India

NEW DELHI/PATNA—Ruling NDA’s demand for holding Bihar assembly elections on time is turning interesting with top leaders testing positive for Covid-19. In a major setback for the ruling coalition, Indian home minister Amit Shah has…
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PATNA—Bihar’s director general of police Gupteshwar Pandey on Saturday said the state police was capable of investigating actor Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case although his family was free to seek for a CBI probe. “Sushant’s father can…
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PATNA—Coronavirus has killed 13 doctors in the past 18 days in Bihar, indicating how the deadly virus has been striking the people on the frontline of the battle against this pandemic. According to a report compiled by the Indian Medical…
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Parliamentarian and former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh died after prolonged illness on Saturday. He was 64. Singh who had friends across the political parties had been undergoing treatment at a hospital in Singapore for…
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PATNA—Corona cases crossed the 50,000 mark in Bihar on Friday, well four months after the first case was reported in the March end. In July month itself, a huge number of 40,000 cases were reported, thus registering a four-time increase…
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PATNA—Criminals in have gone on targeting banks in Bihar as the authorities remain busy battling spread of Coronavirus. As many as eight bank robberies have been reported in the past four months since the lockdown was first enforced in…
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PATNA/NEW DELHI—In another significant development, Bihar government has hired India’s former attorney general Mukul Rohatgi to oppose actress Rhea Chakraborty’s interim prayer in the Supreme Court regarding transfer of the case from Patna…
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PATNA—The state government in Bihar has extended the continuing lockdown for another one fortnight as the Coronavirus cases refuse to come down despite all efforts by the government. As per the notification issued by the state…
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PATNA—Former IAS officer Afzal Amanullah who held various posts in the Bihar government has hit out at the government for not providing “correct” information to the people with regard to Corona pandemic and doing “nothing” on this front in…
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PATNA/DELHI—Actress Rhea Chakraborty has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking transfer of the case from Patna to Mumbai wherein she was accused of abetting suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The actress moved the apex court…
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