Subedar Yadav (60), one of the surviving plaintiffs, at Aurangabad civil court Aurangabad: When a land dispute was taken to the court on Aug 10, 1967, plaintiff Jag Narayan Yadav was seeking a legal claim over three kattha of land. Nearly six decades later, when the verdict finally came, the person who had begun the…

Astroturf for hockey in Patna Patna: Bihar’s first international-standard hockey ground in the state capital is set to be ready by August, with work on the long-delayed Astroturf stadium at the NCC campus behind Rajendra Nagar Physical College entering its final phase. The remaining work is expected to be completed by Aug 15.The Rs 8.44-crore…

Patna: Two children died and at least eight others sustained injuries after a large branch of a nearly 200-year-old peepal tree snapped and fell on devotees during a prayer gathering in Muzaffarpur district on Monday. The incident occurred at Brahmasthan in Madhopur village under Ahiyapur police station area when over 100 villagers had assembled for…

Darbhanga: Additional aistrict and sessions Judge-XI Ranjan Kumar Mishra of the Darbhanga civil court on Monday sentenced two men to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 75,000 on each for the murder of a villager over a dispute related to plucking mangoes.The convicts, Ashraf Nadaf and Mohd Akbar Nadaf, residents of Bajitpur village…