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SC refuses to entertain plea of Bihar YouTuber against invoking NSA
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea of jailed Bihar YouTuber Manish Kashyap against whom the stringent National Security Act (NSA) has been invoked for allegedly circulating…
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Success stories of Bihar women entrepreneurs to be showcased in G20 meet
Patna: The Bihar government will highlight the rise of rural women entrepreneurs breaking all barriers and the success of the World Bank-backed village livelihood programme Jeevika’ among several other socio-economic programmes during…
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Caste-based census will happen at any cost: Lalu
Patna: A day after the Patna High Court put an interim stay on the caste-based survey, RJD national president Lalu Prasad said the survey is the demand of a majority of people…
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Committed to conduct caste-based survey in Bihar, says Tejashwi
Patna: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday said that he is committed to the caste-based census in Bihar and despite the Patna High Court’s interim stay, asserted that it will…
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Patna High Court stays caste survey in Bihar
Patna: The Patna High Court on Thursday put an interim stay on the enumeration of castes and economic survey in Bihar. On Wednesday, the Patna HC completed the hearing and reserved its…
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Bihar law minister says ‘if you want UP style of governance, shut courts’
Patna: While the BJP leaders are advocating a Yogi Adityanath style of governance in Bihar, state Law Minister Shamim Ahmed has said that first it needs to close all the courts and…
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Petition accusing Amit Shah of spreading communal tension filed
Darbhanga: A Congress leader in Bihar on Tuesday filed a petition before a court accusing Union Home Minister Amit Shah of spreading communal tensions and tarnishing the party’s reputation. The petition was…
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‘Am still alive’: Bihar man ‘killed’ 6 months ago tells CM, DGP
Patna: A Bihar man, declared dead in a police record nearly six months ago, wrote to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the DGP, SP, Gopalganj and SHO, Deoria police station, claiming that he…
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Giriraj Singh dares Bihar govt to stop Dhirendra Shastri’s Patna visit
Patna: Politics over the visit of self-styled godman Dhirendra Shastri continues in Bihar with Union minister Giriraj Singh on Monday challenging the leaders of the Mahagathbandhan to stop him from coming to…
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Minor thief tied to pole, brutally thrashed in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur
Patna: Mob ‘justice’ has become frequent in Bihar and one such incident was reported from Muzaffarpur district on Sunday when a thief was tied to an electric pole and brutally beaten by…
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Wife of slain IAS officer moves SC against Anand Mohan’s release
New Delhi: The wife of IAS officer G. Krishnaiah, who was lynched in 1994 by a mob led by former Bihar MP Anand Mohan Singh, has moved the Supreme Court against the…
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Ram Navami violence: Former BJP MLA surrenders in Sasaram
Patna: Former BJP MLA Jawahar Prasad has surrendered before a district court in Bihar’s Sasaram in connection with communal violence during Ram Navami celebrations on March 31. A Non-Bailable Warrant (NBW) was…
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Conducting caste-based survey no crime, says Bihar CM
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday reacted with exasperation over the opposition faced by the head count of caste’ underway in the state, saying that holding such a survey is…
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Gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan walks out of jail amidst protests
Patna: Gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan, who was serving a life sentence for killing an IAS officer in Bihar three decades ago, walked out on Thursday amid protests by family members and well-wishers of…
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Bihar: Gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh released
Saharsa: Gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh was released from Bihar’s Saharsa jail early Thursday morning, a jail official confirmed. Singh’s release was necessitated after the Bihar government recently amended the prison rules allowing…