Maoists may release cops on Sunday: Reports

Patna : The Maoists may release the three kidnapped Bihar policemen on Sunday, media reports said.

The latest report of the possible release of the cops came hours after Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar’s talk offers with the Maoists, reports added.

Bihar in reverse gear of development: Rahul Gandhi

Saharsa, Bihar, Sept 4 : Alleging massive corruption in the Bihar government, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that Bihar was still in the ‘reverse gear’ with regards to development.

Addressing a massive rally here as part of t

Hostages alive and safe, claim Maoists

Maoists on Saturday claimed their hostages- three policemen- are alive and safe, even as security forces intensified combing operations around Lakhisarai jungles in Bihar to trace out their colleagues, local media said.
The Maoists’ claim comes a day after

Nitish Kumar convenes meeting to discuss Maoist mayhem

Facing the heat from the red rebels, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday summoned an all party meeting here on Saturday to elicit views on hostage crisis in Lakhisarai district where four policemen abducted by the Maoists of whom one was killed.

“Th

Negotiating on hostages unethical: Nitish

Even as the Maoists killed one of the four hostage policemen on Thursday, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar reiterated the government’s willingness for talks, though stressing that negotiating on hostages in ‘unethical’.

“We are ready for talks. Let them (

Maoists kill one of four abducted policemen, Abhay Kumar Yadav

Maoists Thursday killed Abhay Kumar Yadav, one of the four Bihar policemen they abducted four days ago, following a decision by a ‘jan adalat’ or kangaroo court.

The Leftwing rebels killed Yadav six hours after their second deadline – at 10 a.m. -expired.

Maoists extend deadline for abducted Bihar cops

As the search for the four abducted Bihar policemen intensified, the Maoist hostage-takers have come up with a new deadline of 10 am Thursday to meet their demands.

According to reports, the Maoist rebels are demanding the release of eight of their accompli

Maoists-set deadline for release of cops to expire

Munger, Bihar, Sept 1 : The fate of four policemen abducted by Maoists from Lakhisarai district of Bihar hangs in balance as a deadline set by the kidnappers expires later on Wednesday.

The Maoists on Tuesday had asked the government to release eight jail

Maoists kill 10 security men in Bihar

Ten security personnel were killed and 10 injured by Maoists in a six-hour-long gunfight in a forested area of Bihar’s Lakhisarai district, police said Monday.

Lakhisarai Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Singh has confirmed that 10 security personnel

Bihar official untraced day after abduction by armed Maoist

A Bihar government official remained untraced Monday, a day after he had been abducted by armed Maoist guerrillas, police said.

Manoj Kumar Singh, the block development officer of Tariyani in Sheohar district, about 250 km from here, was kidnapped from Tari

Bihar government staff strike hits flood, drought relief

The functioning of government offices in Bihar has come to a standstill with the indefinite strike of more than 2.5 lakh state non-gazetted employees continuing fifth day Friday.

The employees of the Bihar government Monday went on an indefinite strike to p

4,000 trees in Patna zoo face the axe for airport safety

Nature lovers are concerned over the Bihar government’s plans to cut or prune nearly 4,000 trees in the Patna zoo for airport safety, as they say it is the only green cover for the city’s two million people.

The zoo is formally known as the Sanjay Gandh

Policemen suspended for cremating Muslim

Two police officers have been suspended here after a Muslim banker found dead near a park was mistakenly identified as a beggar and cremated according to Hindu rites.

The body of Mohd Ishrafil, a 46-year-old State Bank of India official, was recovered near

Behind bars but JD-U legislator, Munna Shukla, still enjoys minister status

A legislator from Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U), sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a minister, enjoys the status of minister as head of the assembly housing committee, officials said.

Vijay Kumar Shukla alias Munna Shukla, currently in ja

Woman, two kids murdered in Bihar

A 28-year-old woman and her two minor children were murdered in this Bihar capital, police said Tuesday.

The throats of Arti Gupta and her two children – four-year-old Sanchit and two-year-old Ashi – were slit at their home in the busy locality of Nala Road

Former Bihar MP Pappu Yadav arrested, taken to Patna

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday arrested former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav from a private hospital in Haryana’s Gurgaon town adjoining the national capital. He was later taken to Patna and sent to jail.

Yadav wa

Howrah-Amritsar Express is looted in Bihar

In yet another train robbery in Bihar, armed men looted cash and valuables at gunpoint and assaulted dozens of passengers of the Howrah-Amritsar Express in Jamui district, police said Monday.

This is the second train robbery reported in the last four days i

BJP’s upper-caste leaders oppose Bihar deputy CM

Bihar’s ruling ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faces an in-house revolt with several of its upper-caste leaders accusing Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, an icon of backwards, of trying to turn the party into his pocket-borough.

Gopal N

Mentally challenged woman lynched in Bihar

A mentally challenged woman, suspected of being a child lifter, was beaten to death with bamboo sticks, bricks and stones by a mob in Bihar’s Munger district Wednesday morning, police said. Twenty people have been arrested.

“A mob beat to death a

Three die after drinking spurious liquor in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district

Three men died after drinking spurious liquor in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, police said Tuesday.

They died in Biohpur bazaar late Monday, a police officer said.

A case has been lodged and no one has been arrested so far, the police officer sa