Patna: Three minor boys drowned in Dyke Lagoon-3, a fly ash pond near the NTPC premises, in Kanti police station area of Muzaffarpur district on Friday.According to police, the boys from Kanti Kothia village had gone to bathe near the NTPC premises when they accidentally ventured into deep water and drowned. When they failed to…
What began as a friendship between two civil services aspirants and culminated in a love marriage has, according to police. PATNA: What began as a friendship between two civil services aspirants and culminated in a love marriage has, according to police, ended in a case of alleged murder, dowry harassment and an alleged extramarital relationship.Police…
Patna: The state health department has taken note of a large number of govt doctors remaining absent from duty across several districts, with reports submitted by civil surgeons pointing to gaps in attendance and service delivery at health facilities.A total of 120 doctors from seven districts were found absent from duty during a two-day review…
Patna: The state cabinet on Wednesday approved the govt’s proposal to establish a Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) linking Patna with Gaya, Begusarai, Hajipur, Sonepur, Muzaffarpur and Ara to facilitate faster movement of passengers through four corridors on the pattern of the National Capital Region (NCR), Delhi. It also approved a proposal to set up…
Noida: Eight members of a gang of thieves, including two minors, that allegedly targeted parked two-wheelers, paying guest (PG) accommodations and locked houses were arrested on Tuesday. The alleged kingpin, Sagar alias Punjabi, is on the run and teams have been formed to trace him.According to additional DCP Manisha Singh, the gang would first conduct…
Patna: As investigators peel back the layers of the NEET-UG 2026 re-exam fraud, a solver syndicate allegedly run by MBBS students has emerged at the centre of the case. While authorities prevented any paper leak, the gang is accused of bypassing the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) security measures by deploying dummy candidates at examination centres.According…
Patna: CM Samrat Choudhary on Monday transferred more than Rs 200 crore directly into the bank accounts of over 3.96 lakh farmers under the Agriculture Input Subsidy Scheme, providing relief to cultivators whose rabi 2025-26 crops were damaged by storms, hailstorms and unseasonal rainfall during the third and fourth weeks of March 2026.The assistance was…
PATNA: A major impersonation racket allegedly operating during the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination was busted in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district on Sunday with police arresting 30 people, including MBBS students, biometric staff and other accomplices accused of facilitating dummy candidates at examination centres.According to a statement issued by the Bihar Police Headquarters (PHQ), elaborate arrangements had been…
A minor was repeatedly raped and impregnated and then was forced to get an abortion by a young man she had befriended through Instagram in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, police said. However, in an unusual request in her police complaint, she demanded to be married to the abuser. According to police, the girl said she was working…
Lucknow: A fresh western disturbance (WD) is likely to influence weather conditions across north India from Jun 18 and help the southwest monsoon resume its advance towards UP.On Wednesday night, the northern limit of monsoon was passing through Harnai and Solapur in Maharashtra, Hyderabad and Bhadrachalam in Telangana, Koraput and Phulbani in Odisha, Ranchi in…
