The whole country is privy to how Prime Minister Narendra Modi enjoys his mangoes but not much is known about his opinion on litchis, or the many problems that ail the farmers cultivating the fruit. ...

At least 33 people across 16 districts lost their lives in a thunderstorm that lashed Bihar on Thursday evening. Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur districts bore the maximum brunt with seven and six deaths, r...

Three brothers were arrested from Muzaffarpur in Bihar late on Wednesday night for allegedly opening fire on a father and son in Tiljala in southeast Kolkata on Saturday morning. The early morning sh...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said the Bihar government has informed it that compensation amounts ranging from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 9 lakh have been handed over to 49 survivors of sexual ...

Pankaj Kumar of Mathurapur village, an employee at the ill-fated factory, suffered head injuries while having breakfast in the canteen there. “Normally 300 people work in two shifts in the fact...

There have been umpteen cases of liquor bottles and packs being hidden in ponds, streams, rivers, canals, agriculture fields, houses, schools and deserted buildings in dry Bihar. They have been transp...

At least four persons are said to have lost their lives after consuming spurious liquor in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar on Tuesday, taking the hooch deaths to 45 in the state in the past one week. T...

At least nine persons perished in the floods in Bihar on Thursday, taking the deluge toll to 53 since Wednesday as the situation worsened due to heavy rain in the state and neighbouring Nepal. At pre...

Brajesh Thakur, the arrested proprietor of the NGO that ran the Muzaffarpur shelter home where 34 underage girls were raped, is likely to be hit with a fresh case for allegedly tampering with the docu...

The principle of accountability is, supposedly, the beating heart of a healthy democracy. It is meant to uphold the liability of the elected representatives to the people who elect them to positions o...