Acharya will contest from Saran while Bharti will try her luck in the Patliputra LS constituency.
Ranjan was shot dead by criminals near the Siwan railway station on Friday.
Bihar Police Additional Director General Sunil Kumar had earlier said that the five men were engaged by contract killer Mian, known to be close to Shahabuddin.
Acting on a tip-off, the police raided two houses and the RJD's office and took them into custody while they were trying to flee, Sanjay said.
Veteran Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Awadh Bihari Chaudhary was on Friday unanimously elected as speaker of the Bihar legislative assembly.
The RJD polled the highest vote share in Bihar, but it was not reflected in the number of seats it won.
Rajdeo, who was the Siwan bureau chief of the newspaper, was shot dead on May 13 at a busy fruit market near Siwan railway station.
The order to kill journalist Rajdeo Ranjan, the police say, was issued from Siwan jail.
The much-hyped liquor ban in the state has been widely seen as a failed attempt five years after its introduction.
The accused say a close aide of former RJD MP Shahabuddin gave them a supari to kill Ranjan.
On the road rage incident in Gaya, Kumar said, "... when I saw in the media the (journalist's) family's demand for a CBI probe, I personally asked the DGP (director general of police) to send a police team to acquaint the family with probe (being conducted by the state police).
Bihar Director General of Police P K Thakur on Monday said that the ongoing investigation into the killing of a senior journalist in Siwan district had suggested that a 'supari' (contract) had been given to kill him.
According to Singh, four youths entered in his office and wanted to know that who had written the news about man arrested for intimidating voters during Panchayat elections a few days ago.
Majority of these constituencies are in Uttar Pradesh and the party that is on the third slot even as the counting is still underway on several seats is the Bahujan Samaj Party, a party neither with the National Democratic Alliance nor the opposition INDIA bloc.
President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife Savita Devi on Friday boarded a special train from Safdarjung railway station in New Delhi for his native place in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
His name has cropped up in connection with the abduction and suspected murder of CPI-ML activist Munna Chaudhary in 2001.
A voter turnout of 10.82 per cent was recorded till 9 am on Saturday in 58 constituencies in six states and two Union territories where polling is underway in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
The last time a President travelled by train was in 2006 when A P J Abdul Kalam boarded a special train from Delhi to Dehradun to attend the passing-out parade of the Indian Military Academy cadets.
Mohammad Shahabuddin, in prison for over a decade, still inspires fear, a reminder of the 'jungle raj' when political murders were commonplace in Bihar.
Ranjan was one of the 23 people named in the 'death warrant list' issued in 2007. Seven of them have been killed so far.
The EC said polling percentage in the Anantnag-Rajouri seat in Jammu and Kashmir is the highest in 40 years.
An approximate voter turnout of 59.06 per cent was recorded in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Saturday in 58 constituencies across six states and two Union territories with the polling percentage in the Jangal Mahal region of West Bengal touching 78.19.
The NDA has called for the bandh to protest against the removal of director general of police D P Ojha.
Many bahubalis have fielded their wives and relatives as proxies.
Chief Ministers of both states announced Rs 4 lakh ex gratia to the next kin of the deceased.
Why are far right Hindu organisations growing in strength? Why is there a rising subscription to Neo-Wahabism, the Saudi Arabian version of contemporary Islam?
Patna-resident Gaurav Rai has helped save the lives of over 1,100 patients in home isolation in the state capital and other parts of Bihar so far by providing oxygen cylinders free of cost.
Modi will start his Sunday election tour with a rally in Chapra, the political bastion of Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad. As per the itinerary, from Chapra he will go to Samastipur to address a public meeting in Housing Board ground, then at Gandhi maidan in Motihari and will end the campaign trip with a rally in Bagaha.
Besides the national capital, polling will be held Saturday in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, all 10 seats of Haryana, eight seats each in Bihar and West Bengal, six seats in Odisha, four seats in Jharkhand and one seat in Jammu and Kashmir. Simultaneously, polling will be held for 42 assembly constituencies in Odisha.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday embarked on his 'Seva Yatra' to tour all districts of the state to review the implementation of development schemes and the Right to Service Act.
In yet another blow to jailed RJD MP Mohammed Shahabuddin, a special court in Bihar's Siwan district on Friday sentenced him to one-year rigorous imprisonment in a case, in which he threatened to kill officer in-charge of a police station.
Buta orders judicial inquiry into police firing in Bihar
The death of a suspected thief, Govind Rajbhar, in police custody early Friday in Siwan district has angered people in Bihar. Rajbhar is alleged to have been beaten and tortured by the police.
The Assistant Commercial Manager, Sonepur division, East Central Railway, N K Singh said Choudhury was in the AC first class coach of the 2553 Barauni-New Delhi Vaishali Express.
Bihar government shifts 8 SPs, 2 DIGs on EC directive
The Rediff Labs team analyses the growth of the districts across the state by calculating the percentage change from 2001 to 2013 in three major fields
The really disturbing numbers relate to inequality.
Bihar Chief Electoral Officer H R Srinivasa said the Election Commission has established a three-tier security system for strong rooms (housing the electronic voting machines) and the counting centres. The inner core is being guarded by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), then there is the Bihar Military Police (BMP) and then the district police, he told reporters.
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