PATNA, Jan 28: Nitish Kumar resigned as the chief minister of Bihar today. The resignation comes after days of speculation over the leader eyeing another political switch to return to an alliance with the BJP.

KATHMANDU, March 18: Nepal has opened up the possibility to export electricity to other states of India besides Bihar.

NEW DELHI, May 22: A storm ravaged India's eastern state of Bihar on Thursday, killing at least 33 people, local media reported Saturday citing the state's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

KATHMANDU, Sept 12: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has floated a proposal for mutual seasonal power exchange with the Indian State of Bihar in order to export surplus electricity during the rainy season and import electricity in winter.

KATHMANDU, Feb 8: A 12-year-old Nepali girl was gang raped and murdered in Champaran District of Indian State of Bihar.

LUCKNOW, India, Nov 11: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coalition retained power in Bihar state, results showed on Wednesday, in what was a referendum on Modi’s handling of COVID-19 and which may boost his chances in three more state elections next year.

KATHMANDU, April 12: Various India media reported on Friday that about 200 COVID-19 infected Muslim people are set to enter the India State of Bihar through Nepal's border with the ill intention of spreading the virus in the country under a plot from Pakistan.

11 border points sealed

May 5, 2019 10:50 am

MAHOTTARI, May 5: Eleven border transit points in Mahottari district have been closed since this morning considering the general elections in India.

HETAUDA, Dec 16: The District Police Office (DPO), Hetauda, has arrested a 25-year-old Indian national in connection with the murder of his daughter and wife some two weeks ago.

Nepal gets first modern train tracks

December 15, 2018 09:00 am

JANAKPUR, Dec 15: The competition between two Asian giants, India and China, for influence over tiny Nepal is yielding a bonanza in the form of the Himalayan mountain nation's first modern railway — and possibly more to come.

Souls of My City: Unpredictable life

December 5, 2018 11:44 am

Taiyab Hussain, 62, is from Bihar.  He owns a shop at Kamalpokhari. “I came to Kathmandu with my elder brother. He used to sew mattresses and blankets. I learnt the skills from him and started working with him.  We used to roam around Kathmandu sewing mattresses and blankets for a living,” he said.

Souls of My City: Travelling for good

November 28, 2018 10:06 am

Amar Nachsahani, 35, repairs generators and water pumps. He is from Patna, Bihar. He arrived in Kathmandu three years ago. He traveled with his Nepali friends and ended up working here. “I have been traveling to different places of India and Nepal.  But this is the first time that I have stayed back in the same place for three years,” said Nachsahani. Nachsahani learned the repairing skills in Patna with the help of his friends. He started working at the age of 15.

The incident took place in Supaul district in Bihar. The girls are in critical condition. A mob of over two dozen people thrashed them with sticks after they caught a youth writing lewd comments on the hostel wall and scolded him.

PATNA, INDIA, May 28: In a bizarre incident, teachers of a Katihar school took the students on an excursion to Biratnagar in Nepal instead of scheduled visit to Vikramshila in Bhagalpur just to consume liquor, which is banned in Bihar.

NAWALPARASI, Mar 18: The farmers around the Gandak Command Area in west Nawalparasi will now get some relief from the problem of inundation and erosion that they had been enduring for years.

NEW DELHI, Dec 23: Former chief minister and influencing leader of Bihar state, Lalu Prasad Yadav has been found guilty in one of the four pending fodder scam cases.

PATNA, July 26: Nitish Kumar has resigned as the Chief Minister of Bihar. Kumar has submitted his resignation to Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi. The decision to quit was taken by Kumar at a meeting of JDU MLAs on Wednesday evening.

KATHMANDU, May 11: Notorious Indian gangster Bablu Dube, who was also involved in high-profile kidnapping cases in Nepal, was shot dead by gunmen on Bettiah court premises in West Champaran district in India on Thursday.

INDIA, Jan 5: A delegation of Nepali followers of Sikhism led by Chief of Guru Nanak Service Foundation, Research Center in Birgunj, Jaspal Singh, is partaking in the 1st International Sikh Conclave to be held at Patna of Indian State of Bihar from today.

MAHOTTARI, Dec 19: At a time when booming cross-border drugs trafficking has become a deep concern, a recent agreement reached between security chiefs of Mahottari district and Bihar state of India to jointly curb the trafficking is set to bring some respite to both the countries.

PM Dahal invited for Bihar visit

September 15, 2016 21:28 pm

NEW DELHI, Sept 15: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Chief Minister of Bihar State of India, Nitish Kumar, held a discussion on fostering relations between Nepal and Bihar State.