Late last year, I was in Bodh Gaya in the northern Indian state of Bihar, the birthplace of Buddhism, on the first night of Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. Candles and colored lights radiated a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bihar state's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar [File: Adnan Abidi/Reuters] A video showing a top minister pulling down the hijab of a ...

Over several decades, the state has produced entrepreneurs who stepped out of its limited industrial ecosystem to build ...

Patna: Bihar chief minister Samrat Choudhary has directed senior officials from various departments to prepare a ...

The accident occurred near Gauchhari village under the Maheshkhunt police station area after the driver lost control of the truck and the vehicle fell on its side.

correctionA previous version of this article incorrectly said the caste survey underway in Bihar state has 250 categories; the survey has 215 categories. The year of India's independence was also ...

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It was Bismil Azimabadi of Patna who wrote “Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai,” in 1921 and it was Ram Prasad Bismil who immortalized the lines. The poem became a war cry in India’s freedom ...

Despite a decade of prohibition, Bihar's illicit liquor market is thriving with sophisticated home-delivery networks and ...