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No change from Nitish's UCC stance: JD(U) leader

PATNA, Sept. 15 -- Union home minister Amit Shah's statement that the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) would be introduced in all NDA-ruled states by 2029 has stirred a political debate in Bihar where JD(U), ... Read More


Guv summons AKU VC as probe panel 'prevented'

PATNA, Sept. 15 -- The Chancellor's office has summoned the Aryabhatt Knowledge University (AKU) VC Sharad Kumar Yadav as the Governor wants to call him in the wake of the unsavoury incident with the ... Read More


Bihar CM exhorts teachers to bring students to classrooms

PATNA, Sept. 14 -- Chief minister Samrat Choudhary on Sunday said that Bihar would need to draw students to classrooms for creating the right ambience to transform higher education and to achieve that... Read More


Lok Bhavan forms panel to rectify asst prof hiring

PATNA, Sept. 13 -- Bihar Lok Bhavan has constituted a high-level committee to suggest reforms in the recruitment process for assistant professors in state universities, which has been mired in controv... Read More


Suggestion to name JD(U) after Nitish kicks off debate in Bihar

PATNA, Sept. 12 -- Janata Dal (United) working president and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Jha's statement that the party should be named after former Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has triggered a deb... Read More


Sanjay Jha suggests renaming JD(U) as 'Janata Dal (Nitish)'

PATNA, Sept. 12 -- The Janata Dal (United) working president and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Jha's suggestion that the party be renamed Janata Dal (Nitish) has put the spotlight on the party's identity ... Read More


HC quashes dismissal of Buxar jail warden, overturns '18 termination

PATNA, Sept. 11 -- The Patna High Court on Wednesday quashed the dismissal of jail wardern Upendra Das, who was removed from service in 2018 following a 2016 prisoner escape incident at Buxar Central ... Read More


Battle for 8 seat council polls heats up

PATNA, Sept. 10 -- The Bihar Legislative Council elections for eight seats - four each from the graduate and teachers' constituencies - scheduled in November has started getting intense even before th... Read More


Liquor case accused gets bail in dry Bihar, asked to pay to beautify court

India, Sept. 9 -- The Patna high court has granted anticipatory bail to a man accused of possessing liquor in Khagaria in Bihar, where prohibition was imposed in 2016, on the condition that he contrib... Read More


Lalu slams govt over flood crisis, targets 'Nitish Samvad' launch

PATNA, Sept. 9 -- Amidst devastating flood across Bihar and the JD(U) launching 'Nitish Samvad' across the state, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday took to X to attack the Centre and the state go... Read More