A six-year-old boy was kidnapped by three persons while he was on way to his school in the city in broad daylight on Monday, prompting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to ask the police to rescue the child at the earliest.

A group of students on Tuesday set afire four air-conditioned bogies of Patna-Delhi Shramjeevi Express at a station near Patna after being stopped by security personnel from forcibly occupying reserved seats.

Sky gazers await for the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century on July 22 as it will provide a rare opportunity to witness the grand event for the people in west, central, east and north-east India.

Justice Deepak Verma, presently a Judge in the Karnataka High Court, has been appointed as Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court, according to a Rashtrapati Bhawan communique.

Anti-MNS protests continued unabated in Bihar for the fourth day on Friday with agitated students indulging in arson and vandalism in Patna over assault on Hindi speaking candidates of railway recruitment examination in Mumbai.

Controversial RJD MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav failed to get reprieve from the Patna High Court, which on Wednesday dismissed his bail petition in CPI(M) legislator Ajit Sarkar murder case.

Seven people including three women were killed when a powerful explosion occurred at an illegally run cracker manufacturing unit in Jehanabad town of Bihar on Saturday.

Six people, including four policemen, were killed in a surprise Maoist attack at the Jajha railway station in Bihar's Jamui District on Sunday.

Although director Ashutosh Gowariker refused to shorten his "Jodhaa Akbar", the exhibitors in the smaller centres have taken matters into their own hands.