Bihar opposition demands CBI probe into corruption in local bodies

October 8th, 2009 PATNA - Large scale financial irregularities and corruption were exposed in Bihar's panchayati raj institutions and urban local bodies in the latest audit report of the examiner of local accounts. The report was released by Bihar Principal Accountant General (PAG) (Audit) A.K.

August 15th, 2009 PATNA - Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has promised the people of the state better infrastructure and more measures to curb corruption in the administration. Kumar was speaking after hoisting the national flag at the Independence Day programme in Gandhi Maidan here on Saturday.

August 15th, 2009 PATNA - Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hoisted the national flag here on India's 63rd Independence Day Saturday and promised better infrastructure and more measures to curb corruption. Speaking at the Gandhi Maidan here, Nitish Kumar reiterated that he would make all efforts to make Bihar a developed state by providing education and healthcare facilities to all and improving road connectivity.

August 15th, 2009 PATNA - Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hoisted the national flag on Independence Day Saturday and promised adequate relief to people affected by drought, better infrastructure in the state and more measures to curb corruption. Speaking at the Gandhi Maidan here, Nitish Kumar expressed concern for the millions hit by drought this year due to scanty rainfall in the state.

August 1st, 2009 A class III girl student from Dalit community studying in a government middle school was stripped naked in the presence of the school teacher by some boys of the same school in Bihar, according to a late-reaching report. The incident which relates to an upgraded middle school in Mohanpur block of Samastipur district took place on July 25 but came to light when the Dalit girls stopped attending the schools.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The entire opposition Thursday walked out of the Lok Sabha demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) or a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into allegations of corruption in the export of non-Basmati rice to African countries. A calling attention motion was moved by Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Arjun Charan Sethi and four MPs including Samajwadi Party's Shailendra Kumar, Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) Basudeb Acharia and Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Gopinath Munde.

July 27th, 2009 A woman in Bihar chopped off genitals of her husband after he asked her to cook stolen chicken, police and villagers said today.  The bizarre incident took place at Minapur village under Piprahi police station in Sitamarhi district of Bihar. Witnesses said Haruti Khan stole a chicken from the house of his neihghbour Sunday evening and asked his wife to cook but she returned it back to her neighbour.

June 26th, 2009 PATNA - Neither display of placards nor shouting of slogans against the Nitish Kumar-led government -- the month-long monsoon session of the Bihar assembly began on a different note Friday. Peacefully. Contrary to past practice, when the opposition normally created ruckus in the house, the first day of the session saw the formal commencement marked by a brief address by the speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary following which he ordered adjournment for the day.

June 25th, 2009 PATNA - Engineers in Bihar have threatened to go on an indefinite Statewide strike from first week of July to protest against the alleged murder of one of their colleagues recently. Members of Bihar Engineering Services Coordination Committee (BESCC) have demanded compensation of 2.5 million rupees for the family of the deceased, besides a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

May 25th, 2009 PATNA - The headmasters of four primary schools in Bihar's Darbhanga district were suspended for irregularities in the mid-day meal scheme for schoolchildren, officials said Monday. The headmasters were suspended Saturday after an enquiry found them guilty of corruption.

March 2nd, 2009 PATNA - The Bihar government is likely to introduce an anti-corruption bill in the state assembly within the next two days, after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's admission that corruption has been a big hurdle in state's development, a minister said here Monday. Minister for Law, Public Information and Public Relations Ramnath Thakur said the bill would be introduced in the state assembly either Tuesday or Wednesday.

February 18th, 2009 PATNA - Five workers were found dead in the premises of an iron factory in the Bihar capital Thursday, police said pointing out that all the bodies bore injury marks. The bodies of the five workers of Magadh Iron factory were found in a room.

February 2nd, 2009 PATNA - Shambhu Srivastav, a senior leader of Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) has demanded a Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) probe into the assets acquired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his cabinet colleagues and top bureacrats. 'I have demanded a probe by the CVC into the assets acquired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and political leaders, including ministers and administrative officers close to Nitish Kumar,' Srivastav, a legislator and former national spokesperson and general secretary of JD-U, told IANS here Tuesday.

January 7th, 2009 PATNA - An indefinite strike by more than 300,000 government employees in Bihar, which entered its second day Thursday, is likely to go on as the state government has taken a tough stand and decided not to concede their demands. The employees went on indefinite strike Wednesday, demanding implementation of the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission in 'letter and spirit' after failure of talks with Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, who also holds the finance portfolio.

January 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to entertain a lawsuit seeking a probe into allegations that Railways Minister Lalu Prasad has secured massive landed property in Bihar by providing jobs and contracts of his ministry to one and all. A bench of Chief Justice K.G.