East India

The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in connection with the Chaibasa treasury case.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal-led opposition Grand-Alliance will contest 144 of the 243 assembly seats that will go to the three-phase Bihar polls, beginning October 28. Congress will fight in 70 seats and 29 seats have been given to the three Left allies — CPIM four, CPI six, and CPIML 19.

A group of students who study at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and hail from Bihar have written an open letter to Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav and urged him to demand the release of arrested student leaders Sharjeel Imam and Meeran Haider. Sharjeel Imam, a resident of Kako village of Jehanabad in Bihar, and Meeran Haider, a resident of Barharia of Siwan in Bihar were arrested under draconian UAPA for taking part in protests against the new citizenship matrix.

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen(AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi forged an alliance with Devendra Prasad Yadav’s Samajwadi Janata Dal (SJD) on Saturday for fighting the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has claimed that more than five lakh people in Bihar have already registered themselves on a digital portal inviting resumes from the unemployed persons for jobs on the promise that once elected, the party will ensure employment for them.

The alumni of Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University have issued a statement in unequivocal support of Dr. Maroona Murmu, Associate Professor of History at Jadavpur University, who is being incessantly trolled, and having to face casteist abuse, for a comment she posted on a social media platform on the ongoing debate about holding examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meer Faisal Recently, a video of a protest rally posted by Pakistani-Canadian writer Tarek Fateh on Twitter read "This is not Karachi, Kashmir or Kerala. No, this chant of “Islam...

This is an excerpt from Cyclone Fani: Tracking Inclusion of Dalits, Adivasis, Minorities, and Other Marginalized Communities in Disaster Response, a study jointly undertaken by the National Dalit Watch (NCDHR) and Ambedkar Lohia Vichar Manch, Odisha.

West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress legislator Samaresh Das, who had tested positive for COVID-19, died at a hospital in West Bengal's East Midnapore district on Monday.

As the flood situation in Bihar worsens the death toll rose to 11 and nearly 40 lakh people have been affected by the deluge, the state disaster management department said.

Leader of opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav took a swipe at the Bihar government over discrepancies in the tally of coronavirus cases in the state

"My daughter was murdered after being raped by retired army-man Arjun Mishra", said Ashok Paswan, father of 14-year-old minor Dalit girl whose dead body found in an orchard at Pator village of Darbhanga in Bihar on Wednesday.