Vigilance raids places of rural dev dept engineer

PATNA, Oct. 16 -- Sleuths of Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) on Thursday conducted searches at four locations linked to Chandrashekhar Singh, an executive engineer in the Rural Development Depart... Read More

Anant-Neeraj feud deepens as NDA, INDIA bloc face fissures

PATNA, Oct. 16 -- The public feud between JD(U) leaders Anant Kumar Singh and Neeraj Kumar intensified on Thursday, a week before the October 23 Bihar Legislative Council elections, with the Mokama ML... Read More

Rs.80L codeine-based cough syrup seized in Kaimur, two arrested

BHABUA, Oct. 16 -- Codeine-based cough syrup worth Rs.80 lakh and hidden in bags of beaten rice on a Uttar Pradesh registration truck was seized by excise department officials in Kaimur on Thursday. A... Read More

SSB seizes over 5 quintals cannabis at Nepal border

SUPAUL, Oct. 16 -- In one of the major seizures of narcotics, the border police force Seema Sashastra Bal (SSB) seized over five quintals of ganja (marijuana) worth over Rs.2 crore in a raid in a vill... Read More

Land surveyor held for taking bribe in Purnea

PURNEA, Oct. 16 -- Vigilance sleuths on Thursday arrested a government revenue official known as amin or land surveyor for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs.20,000 from a farmer against the measuremen... Read More

'Coffins in courtyard': Families mourn little ones lost too soon

RAGHOPUR, Oct. 15 -- Bagtaan Tola village of Rampur Shyamchand panchayat is marooned in grief. Thirteen of its children are dead. Villagers are grieving with wailing mothers. It was a heart-wrenching ... Read More

SHO, CO face action as Bihar probes boat crash

RAGHOPUR (VAISHALI), Oct. 15 -- The district administration of Vaishali on Wednesday sought clarification from Circle Officer (CO) and station house officer (SHO) of Raghopur police station for inacti... Read More

AKU V-C gets guv's show-cause for 'absence'

PATNA, Oct. 15 -- Bihar Lok Bhavan has served show-cause to Aryabhatt Knowledge University (AKU) VC Sharad Kumar Yadav for "unauthorised absence from the headquarters". The Governor, who is the Chance... Read More

Overloaded, leaking boats cause frequent calamities

PATNA, Oct. 15 -- A small, leaking boat carrying 20-25 villagers capsized late Tuesday in the dark waters of the Ganga near Raghopur diara in Vaishali. At least 13 people, most of them minors, drowned... Read More

2 dead, 15 suffer burns as LPG leak leads to inferno

PATNA, Oct. 15 -- Two people were charred to death while 15 suffered burn injuries after a fire broke out while a domestic LPG cylinder was being replaced at a house in Safiabad in Gopalganj district ... Read More

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