All Entries in the "Bihar NEWS" Category
Bihar police to investigate hostage incident
Sep.6 (ANI): The Bihar police will conduct a probe into the incident of abduction of four policemen, one of whom was killed a few days ago and three others were freed from Naxals’ captivity in the wee hours of Monday. The decision to conduct investigation has been taken after the release of three hostages today [...]
Lalu welcomes six-phase poll in Bihar
Sep 06(PTI): Welcoming the six-phase Bihar Assembly polls schedule announced by the Election Commission today, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said it would ensure better turnout of voters. “Luckily, the dates for the elections are spread over festivals in Bihar and most of the voters will be available. I think it will help increase voters’ turnout [...]
Ram Vilas Paswan welcomes Bihar poll schedule
Sep 06(PTI): Welcoming the six-phase poll schedule for Bihar assembly announced by the Election Commission, Lok Janashakti Party president Ramvilas Paswan today demanded steps by the EC to ensure that all booths were manned by central forces. Central forces comrpisisng the CRPF and BSF should man all the polling booths to ensure ‘free, fair and [...]
BJP doesn’t say if Modi will campaign in Bihar
Sep 06(IANS): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday welcomed the announcement of assembly elections in Bihar but did not say if Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will campaign in the state. ‘We were waiting for the announcement as the BJP-JD-U (Janata Dal-United) government has done good work. We will win,’ BJP spokesman Shanawaz Hussain told [...]
Tete’s family blames Bihar government for his death
Lakhisarai/Simdega, Sep 06(ANI): Family members of Tete, one of the four captives who was killed by the rebels on Monday has blamed the Bihar Government for inefficiency in safeguarding the life of their sole earning member. The family today accused Bihar government for Tete’s death, as the three others were free the wee hours on [...]
Implement plan to tackle Naxal menace: BJP tells Centre
Sep 06(PTI): BJP on Monday welcomed the unconditional release of three abducted Bihar policemen and asked the Centre to implement the integrated plan to tackle the Naxal menace. “We welcome the unconditional release of the three Bihar police personnel by Naxalites. The NDA government in Bihar led by Nitish Kumar handled the situation with a [...]
Lalu, others appear in CBI Court
Sep 06(PTI): RJD chief Lalu Prasad, former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra today appeared in the court of designated CBI judge Vimal Kumar Jain following summons in connection with a multi-crore rupees fodder scam case. Accompanied by his counsel, Chitranjan Sinha, Mr. Prasad reached the court this morning and listed his personal appearance. Justice Jain [...]
Bihar govt can’t take credit for cop’s release
Sep 06(PTI): Bihar PCC chief Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser said, “Whatever steps were taken by the state government were positive and good. It is not the time to criticise anybody or gain political mileage over the issue of tackling Naxalism which is a sensitive issue,” he said. Kaiser appealed to the Maoists to sit across [...]
Bihar govt rejects RJD MP funds
Sep 06(The Asian Age): Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has refused to accept money from the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Fund provided by political adversaries. Calling this a “regressive” step, MPs of the Opposition RJD claimed that Mr Kumar’s aim was to “monopolise” Bihar’s development. RJD MPs Jagdanand Singh from Buxar and Raghuvansh [...]
Maoists are my brothers : Cop’s wife
Patna, Sep 06(IBNS):Kanti Devi was assured by Maoist leader Kishenji on Sunday that her husband would get freedom. “Maoists are my brothers and I thank them as well as to my God. And I’m grateful to my brothers (Maoists) for keeping words,” said Kanti Devi, with tears rolling down her cheeks while interacting with media [...]
Tears of joy, relief, festive atmosphere at freed cops” homes
Khagaria/Ranchi, Sep 6 (PTI): Tears of joy and relief swept through homes and villages of the three Bihar policemen freed by Maoists after nine days in captivity and a festival atmosphere descended amid bursting of crackers. Celebrations broke out in the policemen’s villages in Bihar and neighbouring Jharkand with residents distributing sweets and offering prayers [...]
Maize Spurts At Bihar Mandi
Sep 06(IIFL): Maize prices have gained Rs 10 per quintal in major mandies in today’s trading on the back of strong offtake by feed millers and exporters. The total arrivals of all the states have been in the range of 11000-12000 bags. While the spot prices of Nizamabad were at Rs 1120 per quintal, up [...]
Cong responsible for state’s poor economy: Modi
Patna, Sep 06(TNN): Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi said on Sunday that it was only the two non- Congress governments that Bihar in 1967 and 1977 which took the state along the path of development. According to Modi, the Samyukt Vidhayak Dal (SVD) was a unique experiment as even the CPI was part of it [...]
Workers of industries shut down fear losing jobs
Patna, Sep 06(TNN): The shutdown of a majority of industrial units in Bihar since August 31 to protest the imposition of fuel surcharge on them with a retrospective effect from October 2008 has been causing concern to workers as they fear losing their jobs if the shutdown continues. A coordination committee on electricity matters (fuel [...]
BJP attacks Rahul Gandhi for targeting Bihar govt
Patna, Sep 05(PTI): Senior BJP leader Kiran Ghai today lambasted Rahul Gandhi for his accusations during his election meetings in Bihar that central funds did not reach the targeted people in the state, saying the Congress leader had no knowledge of the country’s federal structure. “It appears that the AICC general secretary has no knowledge [...]
Seven suspected ultras held in Bihar
Munger, Sep 05(PTI): Seven suspected ultras were arrested in Bihar’s Munger district on Saturday during intensified search by security forces for securing the release of three policemen being held hostage by Maoists. “We have arrested seven suspected Naxalites from the forests during combing operations,” Deputy Superintendent of Police A.K. Chandra said.. Those arrested have been [...]
‘Abducted cops to be released in Jharkhand’
Ranchi, Sep 05(TNN): Maoists on Sunday said that the abducted policemen would be released somewhere in Jharkhand. They said that they were deliberately delaying their release to ensure that they reached their home safely. “We do not want the abducted cops to fall prey to police bullets. That would bring further ignominy to us,” said [...]
40 lakh illiterate women made literate in Bihar
Patna, Sep 05(PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said 40 lakh illiterate women were made literate under the ‘Mukhyamantri Akshar Anchal Yojana’ by two lakh teachers across the state. While addressing a government function here on the occasion of Teachers’ Day, Kumar said these two lakh teachers would be given Rs. 1000 and [...]
Bihar cops yet to be released; CRPF says Maoists divided
Patna, Sep 05(The Financial Express): As confusion prevailed on the fate of the three Bihar policemen who were abducted by Maoists last Sunday, a CRPF commandant leading the operation in Bhimbandh forest said tribal and non-tribal Maoist leaders appeared to be divided over releasing the trio. Meanwhile, chief minister Nitish Kumar and DGP Neelmani said [...]
RJD optimstic about the release of kidnapped policemen
Patna, Sep 05(PTI): Amid the prevailing uncertainty over the release of the three Bihar policemen by Maoists, the opposition RJD today expressed optimism that they would be released ‘anytime soon’. “RJD is hopeful about the release of the three policemen by the Maoists,” party national spokesman Ram Kripal Yadav told a press conference in Patna. [...]
Two electrocuted in Bihar
Motihari, Sep 05 (PTI):Two persons were electrocuted and six others suffered burn injuries as a high voltage electric wire snapped and fell on them in East Champaran district today, police said. The electric wire fell on some people standing at the taxi stand at Koeria Tola locality, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Raxaul, Rajiv Ranjan [...]
86 policemen killed by Naxals in Bihar since 2005: Statistics
Patna, Sep 05(PTI): As many as 86 policemen and over 188 civilians have lost their lives in Maoists attacks in Bihar since 2005, according to official statistics. There was no let up in Maoists attacks this year too with the latest being the killing seven policemen by the rebels in an encounter in Lakhisarai district [...]
Bihar crackdown nets rebel top gun – Hostages to be free today: Maoist
Patna/Bhagalpur, Sep 04(The Telegraph): Bihar police today claimed a breakthrough towards ending the hostage standoff by nabbing a top area commander of the CPI (Maoist) with an associate even as a rebel spokesman said the three captive policemen would be released tomorrow. The arrest of “commander” Pintoo and his aide Bahadur Yadav comes a day [...]
Bihar poll process may be over before Deepavali: EC
Sep 05(The Hindu): The Election Commission is likely to announce the dates for the Bihar Assembly elections shortly. “We will take a view shortly,” a top official of the EC told The Hindu on Saturday. The requirement of Central police forces for the poll duty was being finalised. Polling may be held in three or [...]
3 cops are alive: Naxals to Bihar govt
Patna, Sep 04: Day after Maoists killed one of the four Bihar policemen who were hostaged in Lakhisarai, 150 kilometres away from Patna since the encounter, naxals claimed that remaining three cops are safe in their hands. When Naxals left the body of Hawaldar Lukas Tete in the jungles of Lakhisari district, they left a [...]
Slain Bihar cop’s last rites performed
Sep 04 (IANS): The last rites of Bihar policeman Lucas Tete, who was killed by the Maoists in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district, were held Saturday with full state honours in his home town in Jharkhand’s Simdega district. The body of Tete, who hailed from a poor tribal family in Simdega, was found near Simratali forest in [...]
Missing teachers are India’s weakest link
Sep 05(TNN): Bihar has symbolized the Bimaru states for so long it gets blamed for everything that’s wrong with India. This week, during a heated Rajya Sabha debate on teacher shortage in schools, MPs took pot shots at Bihar. They blamed it for India’s skewed teacher-student ratio. Union human resources development minister Kapil Sibal stepped [...]
SSB beefs up vigil along Indo-Nepal border
Purina, Sep 05(TNN): Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has beefed up surveillance along the entire Bihar-Nepal border from Galgalia (Kishanganj) to Jogbani (Araria) has against the backdrop of sudden spurt in the Naxal activities in Bihar. All border outposts (BOPs) along the long and porous Bihar-Nepal border have been alerted to keep constant vigil on movement [...]
Women sexually exploited in Maoist groups: Police
Ranchi, Sep 05 (PTI): Police have alleged that the Maoists have been sexually exploiting women, especially in remote and backward villages. Most women Maoists who either surrendered or were arrested, including one who recently gave herself up in West Bengal, have alleged that they were sexually exploited, a senior Jharkhand police officer said. “They are [...]
Dabangg to have first oil fight sequence
Sep 05(PTI): Salman Khan’s eagerly awaited film Dabangg promises to be high on action, including the “first ever” oil fight sequence in Bollywood. “It is for the first time that an oil fight sequence has been included in a Hindi movie. Shooting it was fun but painful,” said Romeo, who plays an related storiesDabangg’s ‘Munni’ [...]
Paswan dissolves LJP Bihar”s extremely-weaker cell
Patna, Sep 04 (PTI): LJP’s Bihar unit extremely-weaker cell was today dissolved by party president Ramvilas Paswan with immediate effect, hours after several of its office bearers resigned charging Paswan with ‘ignoring’ them in distribution of tickets for contesting the assembly polls.”Paswan has dissolved the state party extremely-weaker committee,” LJP General Secretary Satyanand Sharma said [...]
Bihar: Combing operation expanded as hostages remain traceless
Patna, Sep 04(PTI): With the Maoists continuing to elude the police dragnet, combing operations to trace the three policemen abducted by the Naxals were on Saturday expanded to fresh areas in Bihar’s Banka, Kaimur, Jamui, Munger and Lakhisarai districts. Chief minister Nitish Kumar, who is personally monitoring the combing operation, has called an all-party meeting [...]
EVMs will be checked ahead of Bihar polls
Sep 04 (The Hindu): The Election Commission will introduce additional security measures related to electronic voting machines from the coming Bihar Assembly election. Also, a month before the Bihar polls all EVMs will be thoroughly checked in the presence of representatives of political parties. This assurance was given to a Bharatiya Janata Party delegation, which [...]
Hostage crisis: Bihar CM calls emergency meeting
Patna, Sep 4(OneIndia NEWS): After the seven days that the four police officials were abducted by the Naxals in Bihar, Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar called for an emergency all party meeting on Saturday, Sep 4. Many people have raised questions that why the state governmnet had taken so much time to take a solution of [...]
Arundhati flays cop killing, with a rider
Patna, Sep 04(TNN): “For the Maoists to kill the policemen they have kidnapped and are holding in custody in Bihar is as reprehensible as it was for the Andhra policemen to kill Azad and Hem Chandra Pandey in the way they killed them according to the autopsy report,” said Booker prize winner Arundhati Roy on [...]
With eye on Ayodhya, BJP puts off meet
Sep 04(TNN): With Bihar elections likely to be announced soon and the verdict on the Ayodhya title suit expected later this month, BJP on Friday decided to postpone its national executive meeting that was planned from September 17 in Jammu. The fact that the party is planning to take up the issue of J&K at [...]
It’s a catch-22 situation for industrialists
Patna, Sep 04(TNN): Industrialists, who have shut down their industries since September 1, find themselves in a catch-22 situation whether to continue the shutdown or restart the industries which even otherwise might close down due to imposition of fuel surcharge on their units with a retrospective effect from October 2008. Having already witnessed closure of [...]
Centre sends additional forces to Bihar to rescue abducted cops
Sep 03(ANI): The Union Home Ministry on Friday dispatched another helicopter and additional paramilitary personnel to Bihar to assist the cops in locating the three policemen, who are still in the Maoists’ custody. The Bihar Government had sought 4,000 additional paramilitary forces from the Central Government to deal with the rising Maoist violence. It has [...]
BJP delegation meets Chief Election Commissioner ahead of Bihar polls
Sep 03(ANI): A delegation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders met the Chief Election Commissioner, S Y Quraishi, here on Friday ahead of the Bihar assembly elections. “The objective of this meeting with Chief Election Commissioner was pertaining to the security and paper back up of electronic voting machines (EVMs). After a decade of using [...]
Lucas Tete’s wife, daughters in state of shock
Patna, Sep 03(IANS): Slain policeman Lucas Tete’s wife Pyari and three grown up daughters fainted several times in shock on receiving the news that his bullet-riddled body was found in a forest in Bihar on Friday. Pyari Tete and her daughters fainted time and again after they were informed about Lucas’ body being found, a [...]
Centre biased against Bihar
Patna, Sep 3 (PTI): Ruling BJP in Bihar today alleged that the Centre”s attitude towards tackling the problem relating to the growing menace of naxalism had always been biased and discriminatory. “The Centre has always been full of bias, non-cooperative and discriminatory in its attitude towards curbing Naxalites in Bihar,” BJP Vice President Kiran Ghai [...]
Bihar seeks 4,000 troopers to fight Maoists
New Delhi, Sep 3(One India): Even as the hostage crisis continues to grind on, the Bihar government has sought 4,000 additional paramilitary personnel from the Centre to deal with the growing Maoist menace in the state. Official sources have revealed that the Home Ministry is currently examining the request for 40 companies, with 100 personnel [...]
Bihar demands Rs 4000cr from state
Ranchi, Sept. 2 (PTI): Jharkhand might have to pay nearly Rs 4,000 crore to Bihar for the settlement of employees’ pension and state liabilities to government-run corporations. At a meeting convened by Union home secretary G.K. Pillai in Delhi yesterday, Bihar demanded about Rs 4,000 crore from Jharkhand, mainly to settle the pension liabilities of [...]
Bihar HRD Secretary transferred
Patna, Sep 03(iGovernment Bureau): In a minor administrative reshuffle, the Bihar government transferred three IAS officers, including Human Resource Development (HRD) Secretary K K Pathak. According to an official notification issued by the General Administration Department, Pathak has been made Managing Director of Beltron. Pathak, a 1990-batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, was recently in [...]
BJP National Executive meeting postponed: Naqvi
Sep 03 (PTI): BJP Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today announced that the party’s national executive meeting slated for September 18 and 19 in New Delhi has been postponed. The next date and venue of the meeting will be announced shortly, he told reporters here. The BJP national executive was scheduled to meet to chalk [...]
Wife of killed Bihar cop inconsolable
Sep 02, (IANS): Rajni Devi, the wife of sub-inspector Abhay Kumar Yadav who was killed by Maoists Thursday, fainted several times and was inconsolable after being informed about her husband’s death. More or less similar was the condition of Yadav’s old mother, his mother-in-law and sister-in-law. His three minor children were in a state of [...]
Fifteen mobile phones recovered from Bihar jail
Sep 02(IANS): Fifteen mobile phones were seized from inmates of a Bihar jail during a raid early Thursday, police said. Over a dozen mobile chargers, SIM cards and other objectionable items, including cash and gold jewellery, were also recovered from the prisoners of the Beur Central Jail here, police said. ‘Most of these items were [...]
Woman killed, 22 injured in bus mishap in Bihar
Nawada, Sep 02(PTI): A woman was killed and 22 others injured, five them critically, when a bus overturned and fell into a road side gorge on national highway near Rajauli in Bihar’s Nawada district today, police said. The accident occurred when the driver of the bus on its way to Randhi in Jharkhand from Darbhanga [...]
Left parties to contest 200 seats in Bihar
Patna, Sep 02(PTI): Left parties CPI, CPI(M) and CPI-ML (Liberation) today formally announced their decision to contest 200 of the 243 Assembly seats in alliance in Bihar where elections are due later this year. “The three Left parties have firmed up an alliance and decided to contest 200 of the 243 Assembly seats in Bihar,” [...]
Naxals give 3rd deadline to free cops in Bihar
Patna, Sep 02(One India): A ray of hope has come to the Bihar government and more specially to families of the abducted cops who were given twice deadline for the release by the Maoists. Sources told to CNN-IBN that local discussions have initiated with the Maoists and the 3rd deadline for the safe release of [...]
Two killed, eight injured in clash in Bihar
Chapra, Sep 02(PTI): Two persons were killed and eight others injured in a clash between two rival groups of the same community at Sarai Rajbara village in Saran district today, police said. The rival groups clashed with sharp edged weapons after a dispute over offering prayer at a place in the village, police said. Two [...]
10 sentenced to RI in Bhagalpur riot case
Bhagalpur, Sep 02(PTI): A Bihar court has sentenced 10 persons to rigorous imprisonment for seven years for attacking a police party during Bhagalpur riots in 1989. The 2nd Additional District and Sessions judge Anil Kumar also slapped a fine of Rs 2,000 on each of them. The judge had on Tuesday acquitted 10 others in [...]
Imtiaz Ali to act in Sushil Rajpal’s Old Monk
Sep 02(IANS): Director Imtiaz Ali couldn’t act in Sushil Rajpal’s Antardwand but is all set to work in his next film Old Monk. Old Monk moves between Mumbai and Bihar and will show the smart and suave Imtiaz in a new light. Rajpal had first approached Imtiaz for the lead role for related stories. Antardwand, [...]
Francis Induwar’s widow appeals to Maoists
Sep 02(IANS): The widow of Francis Induwar, the special branch inspector who was abducted and beheaded by Maoists last year, has appealed to the Leftwing rebels to free the four policemen taken hostage by them in Bihar. Two of the four abducted policemen belong to Jharkhand – Ehsan Khan, a resident of Mandar block of [...]
BJP wants 20 seats from JD-U’s Bihar share
Sep 02(Deccan Chronicle): Preparatory seat-sharing talks between Bihar’s ruling allies, the JD(U) and the BJP, have faced a difficult roadblock thrown up by the delimitation exercise that has changed the socio-political configuration of many Assembly constituencies, making them unsuitable for the old caste-based formulas for victory. The BJP has demanded for itself 20 constituencies where [...]
Naxals kill one of the four abducted cops in Bihar
Patna, Sep 02(NDTV Correspondent): Naxals have reportedly killed sub-inspector Abhay Yadav, one of the four policemen, who were taken hostage during an encounter in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district on Sunday.The deadline for the other three abducted cops has been extended till 10 am on Friday. Following the killing of Abhay Yadav, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar [...]
Security strengthened around Nitish Kumar’s residence
Patna, Sep 02(PTI): Security was further strengthened around the official residence of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday. “Security measures have been further tightened around the official bungalow of the chief minister,” a senior official told PTI while declining to give further details. The decision came following reports that Maoists had eliminated one of [...]
Bihar transfers police officers
Sep 01(IANS): Bihar Wednesday transferred Lakhisarai Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Singh and Deputy Superintendent of Police Ramadhar Singh for irregularity and negligence during a gunfight with Maoists in which seven policemen were killed and four were taken hostage by rebels. ‘Singh was transferred in view of the growing anger against him among policemen in [...]
Bihar polls: Setback for CPI(M), CPI
Sep 02(Business Standards): As the crisis of the CPI(M) and CPI deepens in West Bengal, they are fast losing their grip over poll-bound Bihar. Three top leaders of the two biggest constituents of the Left bloc today joined Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Subodh Roy – a CPI(M) central committee member and former Lok Sabha MP [...]
US power major to invest in Bihar
Patna, Sep 01(PTI): Bringing good news to power crisis-plagued Bihar after majority of thermal power units fell on the Jharkhand side after the bifurcation in November 2000, US energy major AES Corporation has evinced interest in setting up a thermal power plant in the State. The AES Corporation has submitted a proposal to State Industrial [...]
