Alok Pandey With Inputs From Pti

Four elderly patients died in Kanpur's Lala Lajpat Rai hospital. Attendants of the patients allege that the AC plant in medicine ICU was not functioning since several days.

Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad today offered the Samajwadi Party five seats to contest in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections due to start next month, in an effort to placate an upset ally and mount a sturdier front against the BJP.

A Janata Dal (United) legislator from Piro in Bihar's Bhojpur district, Sunil Pandey, has been arrested for allegedly facilitating the escape of a gangster from a court in January.

The ruling BJP's call for a nationwide beef ban has alarmed its own members and workers in Meghalaya, where party president Amit Shah is likely to be greeted today by a protest "beef party."

Student activists of the BJP today stopped trains, blocked the highways, burned tyres and forced shops to shut in Bihar as they protested against police action during a demonstration last week.

A senior officer of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed in a gunbattle with Naxals in Bihar's Jamui this morning. Hira Kumar Jha, the second-in-command of CRPF base in Jamui, died in the anti-Naxal operation that took place in the Lakharia forest region.

He could not have escaped the taunts from his former BJP colleagues.

A girl has died and nine others are severely injured after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Dibrugarh in upper Assam, according to police.

Four elderly patients died in Kanpur's Lala Lajpat Rai hospital. Attendants of the patients allege that the AC plant in medicine ICU was not functioning since several days.

Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad today offered the Samajwadi Party five seats to contest in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections due to start next month, in an effort to placate an upset ally and mount a sturdier front against the BJP.

A Janata Dal (United) legislator from Piro in Bihar's Bhojpur district, Sunil Pandey, has been arrested for allegedly facilitating the escape of a gangster from a court in January.

The ruling BJP's call for a nationwide beef ban has alarmed its own members and workers in Meghalaya, where party president Amit Shah is likely to be greeted today by a protest "beef party."

Student activists of the BJP today stopped trains, blocked the highways, burned tyres and forced shops to shut in Bihar as they protested against police action during a demonstration last week.

A senior officer of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed in a gunbattle with Naxals in Bihar's Jamui this morning. Hira Kumar Jha, the second-in-command of CRPF base in Jamui, died in the anti-Naxal operation that took place in the Lakharia forest region.

He could not have escaped the taunts from his former BJP colleagues.

A girl has died and nine others are severely injured after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Dibrugarh in upper Assam, according to police.