Amitabh Srivastava

Finance minister Radha Krishna Kishore's remarks against the state Congress chief have not only unsettled the party but also sections of the ruling alliance

Nishant Kumar has been appointed Bihar health minister because of who he is, but he will be judged entirely on what he does

Choudhary, who often invokes 'sushasan', is taking on sectors seen to have little accountability. Yet his order on schools needs sharp on-ground eyes

Choudhary, who often invokes ‘sushasan’, is taking on sectors seen to have little accountability. Yet his order on schools needs sharp on-ground eyes

The new-look Samrat cabinet is in, with Nishant Kumar in the mix: a compact tinted by competition. Now Bihar awaits governance

The latest NCRB report shows a drop in cognisable crimes, but points to a sharp shift in the nature of offences

A National Crime Records Bureau report throws up grim data that makes each student death a classroom left incomplete, a family scarred and a future extinguished

Bihar-linked operatives, handlers or logistical channels repeatedly surface in the sophisticated gold robbery network stretching across large parts of India

Cut power bills, car pool to office and switch to video meetings, says the chief secretary in one of the strongest cost-cutting directives from the government yet

The government, in an imaginative experiment, is sending officials across the state—not as inspectors but travellers