Bihar government has finally suspended the DMCH superintendent Dr Shankar Jha over the pasting of 'bhukamp' stickers on the forehead of quake victims last month, officials said.
Engineers quit their jobs in Bihar's Darbhanga district after their colleagues were shot dead for refusing to pay protection money to local goons.
The bandh was called by Left parties in protest against CAA and NRC. It is being supported by several small political parties of the state.
'Yogi Adityanath is working for one caste only and suppressing the others,' Bihar Minister and NDA ally Mukesh Sahni tells M I Khan.
Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad's 'samdhi' Chandrika Roy has been nominated by the Janata Dal- United from his traditional Parsa assembly seat, but name of the former Director General of Police Gupteshwar Pandey is missing from the list of 115 candidates released by the party on Wednesday.
Rail and road traffic remained disrupted at several places even as the toll mounted to 64 with four more deaths reported from the worst-hit Darbhanga district in the past 24 hours.
Chief Ministers of both states announced Rs 4 lakh ex gratia to the next kin of the deceased.
The worst-hit Sitamarhi district accounted for 22 deaths.
'I don't think I can go back home before the lockdown is lifted because Nitishji has said he will not allow students from Kota to return.'
But the overall flood situation in the state improved with major rivers maintaining a receding trend.
The toll in the killer nor'wester in Bihar rose to 54 as reports of 12 more deaths came from the 12 ravaged districts on Thursday.
'Hundreds of engineers have complained that they are being threatened by criminals for allotment of contracts and extortion.'
From the Yadav-dominated Madhepura to the Brahmin-dominated Darbhanga and Bhumihar-dominated Begusarai -- three of the seven parliamentary constituencies in Bihar -- that go to vote on April 30 are crucial for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as it will be a test of his 'development model'.
Araria accounted for 20 flood deaths, followed by Sitamarhi (11), West Champaran (9), Kisanganj (8), Madhubani and Purnea (5 each), Madhepura and Darbhanga (4 each), East Champaran (3), Sheohar (2) and Supual (1), said Anirudh Kumar, special secretary in the state disaster management department.
Sabir Ali's stint in the Bharatiya Janata Party lasted for a couple of hours. Accused of being a Yasin Bhatkal sympathiser, till only a few days back he belonged to a party that has been accused of going soft on terrorists. Vicky Nanjappa analyses if there's any truth to these allegations
Of the 9 results declared, 7 has been won by BJP while Janata Dal-United scored victory at two places, Election Commission said.
Purnea bore the brunt of the Nor'wester with a maximum of 38 deaths.
At least 42 persons were killed and over 80 seriously injured when a tropical storm ravaged 12 districts of Bihar on Tuesday night, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Wednesday.
Two days after twin blasts rocked Hyderabad, a team of the National Investigation Agency raided several places including villages in Bihar's Darbhanga and Samastipur districts in search of operatives of Indian Mujahideen, police officials said on Saturday.
'If you perform well, if you do your best, it stays with the viewer. That's how you grow.'
Rai hinted that his daughter might contest the coming assembly polls.
The Karnataka police have arrested a suspected terrorist from Bihar's Darbhanga district, prompting Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to raise objection against the unilateral police action.
The BJP's manifesto speaks about the Prime Minister's vision of making 'Atmanirbhar Bihar'.
Fast Track Court -IV additional district judge Sunil Kumar Singh passed the order awarding capital punishment to Indal Kumar Sharma alias Indra Thakur under section 302 of the IPC.
Nikhat Parween, wife of terror suspect Fasih Mehmood, who was arrested on Monday for his involvement in the bomb blasts in Delhi and Bengaluru, said her husband was innocent and his arrest unlawful.
Working in perfect coordination, the Delhi police, the National Investigation Agency and the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad have managed to crack the Pune blasts case. They have also busted a major module of the Indian Mujahideen and arrested three suspects -- Asad from Aurangabad, Imran Khan from Nanded and Sayeed from Pune. Four kg of explosives, eight detonators and nine volt batteries were found to be in possession of the arrested accused.
The local boys used to harass girls at a government residential school.
Amra Jamal has left behind her family and village in Bihar to trace her son, Fasih Mehmood, who went missing after being allegedly arrested in Saudi Arabia and deported to India on terror charges. M I Khan reports
Flood victims have been fighting for survival and living in temporary shelters nearby railway tracks with lack of food items. They are yet to get any help from the government, reports M I Khan.
Naquee Ahmed, one of the 13/7 blasts accused, was in contact with Indian Mujahideen's elusive chief operative Yasin Bhatkal through a popular social networking site since 2008, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad claimed on Sunday.Naquee, who hails from Darbhanga district of Bihar, was initially arrested on January 10 this year on charges of forgery for allegedly procuring mobile phone SIM cards using fake documents.
A Mumbai court on Thursday extended the police custody of two suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives, arrested in connection with July 13 triple blasts, till February 10 after Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad sought to probe into the source of explosive materials and possible future terror targets.
Wives, daughters, daughter-in-law, son and brother, all linked to politicians, are in the fray for the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls with the Congress fielding the maximum number of political dynasts.
Floods have forced people to eat rats to survive as there is nothing left to eat. M I Khan reports from Patna.
Faseeh Mahmood, an engineer from Dammam in Saudi Arabia, was brought to India on terror charges a couple of days ago. While his arrest is officially pending confirmation, sources say that this man, who hails from Darbhanga in Bihar, is being questioned in connection with certain terror incidents undertaken by the Indian Mujahideen in the country.
The toll in the Bihar floods on Friday rose to 96 with three children drowning in Begusarai district as the overall situation improved with the major rivers maintaining a receding trend, official sources said. The three children drowned in the River Bagmati at Kaura village under Gadhpura police station in flood-hit Begusarai district on Friday morning.
