Bhagalpur, India News

Former state minister and firebrand MLA from Bhagalpur, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, has threatened to stall train movement from Bhagalpur if the Centre continues to ignore pending projects like a new railway division in the district.

ADDRESSING an 'anti-communalism' meeting in Delhi on October 30, attended by most of the prominent anti-BJP and anti-Congress parties, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said: "I do not know what is being done at other places .

Art lovers are flocking to Saras Mela to take their pick from an array of eye-catching handicraft from across the country.

The minister of state for railways, Adhir Ranjan Choudhury, at the function in Bhagalpur on Tuesday.

Patna, Nov. 25: Nitish Kumar today used the improving power situation in the state "woefully starved of electricity for decades" to counter the 91-MLA-strong BJP which has been sniggering that the chief minister had lost his grip, and power, on the state post the June split of the alliance.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who completed eight years in office on Monday, announced the doubling of pension to Bhagalpur riots victims.

That's how the success report of the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority's exit policy, launched six months ago to help increase its land bank, reads.

Come 2015, kanwariyas will not have to walk 185km from Sultanganj to offer holy water to Shiv at Baidyanath Dham during Shravani mela.

Patna, Nov. 15: The bitter exchange of words between the JD and the BJP could see a temporary truce tomorrow with the parties expected to share a common platform for the sake of Bihar's economic prosperity.

For, the South Eastern Railway has decided to withdraw Tata-Bhagalpur Weekly Express from November 17. The train was introduced on October 6. Tatanagar station manager Awtar Singh said they had received a circular in this regard from Garden Reach, the Calcutta-based headquarters of SER, on Friday.

Junior doctors of the state have decided to call off their proposed strike from November 15. The decision came after fruitful negotiations with Deepak Kumar, principal secretary, health, on Wednesday.

Ranchi police on Tuesday night busted a sex racket following the arrest of six persons, including four girls, from Dipatoli at Panchamnagar in Pundag, around 10km from the heart of capital.

Over a month after the Union ministry of food processing industries gave the state government two months for construction work on the Rs 150 crore Keventer Mega Food Park Project to kick off, industry sources said the state government was yet to hand over 100 acres of land freshly earmarked for it at Bausa subdivision in Banka district.