Patna News

59 AM Sunset : 4:47 PM Today Mainly clear sky. New Delhi, Nov. 20: The Union home ministry has appealed to civil society organisations, who security experts advise are a major party to be “won over” in the battle against...

Over 70 patients are said to have died as the strike by Bihar’s junior doctors, who are demanding an increase in their stipend, entered its sixth day on Sunday. Naquie Imam, spokesperson of the Bihar Junior Doctors’ Association. “This matter...

Struggle for leadership is on," Singh told a news conference here. Asserting that the Congress has taken all sections of people with it, he accused the BJP of cheating the people in the name of religion and communal politics. Under...

A senior police official in the Khagaria district, 200km north of the regional capital Patna, told AFP on Friday that "more than 50 armed Maoists attacked the village and started killing people". Ajay Pandey, a deputy superintendent of polilce, said...

Police in eastern Jharkhand state, where the two-day strike is most pronounced, say suspected rebels also killed two people in the Pakor area. Two managers of a coal mine were gunned down during their morning walk but no-one has claimed...

About 75 people, most of whom were returning from a village fair, were on board the boat when it capsized on the Bagmati river in Bihar state on Tuesday. "We have recovered 11 bodies so far and search is on...

More than 100 ultras attacked the Banshipur railway station on the Kiul-Jhajha line and torched a rail office in Lakhisarai district, besides blowing up a school in neighbouring Jharkhand. However, normal life was largely unaffected in the urban areas in...

Scores of people drowned and more were still missing after three boats capsized in separate accidents in India this week, authorities said. Khagaria District Police Superintendent Indranand Mishra said 32 bodies had been pulled from the Bagmati River but more...