The Latest Breaking News from Bihar

Located in Patna district, the assembly constituency of Kumhrar holds great value for the BJP. The party has continuously scripted wins here since 1990, with the late Sushil Kumar Modi serving three terms as MLA and Arun Sinha currently holding the seat. 

This week on TV Newsance, the drama shifts from Delhi’s ghats to Bihar’s gullies, and the Godi anchors are outdoing themselves yet again! 

Tension continues to grip Mokama in Bihar after the killing of Dularchand Yadav, a Jan Suraaj worker, with rival candidates trading accusations over who was responsible. The clash has laid bare the old muscle politics that still shape elections in the region.

With the Chhath festival over, Bihar’s election season is heating up again. The Mahagathbandhan held its first joint rally in Sakra, Muzaffarpur, where top leaders Rahul Gandhi, Tejashwi Yadav, and Mukesh Sahani shared the stage.

If you visit Patna, you will find hundreds of autorickshaws and e-rickshaws facilitating everyday commute. But few know what life is like for the people driving them.

Days before polling in Bihar, Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj suffered an early setback in five constituencies. Candidates either went missing, had their nominations canceled, or withdrew at the last minute citing “health” and “social pressure”.

In early September 2025, the Bharatiya Janata Party accused Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera and his wife, Telangana Congress vice president Kota Neelima, of electoral violations. 

Dowry-related crimes in India are routinely underreported and undercounted, an IndiaSpend analysis of government data and various studies shows. This reflects in official data as well. National crime data show that several states routinely report hundreds of dowry deaths but few or no cases under the dowry harassment law. In 2022 for…

Jhurana Das made Bihar her home more than four decades ago. She moved to the state as a 23-year-old bride. It is where she built her life, and it is where she lost her husband to a kidney ailment last year. Now, as Jhurana approaches 70, she has to prove…

Paradoxical as it may sound, women appear to be dying at a faster rate than men in Bihar – at least if the Election Commission of India is to be believed. This defies state records, which peg deaths among women being lower than men.

Increasingly, across a widening swathe of the world, the central campaign issue for right-wing parties is immigration. Recent statements by top leaders, along with a series of administrative moves, suggest that with the Ayodhya Ram temple built and Article 370 abrogated, immigration is now emerging as the key political issue…