“When we have our own Modi, why should we import one,” Nitish had said during last assembly elections in Bihar. He did not budge to the BJP demand to let Narendra Modi campaign in the State. He strongly objected to a poster with a picture of his and Narendra Modi hand in hand. And to keep his secular image intact and to woo Muslim voters, he also returned Rs. 5 crore flood relief contribution to Modi.

These acts of his paid him richly. As a tactic BJP did not mind to play ...

The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India ‘s pluralist and tolerant ethos, has strongly condemned the shocking and inhumane killing of six innocent villagers, including two women and an infant, in the Forbesganj district of Bihar. IAMC has called upon the state government to ensure that the guilty are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

On June 3, 2011, residents of the Rampur and Bhajanpur villages under Forbesganj block ...

The Union Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath on June 15 announced that the government would soon send a team of National Commission for Women (NCW) to Bihar to probe into the killing of a woman and child in Forbesganj in Araria. When the issue of killing of a pregnant woman and a six-month-old baby was raised with the minister, she said that her ministry would soon send a team of NCW to Forbesganj as picture coming from Bihar was very disturbing.

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