Subodh Paswan

Criminals gunned down the son of Usfa panchayat member at Sudiha village under the Gaurichak police station area in Patna on Monday. The victim was identified as Virendra Kumar (21), son of Rampreet Ravidas and ward member Kiran Devi.

Vice president of Pakridayal Nagar Panchayat Manoj Jaiswal, who was critically injured in Wednesday’s indiscriminate firing by four motorcycle-borne criminals at a shop in Pakridayal, died at a private nursing home here on Thursday.

Three BJP workers died on the spot when the bus they were travelling in met with an accident on Wednesday morning near Dumaria along Deoghar-Godda road under Mohanpur police station of Deoghar district.

A tragic accident in Muzaffarpur claimed the life of a 13-year-old girl and injured three others when a truck snagged a low-hanging wire, causing an electric pole to fall. The incident occurred as a group of students walked to school. Police are investigating the poorly maintained power infrastructure and the driver, who fled the scene.

The police on Wednesday arrested the owner of a computer centre in Nagercoil, a town near Kudankulam, for providing fake identification documents to a person from Uttar Pradesh, who worked at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) in Tirunelveli district, for more than a year.

Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Friday slammed chief minister Nitish Kumar for deteriorating law and order situation in the state.

HAJIPUR: Following unprecedented scarcity of kerosene oil in Vaishali district, majority of people have no option but to buy the oil at an exorbitant price of Rs 25 to 45 per litre from the black market.

Former Union minister and state BJP’s dalit face Sanjay Paswan said on Wednesday the Samajwadi Party (SP) alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in UP would ultimately be to the advantage of the saffron party.

PATNA: The state cabinet, in keeping with the amendments in the Bihar Universities Act, reserved seats for scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs), most backward castes (MBCs), and backward women in admission to different types of educational institutions.

An assistant sub-inspector and a liquor smuggler was shot when a police team chasing bootleggers came under their attack on railway tracks behind P & T Club near R-Block in Patna on Saturday morning.

The infamous Prince Kumar, a fugitive linked to murder and a slew of other grave crimes, met his end during a police shootout in Vaishali. With a bounty of Rs 2 lakh on his head and a history of evading law enforcement, Kumar's reign of terror has finally been halted.

The acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) has proved a nightmare for several villages in Muzaffarpur and its neighbouring districts where people have seen their children dying due to brain fever over the past two decades.