Madhubani

Five people lost their lives due to lightning strikes in Bihar's Madhubani district on Thursday while 18 students were injured in the Bhojpur district.

Another bridge in Bihar went out of commission today, making it the sixth in 10 days. The bridge in Thakurganj block sunk by a feet after the water level of the Bund river increased following heavy rains.

An under construction bridge collapsed in Bihar's Madhubani region on Friday in the fifth incident of its kind in the state over the last nine days.

The examinees happen to be BA part 3 students of colleges based at Madhubani, Samastipur and Begusarai districts, all affiliated to the Lalit Narayan Mithila University headquartered in Darbhanga.

The alarming condition of National Highway 227 that goes through Bihar's Madhubani has been laid bare in the aerial video.

"Most of the children were admitted on the basis of documents signed by the mukhiya (head) of their villages," said an official. The children are aged 12-15, and belong to Purnea and Madhubani districts of Bihar

Soon after fire broke out in the halted train at Bihar's Madhubani railway station on Saturday, the Eastern Central Railway (ECR) said that a high-level inquiry into the incident will be conducted.

Raghvendra Kumar, a resident of Madhubani in Bihar, sold his ancestral land so that he could distribute over 50,000 helmets among those who ride two wheelers without the protective gear.

Two policemen allegedly attacked a judge inside a courtroom in Bihar's Madhubani district on Thursday, prompting the Patna High Court to take suo motu cognizance of the matter and ask the state''s director general of police to file a status report.

The Bar association of Jhanjharpur has condemned the attack on the ADJ and called it an attempt to stifle the judiciary. They also specifically named the SP and questioned his role in the incident.

The body of Buddhinath Jha, alias Avinash Jha, a 22-year-old journalist and RTI activist who was kidnapped four days ago, was found on Friday evening - burned and tossed by the roadside - near a village in Bihar's Madhubani district.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday asserted that reports claiming 148 train passengers recently tested positive for COVID-19 at Madhubani railway station are false.

A court in Bihar's Madhubani district has directed a man accused of molesting a woman to wash and iron the clothes of all female residents of his village, free of cost, by way of repentance.

A 15-year-old deaf and mute girl has been allegedly gang-raped in Bihar's Madhubani district and her eyes were damaged with a sharp object so that she couldn't identify the perpetrators, police said on Wednesday.

The Bihar opposition's chief ministerial candidate, Tejashwi Yadav, today condemned the hurling of onions at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Madhubani during a public meeting, saying there are other forms of protest in a democracy.

Five people lost their lives due to lightning strikes in Bihar's Madhubani district on Thursday while 18 students were injured in the Bhojpur district.

Another bridge in Bihar went out of commission today, making it the sixth in 10 days. The bridge in Thakurganj block sunk by a feet after the water level of the Bund river increased following heavy rains.

An under construction bridge collapsed in Bihar's Madhubani region on Friday in the fifth incident of its kind in the state over the last nine days.

The examinees happen to be BA part 3 students of colleges based at Madhubani, Samastipur and Begusarai districts, all affiliated to the Lalit Narayan Mithila University headquartered in Darbhanga.

The alarming condition of National Highway 227 that goes through Bihar's Madhubani has been laid bare in the aerial video.

"Most of the children were admitted on the basis of documents signed by the mukhiya (head) of their villages," said an official. The children are aged 12-15, and belong to Purnea and Madhubani districts of Bihar

Soon after fire broke out in the halted train at Bihar's Madhubani railway station on Saturday, the Eastern Central Railway (ECR) said that a high-level inquiry into the incident will be conducted.

Raghvendra Kumar, a resident of Madhubani in Bihar, sold his ancestral land so that he could distribute over 50,000 helmets among those who ride two wheelers without the protective gear.

Two policemen allegedly attacked a judge inside a courtroom in Bihar's Madhubani district on Thursday, prompting the Patna High Court to take suo motu cognizance of the matter and ask the state''s director general of police to file a status report.

The Bar association of Jhanjharpur has condemned the attack on the ADJ and called it an attempt to stifle the judiciary. They also specifically named the SP and questioned his role in the incident.

The body of Buddhinath Jha, alias Avinash Jha, a 22-year-old journalist and RTI activist who was kidnapped four days ago, was found on Friday evening - burned and tossed by the roadside - near a village in Bihar's Madhubani district.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday asserted that reports claiming 148 train passengers recently tested positive for COVID-19 at Madhubani railway station are false.

A court in Bihar's Madhubani district has directed a man accused of molesting a woman to wash and iron the clothes of all female residents of his village, free of cost, by way of repentance.

A 15-year-old deaf and mute girl has been allegedly gang-raped in Bihar's Madhubani district and her eyes were damaged with a sharp object so that she couldn't identify the perpetrators, police said on Wednesday.

The Bihar opposition's chief ministerial candidate, Tejashwi Yadav, today condemned the hurling of onions at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Madhubani during a public meeting, saying there are other forms of protest in a democracy.