Village Head Bihar

The Bihar government on Thursday issued a directive saying that if child marriage is reported from a village, the mukhiya' (village head) concerned will be held responsible for the illegal act.

"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

After the video of a woman in Darbhanga in Bihar went viral in which she was tonsured and paraded in the entire village over the suspicion of an extra-marital affair, the police have arrested her husband.

The actress posted a video collage featuring glimpses of her trips to Vaishno Devi, Rishikesh, India Gate, a village in Bihar, Jaipur and Goa

Six people were detained on Tuesday in a shocking case in which a minor girl was gang-raped, her head was shaved and she was paraded through her village as a punishment by the panchayat in Gaya district of Bihar, police said.

Two men barged into the house of a village head in Bihar's Khagaria district and gunned down her husband who was asleep in the wee hours today, the police said.

A village organisation head was arrested on Monday while a JDU leader and two others were detained a day after an RTI activist and his friend were shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bihar's Jamui district, police said.

Two journalists were killed in Bihar last night, allegedly run over by a village council head and his men in Bhojpur, around 80 km from Patna. Navin

For the family of Brij Kishore Yadav, the grief at the soldier's death in the pre-dawn Jaish-e- Mohammad attack on a Border Security Force camp in Kashmir is gradually turning to anger. BK Yadav was hoping to head back home to his village in Bihar for a vacation next month. That trip got advanced under very tragic circumstances.

I want to study mechanical engineering at IIT Kharagpur. I want to be an entrepreneur and work within India. I live in a village where the government hospital has been barely functional for years. I want to build a hospital at my village. That's my dream.

Thirty-five people, including 20 women, were arrested from a Bihar village on Saturday on charges of burning the husband of a village head over a land dispute, police said.

Brahmeshwar Mukhiya, who headed the banned, upper caste militia Ranvir Sena, was shot dead on Friday morning by unidentified people at his village in Bihar's Bhojpur district. Buses and offices have been set on fire by supporters of the Ranvir Sena. Curfew has been declared in the town of Arrah.

A 35-year-old woman, mother of four, was found murdered inside her house in the national capital, police said on Saturday and added that her husband is the prime suspect. Jubeda Khatoon, who hailed from Oriya village in Bihar, was found in a pool of blood in her residence in East Delhi's Jagatpuri by a neighbour around 9.30 a.m. on Saturday. The ...

A 22-year-old engineering student was elected as the head of a village council here, becoming possibly the youngest person to be chosen for the post in the on-going Bihar panchayat polls.Ajay Kumar, who is studying engineering at an institute in Jamshedpur in neighbouring Jharkhand, was elected mukhiya (village council head) of Haradaspur Diyara pa...

The Bihar government on Thursday issued a directive saying that if child marriage is reported from a village, the mukhiya' (village head) concerned will be held responsible for the illegal act.

"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

After the video of a woman in Darbhanga in Bihar went viral in which she was tonsured and paraded in the entire village over the suspicion of an extra-marital affair, the police have arrested her husband.

The actress posted a video collage featuring glimpses of her trips to Vaishno Devi, Rishikesh, India Gate, a village in Bihar, Jaipur and Goa

Six people were detained on Tuesday in a shocking case in which a minor girl was gang-raped, her head was shaved and she was paraded through her village as a punishment by the panchayat in Gaya district of Bihar, police said.

Two men barged into the house of a village head in Bihar's Khagaria district and gunned down her husband who was asleep in the wee hours today, the police said.

A village organisation head was arrested on Monday while a JDU leader and two others were detained a day after an RTI activist and his friend were shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bihar's Jamui district, police said.

Two journalists were killed in Bihar last night, allegedly run over by a village council head and his men in Bhojpur, around 80 km from Patna. Navin

For the family of Brij Kishore Yadav, the grief at the soldier's death in the pre-dawn Jaish-e- Mohammad attack on a Border Security Force camp in Kashmir is gradually turning to anger. BK Yadav was hoping to head back home to his village in Bihar for a vacation next month. That trip got advanced under very tragic circumstances.

I want to study mechanical engineering at IIT Kharagpur. I want to be an entrepreneur and work within India. I live in a village where the government hospital has been barely functional for years. I want to build a hospital at my village. That's my dream.

Thirty-five people, including 20 women, were arrested from a Bihar village on Saturday on charges of burning the husband of a village head over a land dispute, police said.

Brahmeshwar Mukhiya, who headed the banned, upper caste militia Ranvir Sena, was shot dead on Friday morning by unidentified people at his village in Bihar's Bhojpur district. Buses and offices have been set on fire by supporters of the Ranvir Sena. Curfew has been declared in the town of Arrah.

A 35-year-old woman, mother of four, was found murdered inside her house in the national capital, police said on Saturday and added that her husband is the prime suspect. Jubeda Khatoon, who hailed from Oriya village in Bihar, was found in a pool of blood in her residence in East Delhi's Jagatpuri by a neighbour around 9.30 a.m. on Saturday. The ...

A 22-year-old engineering student was elected as the head of a village council here, becoming possibly the youngest person to be chosen for the post in the on-going Bihar panchayat polls.Ajay Kumar, who is studying engineering at an institute in Jamshedpur in neighbouring Jharkhand, was elected mukhiya (village council head) of Haradaspur Diyara pa...