Reported By Alok Pandey With Inputs From Agencies

As many of his friends watched in horror, trying to stop him, a young man from Agra killed himself on Wednesday, live streaming the act on Facebook, news agency ANI reported.

More than 4,500 trucks are now stranded on National Highway 8, which connects Tripura to the rest of the country, as heavy rains, mudslides and water-logging has turned a 20 km-stretch of the crucial road into slush.

Hours after the merger of Samajwadi Party and jailed legislator Mukhtar Ansari's Quami Ekta Dal, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav removed a senior minister - Balram Yadav - who is believed to have negotiated the merger. The merger was said to the brainchild of Shivpal Yadav, a senior leader of the Samajwadi Party and the Chief Minister's uncle.

A 13-year-old girl has alleged that she was raped and her legs were burnt by two men from her village in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district nearly six months ago. The police complaint has been registered just a two days ago on June 5.

When police officers in Mathura moved to evict thousands of members of a sect from a public park, they were attacked with swords, knives, guns and grenades. The police then opened fire.

Far away from Delhi - where a court granted bail to Jawaharlal Nehru University student Kanhaiya Kumar this evening - his family sat in their modest home in the small Bihar village of Barauni watching news on television all day long.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley took on Nitish Kumar today for challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to debate development in Bihar, where elections will be held in five phases from next month.

A heavy contingent of police and security personnel has been posted at Jharkhand's Jamshedpur town after clashes erupted between two communities over an alleged molestation incident. Over 100 people were arrested and about 150 have been named in First Information Reports or FIRs.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today said he had been "misquoted" on his reaction to union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's comments that those who want to eat beef "can go to Pakistan."

Police in Bihar have arrested around 1,000 aspiring constables for using "middlemen" to sit their exams for them, in the latest cheating scandal to hit the state, an official said on Monday.

In Bihar towns like Hajipur and Nawada, entire families seem to be setting out for centres where the board examinations are being held.

Nitish Kumar flew back to Patna today with his entourage of a 100-plus legislators, after launching a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP. He has accused them of "attempting to throttle democracy."

A crude bomb exploded this morning at a court in Bihar, killing two people, including a policemen.

Two persons, including a woman, have been killed in a bomb explosion in a court in Arrah in western Bihar this morning.

In northern Assam, militants demanding a separate homeland for indigenous Bodo tribesmen went on a killing spree last night. Protesters demonstrating against the killing were fired upon by the police this morning. 70 people have been killed since Tuesday evening. Here are the 10 latest developments:

As many of his friends watched in horror, trying to stop him, a young man from Agra killed himself on Wednesday, live streaming the act on Facebook, news agency ANI reported.

More than 4,500 trucks are now stranded on National Highway 8, which connects Tripura to the rest of the country, as heavy rains, mudslides and water-logging has turned a 20 km-stretch of the crucial road into slush.

Hours after the merger of Samajwadi Party and jailed legislator Mukhtar Ansari's Quami Ekta Dal, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav removed a senior minister - Balram Yadav - who is believed to have negotiated the merger. The merger was said to the brainchild of Shivpal Yadav, a senior leader of the Samajwadi Party and the Chief Minister's uncle.

A 13-year-old girl has alleged that she was raped and her legs were burnt by two men from her village in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district nearly six months ago. The police complaint has been registered just a two days ago on June 5.

When police officers in Mathura moved to evict thousands of members of a sect from a public park, they were attacked with swords, knives, guns and grenades. The police then opened fire.

Far away from Delhi - where a court granted bail to Jawaharlal Nehru University student Kanhaiya Kumar this evening - his family sat in their modest home in the small Bihar village of Barauni watching news on television all day long.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley took on Nitish Kumar today for challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to debate development in Bihar, where elections will be held in five phases from next month.

A heavy contingent of police and security personnel has been posted at Jharkhand's Jamshedpur town after clashes erupted between two communities over an alleged molestation incident. Over 100 people were arrested and about 150 have been named in First Information Reports or FIRs.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today said he had been "misquoted" on his reaction to union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's comments that those who want to eat beef "can go to Pakistan."

Police in Bihar have arrested around 1,000 aspiring constables for using "middlemen" to sit their exams for them, in the latest cheating scandal to hit the state, an official said on Monday.

In Bihar towns like Hajipur and Nawada, entire families seem to be setting out for centres where the board examinations are being held.

Nitish Kumar flew back to Patna today with his entourage of a 100-plus legislators, after launching a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP. He has accused them of "attempting to throttle democracy."

A crude bomb exploded this morning at a court in Bihar, killing two people, including a policemen.

Two persons, including a woman, have been killed in a bomb explosion in a court in Arrah in western Bihar this morning.

In northern Assam, militants demanding a separate homeland for indigenous Bodo tribesmen went on a killing spree last night. Protesters demonstrating against the killing were fired upon by the police this morning. 70 people have been killed since Tuesday evening. Here are the 10 latest developments: