Bihar

New Delhi, Jun 19 (PTI) Amid widespread protests against the Agnipath military recruitment scheme in Bihar, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday said there were many doubts about the scheme in the minds of the youth and demanded that it be withdrawn.

Addressing a press conference here, he asked whether this was a MGNREGA-like initiative for the educated youth or there was a "hidden agenda" of the RSS in it.

Patna, May 20 (PTI) Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar on Friday accused CBI officials of misbehaviour and using unparliamentary language while interrogating Rabri Devi, a former chief minister and the wife of the party's national president Lalu Prasad.

A CBI team had early in the morning raided the 10, Circular Road residence of Rabri Devi who has been named as accused in a fresh corruption case lodged by the investigating agency.

Patna, May 19 (PTI) A court in Bhojpur district of Bihar is in news for having disposed of a civil dispute, over a piece of land measuring three acres, 108 years after it was filed.

It has been a while since Additional District and Sessions Judge Shweta Singh decided the case in favour of Atul Singh, ending the legal battle which began with his great-grandfather Darbari Singh in 1914.

Patna, May 4 (PTI) RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday upped the ante on the issue of headcount of Other Backward Classes by declaring that he will not allow any census in Bihar unless the Centre acceded to the demand for coming out with the numbers of OBCs, besides the SCs and the STs.

Patna, May 2 (PTI) Political strategist Prashant Kishor on Monday caused ripples in the choppy waters of Bihar politics with the cryptic announcement of a fresh shuruat (beginning) from his home state.

Kishor came out with a tweet in which he called a roller coaster ride his spectacularly successful decade of political consultancy which saw him working with clients as diverse as Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee and Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Patna, Apr 26 (PTI) The Bihar Police have claimed to have choked the supply chain of weapons to Maoists during a sustained anti-Naxal crackdown leading to a drastic reduction in their strength.

An illegal arms factory, a major source of weapons for the Naxals, was recently busted by the Special Task Force (STF) and Central forces in Nawada, Additional Director General (STF-operation), Bihar Police, Sushil Mansingh Khopde said.

Patna, Apr 18 (PTI) A woman who was facing marital problems allegedly consumed some poisonous substance outside the venue where Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar holds his weekly public interaction programme on Monday, a police officer said.

She was taken to a hospital and is now out of danger.

The incident took place in the evening and by the time, the Janata Ke Darbaar Mein Mukhyamantri programme was over, Patna Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manavjit Singh Dhillon said.

Sasaram, Apr 9 (PTI) A 60-feet-long steel bridge was dismantled and stolen by a group of men posing as government officers in Bihar's Rohtas district, police said on Saturday.

The bridge, weighing 500 tons, was built over the Arrah canal in Amiyawar village in Nasriganj police station area in 1972, they said.

A group of men, posing as officers of the Irrigation Department, dismantled the defunct bridge with the help of gas-cutters and earthmovers over three days, police said.

Patna, Feb 15 (PTI) Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief, Chirag Paswan was detained by Patna police along with his supporters during a protest march demanding dismissal of the Nitish Kumar government here on Tuesday.

The march had begun at the historic Gandhi Maidan and Paswan and his supporters were detained near the Income Tax roundabout as they were proceeding to Raj Niwas (governor's house).

Patna, Feb 14 (PTI) Downplaying the ongoing hijab (headscarf) controversy in Karnataka, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said it is not an issue in his state where religious sentiments are respected.

If someone puts something on the head in a classroom, there is no need to comment on it, Kumar told reporters at a programme.

This is not an issue in Bihar, we should not focus on such things.... It's useless," he said.

The matter has gone to court, said Kumar.