Bihar Priest

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) condemned the gruesome killing of the man in Gopalganj and slammed the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's government asserting that it is not "Nitish-raj but Jungle-raj in Bihar".

A priest was shot dead and his eyes gouged out in Bihar's Gopalganj district yesterday, the police said.

Amid strains in the marriage of former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's son Tej Pratap Yadav, an 11-day puja was performed at the Maa Vindhyavasini Devi temple in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur, a priest said Friday.

The police have arrested a pastor in Bihar who is accused of raping two women on the pretext of driving out evil spirits, an official said today. Chandrama Raj, the pastor with the Indian Mission Church in Bihar, was arrested after one of the victims filed a complaint in September.

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...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) condemned the gruesome killing of the man in Gopalganj and slammed the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's government asserting that it is not "Nitish-raj but Jungle-raj in Bihar".

A priest was shot dead and his eyes gouged out in Bihar's Gopalganj district yesterday, the police said.

Amid strains in the marriage of former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's son Tej Pratap Yadav, an 11-day puja was performed at the Maa Vindhyavasini Devi temple in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur, a priest said Friday.

The police have arrested a pastor in Bihar who is accused of raping two women on the pretext of driving out evil spirits, an official said today. Chandrama Raj, the pastor with the Indian Mission Church in Bihar, was arrested after one of the victims filed a complaint in September.

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...