Saharsa District

Four labourers died due to asphyxiation and another fell unconscious after they entered a newly constructed septic tank in Bihar's Saharsa district today, police said.

Unidentified attackers have killed district RJD youth president Shyam Sundar Tanti with a sharp weapon at Subedari tola under Sadar police station area of Bihar's Saharsa district late night on Saturday, the police said on Sunday.

A voter in Bihars Saharsa district, who voted first and then cremated his father's body, has been praised by the Election Commission.

Over 2.5 lakh contractual school teachers in Bihar have gone on an indefinite strike starting Thursday, demanding better working conditions and pay parity with permanent teachers. The strike which is underway in many districts of Bihar could affect teaching in over seventy thousand schools.

Condemning doctors as "executioners" and "flesh-eating devils", Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Rajesh Ranjan, better known as Pappu Yadav, has said he will launch a statewide agitation from Bihar's Saharsa district on October 13 to rein them in.

Bihar government has ordered immediate evacuation of people living along the embankment of the Kosi river in four districts as a 10-metre high wall of water is expected to sweep down the river from Nepal by this evening or tonight, officials said.

A goods train rammed into a bus at an unmanned railway crossing near Saraigarh in Bihar's Supaul district on Wednesday, leaving one person dead and six others injured.

A local court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Saharsa district magistrate for misbehaving with a woman and her husband in April 2006.

Four labourers died due to asphyxiation and another fell unconscious after they entered a newly constructed septic tank in Bihar's Saharsa district today, police said.

Unidentified attackers have killed district RJD youth president Shyam Sundar Tanti with a sharp weapon at Subedari tola under Sadar police station area of Bihar's Saharsa district late night on Saturday, the police said on Sunday.

A voter in Bihars Saharsa district, who voted first and then cremated his father's body, has been praised by the Election Commission.

Over 2.5 lakh contractual school teachers in Bihar have gone on an indefinite strike starting Thursday, demanding better working conditions and pay parity with permanent teachers. The strike which is underway in many districts of Bihar could affect teaching in over seventy thousand schools.

Condemning doctors as "executioners" and "flesh-eating devils", Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Rajesh Ranjan, better known as Pappu Yadav, has said he will launch a statewide agitation from Bihar's Saharsa district on October 13 to rein them in.

Bihar government has ordered immediate evacuation of people living along the embankment of the Kosi river in four districts as a 10-metre high wall of water is expected to sweep down the river from Nepal by this evening or tonight, officials said.

A goods train rammed into a bus at an unmanned railway crossing near Saraigarh in Bihar's Supaul district on Wednesday, leaving one person dead and six others injured.

A local court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Saharsa district magistrate for misbehaving with a woman and her husband in April 2006.