Bihar Bride

In a shocking incident, a bride was shot at by a Bihar Police personnel hours before her marriage in the city of Munger on Sunday, officials said.

Tejashwi Yadav, the political heir of Lalu Yadav, has a question of "chacha" Nitish Kumar - the man who once claimed to rely only on his face to seek votes. "Where did that face go?" questioned the 29-year-old, who had been the Chief Minister's deputy when his party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal, and the Congress were part of Bihar's ruling alli...

A bride in Bihar's Chhapra called off her wedding as the groom allegedly turned up drunk at the mandap or wedding dais. Rinki Kumari, in her twenties, told her family to ask the groom, Bablu Kumar, to leave as he came staggering down the path on Saturday.

A bride-to-be in Bihar declined to tie the knot when she learnt that her would-be husband had arrived in an inebriated condition, after which the groom, a police constable, was arrested.

Tej Pratap Yadav, a former Bihar minister and the older son of Lalu Yadav, posed on a bicycle with his new bride in a photo that went viral in May. His latest photo-op with a cycle -- a protest -- began well, but ended with a spectacular tumble on the road, captured by many mobile phone cameras.

In a bizarre incident, a bride in Bihar's Saran district refused to marry her groom after he seemed "scared" following a lightning strike that resulted in a violent clash between the members of the two families, police said on Friday.

Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Modi has a new assignment: Finding a bride for Tej Pratap Yadav, whose threats, the senior BJP leader had said, pushed him to change venue of his son's wedding. The episode had a happy ending on Sunday as Taj Pratap's father Lalu Yadav attended the wedding of Utkarsh Modi.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar wants to eliminate child marriage in his state and the priests solomnising a wedding may soon be tasked with determining whether the bride is an adult. Officials of the state's Social Welfare Ministry, which is drawing up a list of ideas, say the wedding can proceed only if the priest thinks the bride is an adult a...

Rabri Devi was a Twitter trend today after she said she is looking for wives for her two sons who are ministers in Bihar. Mall-going women are out the running, she said. Curious since the sons in question own a two-acre plot of land on the outskirts of Patna that was being developed as Bihar's largest mall till the centre last month stopped constru...

A woman in Bihar's Buxar district refused to marry a dark-complexioned groom, saying he was not 'smart' enough for her, a police official said today.

A bridegroom was shot dead on his wedding day just after he garlanded his bride to be in Bihar's Bhojpur's district, police said today.

In a bizarre promise to youths of Haryana ahead of the assembly polls this year, BJP leader OP Dhankar has said he will bring brides from Bihar for them if they are unable to find a match in the state infamous for its skewed sex ratio.

In a high-profile wedding, a Congress MLA in Bihar organised a helicopter to bring his bride home. Supporters of the MLA, Tausif Alam, also fired some shots in the air to celebrate the occasion.

Left at the altar - alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too sozzled.

A groom, who had been married hours earlier, and six others were killed in a tragic road accident in Bihar that also left the bride critically injured. Three children were amongst those killed, police said. The celebrations quickly turned to mourning as seven people of the marriage party, including the groom and his father, were killed in Aurangaba...

In a shocking incident, a bride was shot at by a Bihar Police personnel hours before her marriage in the city of Munger on Sunday, officials said.

Tejashwi Yadav, the political heir of Lalu Yadav, has a question of "chacha" Nitish Kumar - the man who once claimed to rely only on his face to seek votes. "Where did that face go?" questioned the 29-year-old, who had been the Chief Minister's deputy when his party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal, and the Congress were part of Bihar's ruling alli...

A bride in Bihar's Chhapra called off her wedding as the groom allegedly turned up drunk at the mandap or wedding dais. Rinki Kumari, in her twenties, told her family to ask the groom, Bablu Kumar, to leave as he came staggering down the path on Saturday.

A bride-to-be in Bihar declined to tie the knot when she learnt that her would-be husband had arrived in an inebriated condition, after which the groom, a police constable, was arrested.

Tej Pratap Yadav, a former Bihar minister and the older son of Lalu Yadav, posed on a bicycle with his new bride in a photo that went viral in May. His latest photo-op with a cycle -- a protest -- began well, but ended with a spectacular tumble on the road, captured by many mobile phone cameras.

In a bizarre incident, a bride in Bihar's Saran district refused to marry her groom after he seemed "scared" following a lightning strike that resulted in a violent clash between the members of the two families, police said on Friday.

Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Modi has a new assignment: Finding a bride for Tej Pratap Yadav, whose threats, the senior BJP leader had said, pushed him to change venue of his son's wedding. The episode had a happy ending on Sunday as Taj Pratap's father Lalu Yadav attended the wedding of Utkarsh Modi.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar wants to eliminate child marriage in his state and the priests solomnising a wedding may soon be tasked with determining whether the bride is an adult. Officials of the state's Social Welfare Ministry, which is drawing up a list of ideas, say the wedding can proceed only if the priest thinks the bride is an adult a...

Rabri Devi was a Twitter trend today after she said she is looking for wives for her two sons who are ministers in Bihar. Mall-going women are out the running, she said. Curious since the sons in question own a two-acre plot of land on the outskirts of Patna that was being developed as Bihar's largest mall till the centre last month stopped constru...

A woman in Bihar's Buxar district refused to marry a dark-complexioned groom, saying he was not 'smart' enough for her, a police official said today.

A bridegroom was shot dead on his wedding day just after he garlanded his bride to be in Bihar's Bhojpur's district, police said today.

In a bizarre promise to youths of Haryana ahead of the assembly polls this year, BJP leader OP Dhankar has said he will bring brides from Bihar for them if they are unable to find a match in the state infamous for its skewed sex ratio.

In a high-profile wedding, a Congress MLA in Bihar organised a helicopter to bring his bride home. Supporters of the MLA, Tausif Alam, also fired some shots in the air to celebrate the occasion.

Left at the altar - alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too sozzled.

A groom, who had been married hours earlier, and six others were killed in a tragic road accident in Bihar that also left the bride critically injured. Three children were amongst those killed, police said. The celebrations quickly turned to mourning as seven people of the marriage party, including the groom and his father, were killed in Aurangaba...