The worsening law and order situation in Bihar witnessed yet another low when a group of boys opened indiscriminate firing at students from another group in Sasaram, Rohtas district, merely on the pretext that a student did not share his answer sheet with the accused during the ongoing matriculation examination.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a key meeting of chief ministers of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)-ruled states in Delhi.
The Union Government has released 15th Finance Commission Grants during Financial Year 2024–25, for the Rural Local Bodies of Bihar, Haryana and Sikkim.
The appointment of Gyanesh Kumar as the new Chief Election Commissioner of India has intensified hostilities between the Central government and the Opposition. After Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav expressed his displeasure over the appointment.
Ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar, political parties are vying with each other to claim a piece of the legacy of Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur, who continues to be a prominent figure in Bihar’s OBC politics.
According to a BPSC official, 87 candidates had filled the OMR sheets wrongly, as a result, their candidatures were automatically cancelled.
"They contested the election once in Bihar in 2015 and everyone knows the result. The state president of BJP (Sanjay Jaiswal) became leader with the virtue of RJD. He was in RJD when he was first elected as a public representative,"
Ally JD-U, and the Opposition parties questioned the rationale behind seeking caste and religion certificates from candidates willing to join the military short service scheme, Agnipath.
A total of 80 students in Bihar's Bhojpur district who had appeared for B.Ed examination have been expelled for carrying mobile phone into the exam centre, an official said on Friday.
The development came as a setback to the main Opposition RJD headed by Lalu Prasad with the party's tally coming down to 79 from existing 80. The RJD which won 75 seats in the last assembly elections had reached to 80 after it won the Bochaha assembly by-polls held in April this year and then four of the five legislators belonging to All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) joined the party last month.
