Patna

According to Bihar health department, which had till the previous day stated the number of deaths to be under 5,500, as many as 3,951 deaths have been added to the number of deaths after verification.

According to the health department, the COVID-19 death toll has risen to 4,143 with 104 fresh fatalities.

Over 5,900 cases were reported since the previous day, a significant drop since about a fortnight ago when the number of cases often exceeded 15,000.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar paid rich tributes to the departed bureaucrat. The CM got information about his death during a meeting of the state cabinet.

Yadav is accused of provoking religious sentiments while electioneering for the 2015 state assembly elections.

Replying to a debate on the motion of thanks on the Governors address to the joint session of the state legislature on Friday, the chief minister mentioned the pioneering efforts made by the state to fight coronavirus and other initiatives to improve heal...

The JD(U) de facto leader also rued the fact that he now had to remain content with news about the ailing RJD supremo gathered from newspapers since his telephonic enquiries about the latters health in the recent past had triggered a controversy.

The RJD national vice president, who preceded Kumar in power, was replying to queries from journalists about the recent bureaucratic reshuffle in which some officers believed to be close to the chief minister have been divested of the plum posts they had...

At the meeting with the swayamsevakas from Bihar and neighbouring Jharkhand, Bhagwat also discussed as how the sangh carried out its regular activities during the COVID outbreak, RSS Prant Prachar Pramukh of South Bihar, Rajesh Kumar Pandey said.

Modi filed his nomination papers at the Vidhan Sabha secretariat in presence of a host of leaders of the ruling NDA, most notable being Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

After the NDA returned to power in Bihar, it is certain that JD-U's Nitish Kumar will once again become the Chief Minister of Bihar for the fourth term, while many new young faces are also expected to get cabinet berth this time.

The meeting to nominate the office bearers began before noon and continued till late in the evening with party workers owing allegiance to different factions often indulging in fisticuffs and raised slogans against each other.

Not much has been known so far about his children's political aptitude, though it is common knowledge that unlike twin brother Kush, Luv did evince interest in acting but failed to make it big

A total of 71 assembly segments of the state's 243 constituencies voted in the first phase in which nearly 2.15 crore voters were to decide the electoral fate of over 1,000 candidates. Voter turnout was low in the beginning, but it progressed with the tim...

Chandrika Rai is contesting election from Parsa seat and was doing rally along with BJP senior leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy in Sonepur town.

The Congress said the BJP has a habit of dragging Pakistan and Kashmir into the scenario whenever it faces a tough challenge in Bihar polls.