Patna News

The incident took place after unidentified people barged into his house this morning and shot at him

Two employees of a shelter for women with mental disabilities in Patna were arrested last evening after the death of two inmates - a 16-year-old girl and a 40-year-old woman - on Friday. Police say the officials of the state-run facility and Patna Medical College did not inform them about the deaths and that they went ahead had got the post-mortem done.

Simultaneous raids were conducted in jails across Bihar on Saturday leading to recovery of several items which had found their way inside the premises illegally, official sources said here.

At least 25 Kanwariyas were injured when the bus they were travelling in overturned and fell into a roadside ditch in between Lakhisarai and Patna today, the police said.

Nearly a dozen patients have died during a strike by Bihar's doctors, which was called-off on Friday after an assurance by the state government to fulfill their demands, officials said.

The toilet wall collapsed in the second class passengers' waiting room's platform number 1 of the Patna junction railway station.

With Patna receiving more than 140 mm of rainfall in the last 36-hours, the district administration on Sunday ordered suspension of academic activities in all schools on Monday, officials said.

A large of part of a road in Patna caved in on Sunday following heavy rains that pounded the state capital round the clock, officials said.

A city court on Friday awarded prison terms to two female teachers of a noted school here after holding them guilty of unnatural sexual act with a five-year-old girl student two years ago.

Accused Awadhesh Yadav was reportedly angry with his father who refused to give him more money from the amount that he had received post-retirement from the Railways.

With a drought-like condition looming large over Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today held a meeting with officials from different departments to take stock of the situation.

The opposition RJD in Bihar today claimed that there was a stampede-like situation within the NDA in Bihar with many MLAs of the ruling coalition willing to switch sides.

A court in Patna has convicted two woman teachers of a renowned English-medium school for "unnatural sexual act" with a five-year-old girl student. The order was passed on Thursday by Special POCSO judge Ravindra Nath Tripathi, who fixed July 20 as the date for deciding the quantum of sentence for Nutan Joseph and Indu Anand.

Nearly 100 students have fallen sick apparently due to food poisoning at a government-run residential school in Bihar's Lakhisarai district, an official said.

A six-year-old student died under mysterious circumstances in a private residential school in Patna today, triggering violent protests against the management, police said.