All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) district President Arif Jamal was allegedly shot dead by unidentified people in Bihar's Siwan on Saturday night, police said.
In what could be a major political realignment in Bihar ahead of next year's Lok Sabha elections, Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday claimed that the ruling Janata Dal (United) of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will soon merge with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Friday refuted all the claims regarding the rift between Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal-United (JDU) supremo Nitish Kumar and RJD Leader Lalu Prasad Yadav.
JDU MLA Gopal Mandal on Friday said that the common public has no idea about the Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and hardly anyone knows about him adding that it is Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who should become the Prime Minister face for the INDIA bloc.
MLAs, who took oath as ministers include Brijmohan Agrawal, Ram Vichar Netam, Dayaldas Baghel, Kedar Kashyap, Lakhanlal Dewangan, Shyam Bihari Jaiswal, OP Choudhary, Tankram Verma and Laxmi Rajwade.
"I have been going since always; it's a routine. I went earlier as well. From 2017 to 2023, I have been going regularly whenever ED, Income Tax or CBI called me. What would these agencies do? They are also pressurised," Yadav told reporters.
Patna's famous Mahavir Mandir will be arranging Paag (headgear) and makhana (foxnut, a type of dry fruit) for the Ram temple from Shri Ram's -in-law's place, Mithila in Bihar.
A woman constable sustained bullet injuries while she was shooting a video with another police sub-inspector in Patna on Wednesday evening, said police.
"Let us wait for the report, and we'll ensure that from the next time, the standard operating procedure is followed. Secondly, we'll ensure that the morale of the Excise and police personnel stays up. We will also ensure the arrest and speedy trial of the culprits so that there is no recurre