The recent startling revelation by Nathuni Mistri, a hardcore activist and regional commander of Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) before the police that the brutal murder of a sincere and honest IFS ...

A S the Indian Airlines aircraft descended on Patna on a rainy day last fortnight, I could identify almost all the landmarks of the city - the meandering Ganga, the sprawling Gandhi Maidan, Hotel ...

The author is The Statesman’s Patna-based Special Representative. Your Excellency, the Governor of Gujarat, are you the same person who lorded over Raj Bhavan in Patna from 27 April 1998 to 15 March ...

It must have been a proud moment for the Catholic Church when the foundation stone for the St. Peter's Church was laid on the "roof of the world" on July 29. The Press note issued by the Catholic ...

Barmeshwar Singh, Ranvir Sena chief, is lodged in the Sarswati ward and getting VIP treatment. Incidentally, Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav was lodged in this ward. And Ajay Kanu alias Raviji, PW’s Magadh ...

RANCHI : It’s a kind of story we normally get on the celluloid – a story about greedy, self-indulgent politicians and the deprived lot. In Jharkhand, there exist various accounts of Mr Babulal Marandi ...

A senior journalist & Patna based special correspondent of The Statesman.

The author is The Statesman’s Patna-based Special Representative. Sukath Choudhary is dead. So is my father. But my village, thrown carelessly on the map of Bihar state of India is still there. I love ...