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Image Source : PTI/ REPRESENTATIONAL (FILE). Bihar: Man dies by suicide after killing wife, 3 daughters in Khagaria Khagaria news: A man allegedly killed his wife and three daughters, including two minors, and then hanged himself to death in Bihar's Khagaria district today (June 14), police said. According to police, the incident took place at around 1.30 am in Ekhania village. "It is suspected that Munna Yadav first killed his wife, Puja Devi, and then his three daughters- Suman (18), Anchal (16) and Roshni Kumari (15) with a sharp object. After that, he tried to kill his two sons also, but they managed to flee. Yadav then hanged himself from a tree outside his house. Both sons of Yadav informed the police," Amitesh Kumar, Superintendent of Police of Khagaria told media. The SP said both the sons of Yadav narrated the sequence of events to the police. The incident took place at around 1.30 am on Wednesday, as informed by both sons of Yadav. "The exact cause of the incident is not known. Police are collecting all relevant information pertaining to the incident. Bodies have been sent for the post-mortem examination," said the SP. (With PTI inputs)

The high court asked the Bihar government to submit the action taken report on the next date of hearing. The managing director of SP Singla Construction was also directed to remain present before the court along with his expert team on June 21, when the matter will come up for hearing again. “This court finds that the state government has taken the matter of collapsing of the bridge seriously and has also taken action against its authorities and the company. The state government is directed to submit its action taken report on the next date of hearing," it said. The HC also directed the contractor to submit its study report relating to construction work in connection with the ₹1,710 crore Sultanganj-Aguwani bridge. The bench said it seeks to prevent the misuse of public money and exploitation of natural resources in the interest of the society. The four-lane Sultanganj-Aguwani bridge project started in 2014 and was scheduled to be completed in 2019.

In an exclusive interview with India TV, Santosh Kumar Suman accused Chief Minister On being questioned, if his party will attend the Opposition party meeting in Patna on June 23"...the existence of my party was under threat, I did this to protect it..," said Santosh Kumar Suman after resigning as a Bihar minister. "When we were not even invited, when we were not even recognised as a party, how would we have been invited?," he said. Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Friday demanded at least five seats for his HAM, a junior partner in the state's ruling 'Mahagathbandhan', in next year's Lok Sabha polls. Santosh Kumar Suman, who is the national president of the HAM had also last week said that the party will not agree to an offer of less than five of 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar. HAM is a regional party in Bihar which was founded by Jitan Ram Manjhi in 2015 and has a total of 4 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Amid Nitish Kumar's talks with several opposition leaders as part of his effort to forge an alliance against the BJP for 2024 Assembly elections, Jitan Ram Manjhi set political circles abuzz after meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah. Jitan Ram Manjhi was part of the RJD-led alliance in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, which the JD(U) and the BJP contested together. A Dalit leader, he enjoys influence in his 'Manjhi' community in parts of Bihar.

By Aditya Vaibhav: The Centre has said that land allocated by the Bihar government for the construction of an All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS) in Darbhanga was not suitable. In a letter written to Bihar Additional Chief Secretary Pratyaya Amrit on May 26, accessed by India Today, the central government listed reasons why the allocated land was not suitable for the project. The Centre rejected the allocated land after a ground visit by a team of health ministry officials in April. In the letter to the Bihar government, the Centre said that the proposed land was a low-lying area and the challenge to fill and compact the total area of approximately 151 acres with quality soil would be a costly and time-consuming process. It also said that there may be a possibility of waterlogging in the surrounding lowland areas if structures are built on filled-up land. "The resultant drainage issues at the site may be compounded as the surface layer of natural ground has low permeability," the letter read. Former Bihar deputy chief minister and BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi has criticised the Nitish Kumar-led state government for delaying the AIIMS project in Darbhanga. Modi said, "History will never forget that Nitish impeded the construction of the proposed AIIMS in Darbhanga as he’s afraid that the credit will go to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” Responding to the objections raised by the Centre on the proposed land, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said that he coul...