Patna

80 junior resident doctors are on duty at Covid wards at AIIMS Patna and the number may go up as beds are likely to be increased from 120 to 150.

The bone of contention was Bihar Special Armed Police Bill, 2021, which the Nitish Kumar government has introduced in a bid to give its police more teeth, deemed necessary in view of the increasingly complex security needs of the state which has been witn...

The state's Health Department had won accolades for conducting the elections to the 243member assembly amid the coronavirus surge last year.

A video clip of Narendra Kumar Niraj alias Gopal Mandal, the third-term MLA from Gopalpur in Bhagalpur district, went viral on the social media.

CM Nitish Kumar had said that he will comment on the matter after meeting the MLAs who have joined the ruling BJP in Arunachal Pradesh.

Kumar, who took oath for yet another term in office the previous evening, drove down to the party's headquarters on Birchand Patel Marg here after completing businesses of the day which included the distribution of portfolios among his cabinet colleagues.

He also declared he will not support the new government in Bihar if the NDA stuck to its promise of retaining Nitish Kumar as the chief minister despite the JD(U)'s diminished numbers in the assembly.

Yadav, elder son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, defeated his nearest JD(U) rival Raj Kumar Rai.

Among the districts, Muzaffarpur (59.98%) recorded the maximum voting percentage, followed by West Champaran (59.69%), while state capital Patna recorded the minimum turnout at 48.24%.

Among other districts, Banka has recorded 33.14 per cent turnout, Gaya 32.90 per cent and Rohtas 30.26 per cent.

Paswan said his party had fought the Lok Sabha polls last year in alliance with the JD(U) because of the 'compulsions' brought by the return to the NDA of Kumar.

Singh, a BJP MLA from Pranpur constituency in Katihar district, had tested positive for COVID-19 on June 28 and subsequently recovered.

A sea of people could be seen, besides dignitaries led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, at the cremation site on the banks of the Ganges in the city that has been a witness to the Lok Janshakti Party founders lo...

Anand Mohan is serving life sentence in connection with murder of Gopalganj District Magistrate G Krishnaiah in 1994.

They have been accused of violating COVID-19 protocol by amassing a large number of people at the airport on Saturday when some party leaders were arriving in the Bihar capital to strategise for the upcoming assembly elections.

Addressing a press conference with Yadav here, Owaisi said they have laid foundation of UDSA (United Democratic Secular Alliance) which would assess as on how many seats they should field candidates in the poll fray in the state.