In what comes as a disturbing revelation, Naxalites in the states of Bihar and Jharkhand are assuming a huge presence in the narcotic trade.

Five people, including a former village head, were gunned down and burnt in Bihar's Banka district on Saturday night.

At least 12 people were injured, four of them critically, today in a bomb explosion in a jeep near Lakshmipur in Bihar's Jamui district.

An engineer of a private construction firm was abducted by a breakaway faction of naxalites in Gaya district of Bihar, police said today.

Ruling JD (U) MLA Abhay Singh on Friday allegedly commited suicide after shooting his wife and six-month-old daughter dead at his father and Bihar Minister Narendra Singh's official residence in Patna.