A few weeks after welcoming a calf of giraffe, the Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park commonly known as Patna zoo has another addition as a tigress has given birth to quadruplets on Wednesday.

An SUV carrying liquor deliberately crushed an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police to death when he tried to stop the vehicle near Tikri village under the Hussainganj police station area in Siwan district around 3am on Thursday.

Deputy chief minister Tarkishore Prasad had a close shave on Thursday when the dais, where he was sitting, suddenly collapsed during the inauguration of a religious programme here. The deputy CM was about to light the inaugural lamp on the dais, when it fell with a thud. He, however, escaped unscathed.

In a major push to textile and leather industry, the state cabinet on Thursday gave its nod to Bihar Industrial Investment Promotion (Textile and Leather) Policy, 2022 or Bihar Textile and Leather Policy. Among other provisions, the policy envisages capital investment subsidy of up to Rs 10 crore as well as freight subsidy up to Rs 10 lakh per year. Besides, the power tariff for such units will be Rs 2 per unit in order to provide competitive electricity rate to the industrial units to be set up

The National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021, report of which was released on Wednesday, revealed that the state suffered a deep learning crisis during the Covid pandemic as the performance of students in different subjects in all levels (classes 3, 5, 8 and 10) drastically declined when

Amid the uncertainty over Union minister RCP Singh being sent to Rajya Sabha by the JD(U) for the third consecutive term, the bureaucrat-turned-politician called on Bihar CM and partys de-factor leader Nitish Kumar on Thursday evening.

CM Nitish Kumar on Wednesday launched 22 buildings of different engineering colleges and polytechnics worth Rs 1,087.27 crore across the state. Of them, 17 new buildings worth Rs893.60 crore were inaugurated while foundation stones were laid for 5 buildings worth Rs193.

Despite regular eviction drive conducted by the district administration along with Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC), most of the major city roads and commercial areas remain choked because of encroachments on both sides.

The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of state police on Wednesday raided the residential premises and office of Rupaspur police station SHO Madhusudan on the charges of accumulating assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

After ten days of the theft in several flats of an apartment at Anandpuri locality, the city police finally cracked the case and arrested 10 persons, including three women, on Wednesday.

The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday announced that polling to fill seven vacant seats in the Bihar legislative council will be held on June 20.The schedule for the biennial election was fixed ahead of the July 21 retirement of seven members.

RCPs current term in the Rajya Sabha is expiring on July 7 and if the JD(U) does not send him to the Rajya Sabha for a third consecutive term, he would have to quit the post of cabinet minister.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday took suo-motu cognizance of media reports that at least six persons have died and twelve fallen ill after they consumed spurious liquor in Aurangabad and Gaya districts of Bihar.

According to the police, the shop owner Munna Kumar was at his shop and the salesmen had gone for the lunch when the two miscreants posing as customers got off a motorcycle and entered the shop.

While the Aurangabad district administration said three people died due to consumption of spurious liquor and three were undergoing treatment in private hospitals

Putting all speculations to rest, state parliamentary affairs minister and senior JD(U) functionary Vijay Kumar Choudhary on Tuesday said an all-party meeting on caste-based census in the state would be held on June 1.

State assembly speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, who won the assembly election from Lakhisarai constituency on a BJP ticket, on Tuesday expressed serious concern over the rising crime graph in his home district and said he would apprise CM Nitish Kumar about it.

Hundreds of students of Magadh University took out a protest march in the state capital on Tuesday over the delay in examinations and start of academic session.

The water of the Ganga was lifted at Hathidah Ghat in Mokama and brought to Motnaje water treatment plant in Nawada district through a pipeline as a trial run for the ambitious Ganga water lift project on Tuesday.

Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University (KSDSU) is facing rough weather these days due to its vice-chancellor (VC) Sashi Nathh Jha and registrar Satyendra Narayan Singh being at loggerheads since the latter joined the university on March 3. VC has been found proposing and registrar disposing, said an insider in the university.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Tuesday conducted raids at around seven locations in Jharkhand and Bihar in a money laundering case involving IAS officer Pooja Singhal and others.

An over 7-hour-long hostage crisis, in which three of a family and six police personnel were kept captive at gunpoint, was brought to an end by deft handling of the situation by the Bettiah Police on Monday. Ironically, the man who held them hostage claimed to be a Bihar Police officer aspirant.

Acting on CM Nitish Kumar's directive, the Bihar government has planned to hold an all-party meeting over holding caste census in the state on May 27.

The city will get its first fully automated smart parking lot in the next 45 days, Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) commissioner Animesh Parashar said on Monday.

Two persons died allegedly after consuming spurious liquor in Ghosai village under Chausa police station in Madhepura district since Sunday evening. The deceased were identified as Abhinav of Ghosai and his brother-in-law Alok Jha from Saharsa district.

At least eight labourers died and ten others were injured after a truck they were travelling in overturned on NH-57 under Jalalgarh police station area in Purnia district on Monday morning. The truck, laden with iron pipes, was on its way from Siliguri to Jammu.

CM Nitish Kumar on Monday launched Kharif Mahaabhiyan-2022 by flagging of a total of 59 Krishi Rath and Micro-Irrigation Rath to all 38 districts for propagating new farm techniques and other related information among the farmers under the Kharif season.

A minister in the Nitish cabinet on Monday telephoned senior leaders of all political parties to inquire whether they are available in Patna on May 27 to attend the proposed all-party meeting over caste-census or the date should be deferred to a few days.

JD(U) senior leader Aneel Prasad Hegde (61) was on Monday elected uncontested in the by-election to one vacant seat of the Rajya Sabha from Bihar, as he was the lone candidate.

At least eight labourers were killed, while ten others got injured including driver and helper, after a truck laden with iron pipes overturned on the National Highway-57 (Siliguri-Delhi four-lane) under Jalalgarh police station in Purnea district on Monday morning.

At least 14,337 old trees have been identified in East Champaran for protection and nourishment under 'Guardian of Champaran', a unique campaign launched by the district administration in June last year.

Two persons died allegedly after consuming spurious liquor in Aurangabad district on Sunday. Sub-inspector Sudarshan Chaudhary, in-charge of prohibition unit of Madanpur police station, and a village chowkidar were suspended for negligence in this connection, Aurangabad SP Kantesh Kumar Mishra said. Three persons allegedly involved in sales of liquor have been arrested, he said.

In a significant change, Patna University (PU) now accepts PhD thesis for evaluation only in spiral binding format. The thesis is to be hardbound after its revision, incorporating the suggestions made by the examiners.

RJD is yet to announce its two candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections as the CBI raids on party chief Lalu Prasads wife Rabri Devis residence and other locations related to his kin are likely to impact the selection process, sources said.

The RJD continued its attack on the CBI and BJP on Sunday for conducting raids on the residence of former CM Rabri Devi in Patna and 15 other locations on Friday following an FIR lodged against party chief Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri and their two daughters besides others in land-for-job in

The students of Dr Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University (RPCAU) at Pusa in Samastipur went on the rampage in protest against the death of a BTech student in road accident Saturday night.

Four youths drowned while taking a bath in the Ganga near Rajapur Pul Ghat under Buddha Colony police station area in Patna on Sunday. Three bodies were fished out while search continued for the one youth missing.

I have no information, nothing to say. Only those involved in the matter can comment, said Kumar, who runs his government in alliance with the BJP.

Girls once again outsmarted boys by bagging as many as 25 out of the 38 gold medals awarded to the toppers of postgraduate examinations at Patna University annual convocation on Saturday. Altogether 1330 scholars passed the postgraduate examinations in 2018-20 sessions of whom 732 are girls.

Even as Covid-19 cases have been declining across the country, the railways has decided to implement fresh guidelines in light of an SOP (standard operating procedure) issued by ministry of home affairs (MHA) to follow Covid-19 protocol by passengers during their journey in trains.

The proposed Film City at Rajgir, land acquisition for which was completed by the state government recently, is likely to be named after late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

A woman was allegedly lynched while three persons were badly scorched as a local mob torched seven houses in Lerua village under Maharajganj police station area in Siwan district on Saturday morning following protest over the murder of 20-year-old Sagar Sah, son of Sanjay Sah, of the same

Will Bihar CM and JD(U)s de-facto leader Nitish Kumar send Union steel minister RCP Singh to the Rajya Sabha for third consecutive term? The million-dollar question is doing the rounds in Bihar political circles these days.

RCPs second term in the Rajya Sabha is expiring on July 7 and if he is not re-nominated for the Rajya Sabha by his political mentor Nitish, he would have to resign as cabinet minister of the Narendra Modi government. RCP is the only minister from JD(U) in the Modi government.

Senior JD(U) leader and Bihars rural development minister Shrawan Kumar was on Saturday appointed the partys in-charge of Jharkhand state unit with immediate effect.

She is under treatment at the government medical college, Bettiah.

Amit, a native of Madhepura district, is allegedly a member of the solver gang. He was constantly in touch with the accused, Anand Gaurav alias Pintu Yadav, on cellphone.

The appellants, including the former MP, were earlier found guilty of murdering Singh, for which an FIR was registered on May 24, 2009 at Srikrishnapuri police station in Patna.