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Bihar: All-party meet welcomes caste survey, BJP says there are irregularities
Patna: Bihar’s all party meeting, which was called by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday, has welcomed the caste based survey released by the Bihar government. However, BJP said that there appear…
- India
Transgenders not happy with caste survey in Bihar, calls it ‘fake’
Patna: After Bihar on Monday became the first state in the country to release data from a caste-based survey, the transgender community in the state has expressed its displeasure over the report.…
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Bihar: Violent communal clash rocks Gopalganj, several injured
Communal clashes erupted between two groups in Bihar’s Gopalganj district during Mahavir Akhara procession on Sunday, October 1. The incident took place near a mosque in Chiktoli area which falls under the…
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Giriraj Singh terms Bihar govt’s caste-based survey as false
Patna: Hours after Bihar became the first state in the country to release data from a caste-based survey, senior BJP leader and Union minister Giriraj Singh on Monday put a question mark…
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OBCs, EBCs comprise over 63% of Bihar’s population: Caste survey
Patna: The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar on Monday released findings of its much-awaited caste survey, which revealed that OBCs and EBCs constitute a whopping 63 per cent of the state’s total…
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Bihar: Dalit driver lynched after accident on Patna’s outskirts
Patna: The driver of a pick-up van was beaten to death on Patna’s outskirts on Sunday after he mowed down a three-year-old girl, police said. The incident was reported from Sogahi Kushpur…
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Passenger ‘misbehaves’ on IndiGo flight from Hyderabad to Patna
Patna: A ‘disabled’ passenger was detained for allegedly “misbehaving” and “locking himself” inside a bathroom onboard an Indigo Hyderabad-Patna flight following a complaint against him by the crew, officials said. The alleged…
- India
NCSC member questions working style of Patna Police in Khusrupur urination case
Patna: A team of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) raised questions over the working style of Patna Police in the Khusrupur incident, where a Dalit woman was stripped, and brutally…
- India
Bihar: 6 men gang-rape minor girl near Patna; accused held
Patna: A 14-year-old girl was gang raped by six men in a village on the outskirts of Patna, police said, adding that three of the accused have been arrested. According to the…
- India
Bihar CM makes surprise check on ministers, finds several missing from office
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday conducted surprise checks at various ministries and found a majority of ministers and Additional Chief Secretaries (ACS) and Secretaries coming late or absent. When…
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Bihar: Urination on Dalit women’s mouth could not be established during probe, say cops
Patna: Two days after a Dalit woman alleged that she was stripped, assaulted and urinated on her mouth by a moneylender and his associates in Bihar’s Patna district apparently for complaining to…
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Bihar: Dalit woman stripped, thrashed, and urinated on by creditor, CM assures action
Patna: A Dalit woman was allegedly stripped, assaulted and urinated on her mouth by a moneylender and his associates in Bihar’s Patna district apparently for complaining to the police about his “unjustified”…
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Nitish rubbishes speculations of JD(U)’s return to NDA
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday rubbished speculations in a section of the media about his party JD(U)’s return to the BJP-led NDA, with which it snapped ties around a…
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Over 230 people booked for damaging Shivling in Bihar’s Begusarai
Patna: Police in Bihar’s Begusarai registered 30 named and over 200 unnamed FIRs in connection with damaging the Shivling at a temple in the district and have arrested 12 accused so far,…
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Bihar: Dalit woman stripped, beaten, and urinated upon in Patna
Patna: A Mahadalit woman was kidnapped, stripped, brutally assaulted and urinated upon in a village on Patna’s outskirts on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred at Moshimpur village under…
