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Girl students take to Patna streets to protest friend’s gang-rape as police use water cannons
PATNA: Police used water cannons and resorted to caning to disperse a crowd of angry girl students protesting on the streets on a rainy daily in Patna in chilly winter seeking…
Uproar in LS over Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Rape in India’ comments
NEW DELHI: A comment by senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over continuing rape incidents in India triggered strong protests in the Lok Sabha on Friday with the ruling party…
JD-U vice-president urges 16 non-BJP CMs to save ‘soul of India’
PATNA: JD-U vice-president and poll strategist Prashant Kishor refuses to fall in line despite repeated warnings from the party leadership.
Instead of taking the party line over…
College girl gang-raped by boyfriend, three others in Patna
PATNA: Police are conducting raids to arrest accused persons after a young girl doing graduation from a prominent college in Patna was allegedly gang-raped by four youths.
One…
Girl on way to home from railway station gang-raped in Bihar
PATNA: Amid continuing protests in the country over the sexual abuse of female community, a young girl was allegedly gang-raped again in Bihar on Wednesday night. The shocking…
Panicky Nirbhaya’s rape convicts fast losing weight after getting hints of their hanging
NEW DELHI: Four prisoners on death row and counting their days in the high-security Tihar jail are said to be living under great stress.
Reports quoting jail officials and media…
Hindu refugees celebrate ‘Diwali’, violence grips Assam as Citizenship Bill passed from RS
NEW DELHI: Hundreds of Hindu refuges from Pakistan living in makeshift homes and tents for years celebrated Diwali on Wednesday, dancing on the streets, bursting crackers and…
Nanavati Commission gives clean chit to Modi in 2002 Gujarat riots case
NEW DELHI: The Nanavati Commission appointed to investigate the 2002 Gujarat riots has given clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the case.
Modi was the chief minister…
After Army Service Corps, now Gaya Officers Training Academy to be shut soon
PATNA: The Army has planned to shut down the Officers Training Academy (OTA) running in southern Bihar’s Gaya district, citing it has become “unviable”, media reports said today.…
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor slams party boss Nitish Kumar for supporting CAB
PATNA: Poll strategist and JD-U vice-president Prashant Kishor is hugely annoyed with party boss, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar for supporting the contentious Citizenship…