On Tuesday, the Nitish Kumar-led government decided to withdraw 32 personnel of Bihar Military Police posted at the former Bihar CM's residence.
The Bihar Police has decided to provide group insurance cover to more than 44,000 policemen deployed in sixteen Maoist-affected districts in the state, officials said on Monday.
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.
B Raman feels one has to emphasise the importance of balance in the television discussions while the hostage-taking situation continues.
Four Bihar military police jawans were killed and another was seriously injured when Maoists spayed bullets on a police patrol in Bihar's Aurangabad district on Monday, the police said.
Maoists on Monday unconditionally released the three abducted Bihar policemen in Lakhisarai district, bringing an end to the nine-day-old hostage crisis.
The Election Commission is making sure that the winds of potential change cause no disruption in the counting process.
At least nine policemen including officer in charge of a police station were killed on Monday when suspected Naxalites attacked them in Bihar's Nawada district, police sources said.
Unprecedented chaos erupted inside the Bihar assembly on Tuesday when police was called inside to assist the marshals in evicting unruly opposition members who tried to physically prevent the Speaker from taking his Chair.
Sources said about 200 rounds of fire were exchanged between the police and Maoists during the encounter, which lasted for about three hours.
In Jehanabad jail, dozens of dreaded Maoist guerillas as well as activists of banned Ranvir Sena, a private army of landed upper caste-Bhumihar, are lodged.
The disappearance of four AK-47 rifles and an Insas rifle was detected on Sunday, when the armoury was opened for a routine weekly cleaning of weapons of the BMP 6th battalion.
Rabri Devi is contesting from Raghopur.
12 Naxalite-hit districts will be voting.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal and his associate were flown to Delhi by a special plane to Patna on Friday afternoon.
More than 24 families who had fled arson-hit Ajizpur village have returned home even as 3 policemen have been sent to police lines in connection with the violence which resulted in the death of 5 persons, including an abducted youth.
A total 95 deaths deaths were reported since Friday morning, of which 37 in Maharashtra, 24 in Gujarat, nine in West Bengal, seven in Madhya Pradesh, four each from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, three from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and two from Delhi and one each from Punjab and Haryana.
Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi who has come under attack of the Bharatiya Janata Party over reports of his son getting involved in alleged sexual escapade with a lady policewoman, on Saturday defended his son saying anybody could have a "girl friend".
Three policemen were shot dead and two injured by armed Maoists in a running train near Jamalpur railway station in Bihar's Munger district on Saturday evening.
A jawan of the Special Task Force was killed and two others were injured when Maoists fired at them in Bihar's Jamui district in the wee hours of Friday.
The National Investigation Agency has released two local men for want of evidence in the serial bomb blasts at Bodh Gaya temple on Sunday.
At least 14 persons have been arrested in connection with Sunday's violence in a village in Bihar's Muzaffapur in which three persons were charred to death when a mob torched nine houses following recovery of body of an abducted youth.
Nearly 300 persons were arrested in the anti-cheating operations across Bihar, even as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar admitted that reports of rampant use of unfair means in the ongoing matriculation examination had sullied the image of the state.
Reports of stopping of trains and road blocks are coming in from Patna following the bandh called by the Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar against withholding of the caste-based census data by the central government.
The Bihar government on Wednesday issued shoot-at-sight orders against troublemakers and made tight security arrangements to ensure violence free polling in 6 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats to be held on Thursday.
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