The sleuths of the Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) arrested the BDO of Rajapakar block in Vaishali district Rajiv Ranjan on Tuesday on charges of accepting Rs1 lakh as bribe from a local resident for providing him documents pertaining to PACS election.
After witnessing biting cold conditions over the past few days, Patna and most parts of the state are set to welcome the New Year amid rainy conditions as India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday issued forecast for rainfall in parts of state from January 1 to 4.
Leader of opposition in the state assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Tuesday asked chief minister Nitish Kumar not to allow National Population Register (NPR) in the state till Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) was repealed.
A police constable was crushed to death by a liquor-laden SUV on national highway-28 near Salona under the Barauli police station area in Gopalganj district early on Tuesday morning. The driver of the SUV, who hailed from Haryana, also died as the vehicle hit a speeding container while he was trying to flee from the spot.
In a daring, daylight heist, bang in the middle of the state capital, a masked man walked into a public sector bank branch on the bustling Station Road near Patna junction, pointed a gun wrapped in a towel at the cashier, and coolly walked away with Rs 9.12 lakh in cash on Tuesday afternoon.
A 75-year-old retired Army jawan was allegedly shot dead by his youngest son after he refused to pay his pension to him at Parsauni Baiz village under the Piprahi police station area in Sheohar district around 7.30pm om Sunday.
JD(U)'s national vice-president Prashant Kishor on Monday said only Bihar CM Nitish Kumar could explain the circumstances under which the party supported the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in both houses of Parliament as the party was the first to write a dissent note against the bill.
In a joint operation, district police and the SSB arrested a Maoist sub-zonal commander Vikas Rajak from his ancestral house at Rasulaganj under the Motipur police station area late on Saturday night.
