's Bihar affairs, Kumar and six others into custody for allegedly keeping cash to lure people.
Huma Qureshi's Rani Bharti was the ace in the pack, but everything that she does in this season smacks more of script conveniences than careful plotting, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Former Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party supremo Ram Vilas Paswan was arrested along with dozens of party leaders in Patna on Monday, during a 'Jail Bharo Abhiyan' to protest against failure of Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar.
The arrest came barely a few hours after a Bhagalpur court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Shashwat against whom an arrest warrant was issued on March 24.
The arrest of Kafeel Akthar, an alleged Indian Mujahideen operative, by the Karnataka police in Bihar has broken into a full-fledged war between the two states, reports Vicky Nanjappa
A youth was on Sunday arrested at Bhabuaara village in Bihar's Madhubani district in connection with the July 11 Mumbai serial blasts.
The man was caught from near the Aluva bridge on Thursday evening where he was drinking alcohol. The suspect attempted to escape from the police by jumping into the nearby river and swimming away, but was caught with the help of local residents and pulled out of the water.
Four suspects have been arrested in connection to the serial blasts that rocked Patna on Sunday. They have been identified as Imtiaz Ansari, Kaleem, Mohammad Ainul and Akthar, according to sources.
Four suspected Maoists carrying 300 kg ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in manufacturing explosives, were on Friday arrested from Chakai in Bihar's Jamui district bordering Jharkhand, said the police. Acting on a tip-off, the police intercepted a vehicle coming from Jasidih in Jharkhand and seized six sacks, each containing 50 kg of the chemical.The chemical was probably being taken to Charka Pathar in Jharkhand for the local Maoists, sources said.
This incident has again exposed that despite prohibition being in force in Bihar, alcohol is still available in the black market and that the liquor mafia is very much active
Three men have been arrested by the police for allegedly raping a minor in a village in Bihar's Saran district.
A prime accused in the 2010 gang rape case of a Japanese tourist in Bihar's Gaya district was arrested and sent to jail, the police said on Monday.
'One is happy. The moment one starts criticising the BJP, ED, IT and CBI comes to one's house.'
Two minor girls were gang raped on Wednesday by 15 boys when they were returning from a temple in Bihar's Rohtas district.
Non-bailable warrant issued against the Siwan MP following his failure to appear before the court despite several summons for framing charges in connection with an abduction case.
'In Bihar, the Dalits are not a consolidated socio-political constituency,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
Police on Tuesday recovered 77 human skulls packed in two bags in Bihar's Chapra district and arrested a man in this connection, police sources said. Police nabbed Raj Deo Sah , who was carrying 77 human skulls in two bags at bus stand in Chapra. "We recovered human skulls from Sah's bags" a police official said.
A joint team of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar police have failed to arrest the accused involved in allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh and it is suspected that he might have fled to Nepal taking advantage of the porous border, police said on Tuesday.
'He has always loved to help people. He has donated his blood three times'
Deputy Inspector General Arvind Pandey told rediff.com in Patna that 15 students were arrested from Bihta, 35 km from Patna, after scanning video clippings of the incident.
Students of a local high school attacked a police station and set a jeep on fire in Sitamarhi, Bihar on Monday to protest against alleged inaction by police to arrest the accused in the suicide of a college girl.
It was suspected that the rebels had procured the explosive material for making landmines and bombs.
The Centre on Thursday disputed in the Supreme Court the figure pertaining to alleged attacks on Christian institutions and priests, terming the data "wrong" and claiming the petitioners wanted to keep "the pot boiling" to sully the image of the country abroad.
A Bihar court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against Maharashtra Navnirman chief chief Raj Thackeray for making "hate speeches" against Biharis and asked the Mumbai police commissioner to produce him before it on November 2.
Maoist ultras blasted an additional health centre and a training centre at Pangalwa village under Darhara police station in Bihar's Munger district in the wee hours on Saturday, Superintendent of Police Sridhar Mandal said.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on the six persons sentenced to 20-year imprisonment, out of the eight crew members who were on board the merchant vessel 'Henry'.
Shops, schools and other commercial establishments were closed in parts of Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab but the shutdown call by anti-reservation bodies had little impact elsewhere in the country.
A Naxalite died in police custody on Thursday at Barun police station area in Bihar's Aurangabad district following which Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ordered a probe into the incident
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.
