Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that granting special status to the state will accelerate economic growth in the country.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar defended his repeated demand for special status to the state saying it (the status) will boost private investment in a big way to accelerate its industrial development.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday ordered setting up of a medical board to examine the health condition of former Haryana Minister Om Prakash Chautala, who along with 54 others is serving a jail term in the teachers' recruitment scam.

The long wait ended on Thursday as the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) declared Intermediate results for Science stream today.

Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Wednesday found himself at the centre of controversy with his name being dragged into a "failed" dope test that was conduced before the Athens Games way back in 2004.

Altogther 1.47 lakh candidates were on Monday declared as successful in the Bihar Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) out of 26.79 lakh candidates who had written the examination in December 2011 and January 2012, according to the Education Minister P K Shahi.

An Indian Army soldier was shot dead on Thursday by unidentified assailants in Bihar, police said.

Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover on Monday said it has opened a new engineering test centre in Dubai to conduct extreme hot weather vehicle research, development and testing.

Bihar, which lags behind the national average on development indices like roads, power and per capita income, also has a poor banking network that is posing a roadblock in the growth process.

Sunrisers Hyderabad all-rounder Darren Sammy says their bowling coach Waqar Younis had advised them to bowl like they "do in Test" cricket, when they played Kings XI Punjab in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match.