Patna News

The over 100-year-old Gole Market in Patna, a unique heritage building constructed as the Bihar capital's first planned municipal market, has been demolished by local authorities as part of a Smart City project.

Patna district magistrate Kumar Ravi said all government and private schools of Patna will remain shut till June 19, due to persisting heatwave-like condition for the past several days.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today launched the Mukhyamantri Vriddha Pension Yojna for poor people above 60 years of age in the state.

A cloth trader in Patna allegedly shot himself with his licensed pistol after shooting his wife and daughter in Kidwaipuri area, police said on Tuesday.

An engineer employed with the Bihar government was on Saturday arrested while taking a bribe of Rs 14 lakh by the vigilance department, which also conducted a raid at his residence from where cash and documents relating to properties owned by him were seized.

The Patna Sahib seat, which was carved out in 2008 after the delimitation process, voted for Mr Sinha in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls by a margin of over 2.65 lakhs

A class 11 student was stabbed to death on Monday during clashes that erupted between two groups in Patrakar Nagar area in Patna.

During the 2015 assembly polls in Bihar, Sabah and Farah, then 19, cast their votes on a single voter identity card. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the twin sisters-- joined at the head since birth-- have earned the right to be treated as separate individuals with independent voting rights.

A jeweller and his 20-year old daughter in Bihar were shot at allegedly by Maoists dressed as policemen on Tuesday.

The self-proclaimed sub-zonal commander of Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) Rustam alias Basant Bhokta was shot dead near Bhawanidih village which comes under extremists dominated Roshanganj area on the night of May 4.

After diamond earrings were stolen from his shop, a jeweler in Patna pointed out towards an unlikely thief-a rat. Surprisingly unfazed by the loss, the shopkeeper said he was delighted that the rat, who believed to be an embodiment of god, took away the earrings on the auspicious day of 'Mahashivratri' and gave them as a present to goddess Parvati.

Patna police on Wednesday said it has arrested a man for sharing a message on social media that the March 3 rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, scheduled to be held at the Gandhi Maidan in Patna, could be hit by an explosion.

Five new facility centers for the learners-- Students Support Services Center, Alumni Cell, Career Guidance & Counselling Cell, Placement Cell and Grievance Cell-were inaugurated by the Vice Chancellor.

A businessman was shot dead by unidentified persons in Bihar capital Patna, a senior police officer said Sunday.

Senior BJP leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Friday said the cricket is not an Indian game, and kabaddi and football should be promoted.