India's two parties at loggerheads over UP polls

7 February 2012, 9:40 pm

Patna, east India (The Statesman/ANN) - After seven years of bonhomie, the JD-U and the BJP are fighting openly and bitterly over encashing the "Bihar turnaround" story in Uttar Pradesh, where the partners in Bihar's ruling coalition are pitched against each other.... Read More »

Insight: From darkest India, an enlightened leader

30 January 2012, 7:03 pm

PATNA, India (Reuters) - There's an apocryphal story about Bihar, a sprawling state on the Gangetic plains of eastern India that for decades held the dubious honor of being the most violent, poverty-stricken and corrupt in the land. A Japanese minister visiting in the 1990s, shocked at the decre... Read More »

From darkest India, an enlightened leader

30 January 2012, 6:30 pm

PATNA, India (Reuters): There's an apocryphal story about Bihar, a sprawling state on the Gangetic plains of eastern India that for decades held the dubious honour of being the most violent, poverty-stricken and corrupt in the land.... Read More »

Train death sparks small riot in India

22 January 2012, 10:30 am

PATNA, India, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Enraged witnesses went on a rampage after a woman was struck by a train in India Saturday night, police said.... Read More »

Rebels attack policemen in India

21 January 2012, 9:34 am

PATNA, India (AP) — Police say suspected Maoist rebels triggered a landmine explosion and killed 13 policemen in eastern India. Police superintendent G. K. Rath said at least two other policemen were injured in the explosion that blew up their mini-bus in Jharkhand state Saturday.... Read More »

Rebels kill 13 policemen in eastern India

21 January 2012, 6:26 am

PATNA, India - Police say suspected Maoist rebels triggered a landmine explosion and killed 13 policemen in eastern...... Read More »

Suspected Maoist rebels trigger landmine, killing 13 policemen in eastern India

21 January 2012, 3:59 am

PATNA, India - Suspected Maoist rebels triggered a powerful land mine Saturday that killed 13 policemen in eastern India, a top police official said.... Read More »

Northern India train collision kills 5 people

11 January 2012, 6:27 am

A railway official says at least five people were killed when a passenger train collided with a freight train in northern India.Local station master K.P. Singh says a freight train at the Karanpuratu railway ...... Read More »

Choque de trenes deja cuatro muertos en la India

10 January 2012, 10:08 pm

PATNA, India - Al menos cuatro personas murieron el miércoles cuando un tren de pasajeros chocó contra otro de carga en el norte de la India, informaron autoridades ferroviarias.... Read More »

Northern India train collision kills 4 people

10 January 2012, 9:34 pm

A railway official says at least four people were killed when a passenger train collided with a freight train in northern India.... Read More »