PURNEA, Feb. 11 -- After a 12-hour search, police in Bihar's Purnea district on Wednesday morning safely recovered two children, aged four and three, who were allegedly kidnapped from Government Medic... Read More
PURNEA, Feb. 10 -- A four-year-old boy and his three-year-old sister went missing from the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Purnea, on Monday evening, officials said. The children's mo... Read More
PURNEA, Jan. 31 -- For decades, the Kosi River - infamously known as the "Sorrow of Bihar"- was the harbinger of woes that would engulf the region after every rain-infested flood. Now, the fortunes ar... Read More
PURNEA, Jan. 27 -- Armed criminals shot dead a 30-year-old man, the son of a prominent businessman, at a crowded location in Purnea district town on Tuesday morning, police said. The deceased has bee... Read More
PURNEA, Jan. 23 -- Police in Bihar's Purnea have registered an FIR against former Zila Parishad (district board) member, his family and aides under various sections of serious nature in connection wit... Read More
PURNEA, Jan. 22 -- The farming community of Bihar's Purnea went global on Wednesday as the district's Geographical Indication (GI)-tagged Mithila Makhana was exported for the first time to Dubai via t... Read More
PURNEA, Jan. 22 -- Purnea police have arrested eight members of a West Bengal-based drug smuggling racket allegedly involved in peddling brown sugar (heroin), cannabis and other contraband across Biha... Read More
PURNEA, Jan. 20 -- A person may reach Purnea from Delhi within two hours by air, but it can take more than two hours to cover a distance of just ten kilometres from the airport to the town. This has b... Read More
PURNEA, Jan. 7 -- An inter-district bike-lifting gang was busted with the arrest of six of its members on Wednesday in Purnea, police said. Police said efforts were on to arrest the remaining members... Read More
PURNEA, Dec. 30 -- Veteran Congress leader and former MLA from Kadwa in Katihar district, Shakeel Ahmad Khan's assessment that the Congress should pursue independent politics in Bihar-alleging that it... Read More