Mulayam postpones Bihar tour due to technical problem in plane

Last Updated: Friday, October 29, 2010, 12:28

Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday postponed his election tour to Bihar following a technical problem in his chartered plane, party sources said here.

Bihar govt has failed on all fronts, says Sonia

Last Updated: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 14:38

Stepping up attack on the Nitish Kumar government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday charged that the Bihar administration had failed on all fronts.

Prabhunath claims JD(U) MPs are in touch with him

Last Updated: Sunday, October 24, 2010, 17:33

Senior RJD leader Prabhunath Singh on Sunday claimed that 14 JD(U) MPs are in touch with him and the JD(U) parliamentary party would split.

Maoists raid polling centre in Sitamarhi in Bihar

Last Updated: Sunday, October 24, 2010, 09:08

Heavily-armed Maoists Sunday raided a polling centre and burnt electronic voting machines in Sitamarhi district of Bihar.

Bihar polls: 45 Assembly seats go to polls on Sunday

Last Updated: Saturday, October 23, 2010, 18:19

As 45 Assembly seats in six districts in the Maoist belt of Bihar go to polls in the second phase on Sunday.

Campaigning ends for 2nd phase of Bihar polls

Last Updated: Saturday, October 23, 2010, 17:47

Campaigning for the second phase for 45 Bihar constituencies ends today.

Sonia, Rahul to campaign for Bihar polls again

Last Updated: Saturday, October 23, 2010, 11:12

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, will campaign in Bihar for the third and fourth phases of the Assembly Polls, party leaders said Saturday.

Patna Live: ‘Natha’ takes on Jaitley

Last Updated: Friday, October 22, 2010, 19:12

Natha, the poor farmer in the comic satire "Peepli Live" who contemplates suicide, stepped out of his reel character to take on the real-life role of a questioner at a press conference by BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Friday.

Congress hopes minorities will turn the tide in Bihar

Last Updated: Friday, October 22, 2010, 11:25

Desperate to erase the shame of having won only nine seats in 2005, the Congress hopes its fortunes in Bihar will improve this time because it has fielded more Muslim candidates and also tried to expand the party`s social base.

Bihar polls: All major political parties confident of victory

Last Updated: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 20:05

As the electoral battle in 47 of the 243 assembly seats in Bihar ended in the first phase on Thursday, leaders of all major political parties expressed confidence of a good showing.

Bihar Polls: 219 candidates face criminal charges

Last Updated: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 19:05

At least 129 candidates figuring in the second and third phases of Bihar Assembly elections face serious criminal cases like murder, dacoity and extortion, voluntary groups have claimed.

Rains play spoilsport for Gadkari, Naidu, Ramvilas

Last Updated: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 14:22

Inclement weather condition played spoilsport for star-campaigners of major political parties, including BJP president Nitin Gadkari, its leader M Venkaiah Naidu and LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan who had to cancel their programmes.