In the NEET examination controversy, 18 people have been arrested by the Bihar Police so far. The case has been handed over to the CBI which has registered a criminal case.
Four people were arrested in connection with the alleged attack on the CBI team which had reached Bihar's Nawada for probe in the UGC-NET paper leak case.
While, no casualties has been reported; an inquiry is being initiated to ascertain the exact cause behind the incident. Significantly, Sunday's incident marks third bridge collapse in Bihar in less than a week.
According to locals the bridge was built way back in 1991 with contributions from the then Maharajganj MLA Uma Shankar Singh.
Bihar Deputy CM Vijay Sinha claimed that Tejashwi Yadav's personal secretary, Pritam Kumar had called a guest house worker of the National Highways Authority of India to book a room for Sikander Kumar Yadavendu, one of the accused in the case.
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Bihar Police had last month arrested 13 people as part of its investigation into the alleged paper leak in NEET-UG 2024. The arrested accused included examinees, their parents and alleged mastermind Sikander Prasad Yadvendu.
In a major jolt to the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar, the Patna High Court struck down the 65 per cent reservations law. The government will move the top court against the decision, Samrat Choudhary said.
The metro projects for four cities - Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Bhagalpur and Darbhanga will be a big boost to Bihar's infrastructure which will help the local economy to grow in these cities.
Following the reported irregularities the Union education ministry sought a report from the Bihar Police's Economic Offences Unit.
The Patna High Court has struck down Bihar government laws increasing reservations for Backward Classes, Extremely Backward Classes (EBC), Scheduled Castes (SC), and Scheduled Tribes (ST) from 50% to 65%.
Anurag Yadav, who was arrested over the controversy, has confessed that they received the exact questions that were asked in the exam the next day.
The Patna district administration extended the closure of schools for students up to class 8 for three more days due to the ongoing heatwave conditions in the state. The state is experiencing an extreme heatwave situation.
Talking about India's potential, PM Modi while inaugurating the campus said that Nalanda will tell nations which are based on strong human values know how to revive the past and lay the foundation for a better future.
PM Modi visited ancient Nalanda University ruins in Bihar ahead of inaugurating the new Nalanda University campus in Rajgir. This was his first visit to state since Lok Sabha polls. Established around 1,600 years ago, the original Nalanda University is among world's first residential residential.
The new campus of the university is close to the site of the ruins of ancient Nalanda University. The university, established through the Nalanda University Act, 2010, started functioning in 2014.
The locals alleged that the incident took place due to the negligence of the contractor. The bridge was constructed at a reported cost of Rs 12 crore.
An online group called "KNR" is suspected to be behind these hoax threat emails. The group reportedly issued similar emails to several schools in the Delhi-NCR on May 1.
The shocking matter came to light after one of the survivors filed a complaint against the nine people before the court, prompting police to take action. The survivor claimed that police refused to file a case then she moved to court.
JD(U) MP Devesh Chandra Thakur won Sitamarhi Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar, defeating his opponent from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Arjun Rai, by a margin of over 51,000 votes.
The accused had approached the victim on social media and lured her for a job. The survivor said that the police refused to accept her complaint initially, and because of that, she approached the court, after which a case was registered on the matter.
Top News
Latest News
