Tejaswi demand
Patna: Deputy chief minister Tejaswi on Friday wrote a letter to Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje regarding the death of a Bihari student in Kota, demanding strict action against people responsible for the incident.
Rajak jibe
Patna: JDU leader Shyam Rajak on Friday demanded strict action be taken against RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh who said chief minister Nitish Kumar was weakening secular forces.
Shot dead
Bhagalpur: A 50-year-old grocer was shot dead in front of his shop in the Surkhikal area under the jurisdiction of Tilka Manjhi police station in Bhagalpur on Friday.
Jail term
Patna: Special vigilance judge Raghvendra Kumar Singh sentenced former junior engineer of public works department (Patna) Sidheshwar Prasad to two years of rigorous imprisonment in a disproportionate assets case.
Bank meet
Patna: Punjab National Bank general manager Sanjeev Sharan asked branch managers to improve the functioning of bank branches in the state.
Dad plea for jailed driver
Gopalganj, May 13: Balha village resident Raju Kumar's father Lutan Sah has urged district magistrate Rahul Kumar to look into his son's case who is languishing in a Saudi jail for the past 10 years.
Raju, a contract driver, was held after his employer forced him to drive a commercial vehicle.
Run over
Gopalganj: Villagers blocked the Siwan-Gopalganj road for over five hours after a man was run over by a sand-laden truck at Harkhauli village on Friday.
Doc decision
Motihari: At a meeting of the Motihari chapter of the Indian Medical Association, doctors resolved not to register their clinics. The state government had set a May 15 deadline for registration under the Bihar Clinical Establishment Act.
Seizure
Munger: Police seized 14 pistols, 38 magazines, five barrels and 60 springs while conducting raids in the Munger town area in the past three days.
Scribe killed
Gaya: Criminals gunned down Barachatti resident Indradev Yadav alias Akhilesh Pratap Yadav, a journalist with a local television channel, at Chatra in Jharkhand late on Thursday night.
Accident
Siwan: At least one person died and six others were injured when an autorickshaw collided with a motorbike at Gopalpur village on Siwan Mairwa road on Friday.
Medical strike
Patna: Doctors associated with the Jamui chapter of IMA went on strike yesterday to protest the arrest of gynaecologist Nibha Sinha on May 11. The FIR lodged against her states that she had left a pregnant woman unattended for sometime that led to the death of her baby.
Cop claim
Munger: Police on Friday claimed that the gang, which had forcibly taken away a truck from the work site of a private firm, has been identified and raids were on to nab the criminals.
Birthday
Patna: Members of The Art of Living on Friday organised a programme to mark the birthday of Sri Sri Ravishankar.
Honour
Patna: Pushpalata Kumari, an auxiliary nurse midwife from Referral Hospital, Raniganj (Araria district), has received the National Florence Nightingale award. She received the award from President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday. Bihar has won the award for the fourth time in a row.
