Bihar

Journalists in Bihar Saturday termed the arrest of Navlesh Pathak, editor of Purnia-based English weekly Quisling, in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Raj Kishore Kesri's stabbing case as an attempt to suppress press freedom, according to Indo-Asian News Service (IANS). Kesri, a BJP legislator from Purnia assembly constituency, was knifed Jan 4 in his home by a woman teacher Rupam Pathak...

The murder case of Bharatiya Janata Party BJP MLA Raj Kishore Kesri took a new turn on Thursday with the Bihar police arresting Navlesh Pathak, the editor of a local English weekly Quisling, who had for the first time reported the sexual harassment complaint of Rupam Pathak, according to the Indian Express. The police action came following an FIR filed in the K-Hat police station here against the...

A correspondent of Hindi daily Hindustan was shot dead by miscreants in Bihar's Samastipur district Tuesday night. Vikas Ranjan (32) was gunned down by three motorcycle-borne men in front of his office in Rosera town in the district. The Hindustan Times reported: [ Link] Ranjan was out on the field and had just come out of the newspaper office when the three miscreants, who were waiting for him...

PATNA: Don-turned-MLA Anant Singh, known as Chhote Sarkar of Mokama, on Thursday embarrassed the "sushasan sarkar" of his JD (U) party in Bihar when he and his henchmen thrashed a TV reporter and his cameraman. Prakash Singh and Habib Ali, who work for a private news channel, had gone to Singh's house seeking his reaction on the murder of a girl who had alleged sexual exploitation by him. The MLA...

NDTV Resident Editor Manish Kumar and cameraman Akram Ali were injured when pro-quota medical students attacked them with sticks and stones at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) here today. They were attacked when they went to the hospital to interview students who were injured earlier in a baton-charge by police on pro-quota protestors who had turned violent. As Kumar and Ali arrived...

Criminals on Boring Canal Road in Patna, on Thursday afternoon, attacked and seriously injured India Today's Patna-based chief correspondent Sanjay Kumar Jha. He was rushed to a private nursing home with severe back injury, the police said. The incident took place near Lalita Hotel and Sachdeva Coaching Institute on Boring Canal Road at around 3:00 pm. Interestingly, the manager of the Sachdeva...

Reporters Without Borders expressed dismay at the closure of Radio Raghav FM Mansoorpur 1 under the Indian Telegraphs Act after the station, which its founder said he launched for less than a dollar, garnered international plaudits. The radio, in Mansoorpur in Bihar state in the north-east, was set up without a licence by 22-year-old Raghav Mahto, an electronic equipment repairman. It broadcast...