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Two unidentified men attacked mahant Ramjivan Das and set him on fire in the wee hours of Friday at Mahu Mahadev temple under Gadariyawas Gram Panchayat in Dhariyawad block of Pratapgarh district. A day ago, these men attempted to kill the mahant and stabbed him with a knife.

The foundation stone for a cold storage in Triveniganj in Supaul was laid on June 5, 1997 by the then agriculture minister ramjivan singh when Lalu Prasad was the chief minister, but not a single brick was laid thereafter, forcing the farmers of the area to transport their produce to other places for storage.

PATNA: Ramjivan Verma was shot at and injured at Chiraura village under the Bhagwanganj police station of the Patna district on Monday evening. Later, he succumbed to his injuries at the Patna Medical College Hospital.

PATNA: The Patna High Court has ordered a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in appointments and defalcation of crores of rupees in the Bihar agriculture department. A division bench comprising chief justice R S Dhawan and justice Shashank Kumar Singh on Friday ordered the CBI to take up the case after it felt that the state vigilance department, earlier looking into the case, was taking the matter too lightly.

PATNA: The Janata Dal (United), at an extended meeting of its state office-bearers, MLAs, MLCs, former MLAs and MLCs and district functionaries held in the MLA Club hall here on Saturday, decided to strengthen the party organisation down to the grassroots level and hold a camp at Katihar in November in this connection.

BALIA: Crime has apparently become a major rallying point in this constituency. Laloo Yadav's decision to foist criminal-turned-politician Suraj Bhan Singh on an LJP ticket has led to a rethink in at least some sections of the RJD chief's famous MY (Muslim-Yadav) co-mbination, wh-ich constitutes his social-political vote base.

PATNA: Director general of police D P Ojha on Thursday shuffled 87 inspector-rank police officials on administrative ground in light of the recent directives of the Patna High Court.

PATNA: Glowing tributes were paid to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his birth anniversary and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary at a number of functions organised here on Wednesday.

PATNA: Barring sporadic incidents of violence and disruption in the movement of trains at various places, the NDA-sponsored Bihar bandh passed off peacefully on Tuesday. The call was given to protest against the ``all-round failure'' of the Rabri Devi government.

Begusarai was once the most politically-aware. That’s why, politicians with criminal links like Pappu Yadav, Mohammad Shahabuddin etc could not gain a foothold here

Denied a ticket by his party JD(U) for the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, veteran socialist leader George Fernandes is likely to contest the Muzaffarpur seat as an Independent and file his papers next Wednesday.

The kidnapping of an eight-year-old student rang a reminder of the kidnapping spree witnessed before assembly polls.

PATNA: The Bihar bandh called by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Tuesday is likely to hit normal life in Bihar, particularly the rail and road traffic.

Three players shared the lead after the sixth round in the Vidarbha Open Rapid and Blitz Fide Rating Chess tournament, organized by the Vidarbha Chess Association, at the Dhanwate National College Hall here on Saturday.

Three players shared the lead after the sixth round in the Vidarbha Open Rapid and Blitz Fide Rating Chess tournament, organized by the Vidarbha Chess Association, at the Dhanwate National College Hall here on Saturday.

KHAGARIA: Jawahar Kesri, a distant cousin of former Congress president Sitaram Kesri and resident of Maheshkhunt village on NH-31 in this constituency, says ever since the highway was built in the 1950s, the lives of people changed for the better. Prior to this, the area was crime-prone and poverty-ridden.

When TOI visited the ghat, the condition of stepped embankments along with stairs and stone platforms was pathetic, showing signs of wear and tear at many places.

Convicted RJD MP Mohd Shahabuddin's wife Heena Shahab on Monday filed nomination papers as RJD candidate from Siwan Lok Sabha constituency.