Articles by Mukesh Kumar Mishra
'Modi dhamaka' loudest in cracker of a Patna Diwali!
This is not the first time that crackers have been named after a celebrity or famous figure. But unlike on earlier occasions, it is a ‘Modi firecracker wave; that has relegated all others to the sidelines.
Updated on Oct 24, 2014 08:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Top Bihar govt officer caught with his pants down
A deputy director in the industries department was found in a compromising position when the city police on Monday raided a salon located in S K Puri area and busted a sex racket going on there. A total of five persons, including the high-profile visitor, were arrested.
Updated on Aug 26, 2014 09:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Massive revamp plan underway at Patna for 350th birth anniversary of Guru
Massive revamp and beautification plans are underway here for the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th guru of Sikhs, at Takht Sri Harmandir Sahib in 2017.
Updated on Aug 26, 2014 05:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Cash, ornaments worth crores stolen from Sadhu Yadav's house recovered
Police on Sunday announced recovery of a huge amount of cash and ornaments stolen from the house of ex-MP Sadhu Yadav, the leaving RJD chief Lalu Prasad's estranged brother-in-law with a lot of explanation to do.
Updated on Jul 20, 2014 09:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Constable kills man over affair with daughter
A 22-year-old man was blinded and shot dead allegedly by the father and brother of his girlfriend when he went to meet her. The girl's father is a Bihar Police constable.
Updated on Jun 30, 2014 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
'NaMo yellow' hottest colour this Holi in Patna
Narendra Modi's rivals may get away questioning the veracity of pre-poll surveys that give him a lead by way of the number of seats he is likely to win for his party in the ensuing Lok Sabha poll.
Updated on Mar 16, 2014 04:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Three Patna schoolboys go on Dawood hunt, return home
They hated studies but wanted to make plenty of money. So, they hit upon a wild idea to catch fugitive Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, now believed to be in Pakistan, and claim the reward on his head.
Updated on Feb 03, 2014 03:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Bihar doc gunned down while returning from clinic
A doctor was gunned down in Patna on Saturday night while returning home from his clinic. Unidentified men opened fire on Rajnish Ranjan, 45, around 9:45pm in the Rajendra Nagar area of the Bihar capital.
Updated on Dec 01, 2013 09:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Kids helped by Big B on the roads again, as mother gives slip and pockets cash
The plight of two abandoned sisters moved superstar Amitabh Bachchan enough for him to react, but failed to change the heart of their mother, who had left them at a school here in the state capital and vanished. The kids still face a bleak future.
Updated on Sep 07, 2013 09:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Engineering student held for FB blackmail scam
The Patna police have nabbed an engineering student on the charge of creating many fake accounts on social networking site Facebook and using them to 'blackmail' college girls. Mukesh Kumar Mishra reports.
Updated on Aug 01, 2013 05:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Man kills self as fiancee watches on webcam
A law student hung himself to death and apparently ‘web cast’ the entire process for the benefit of his girl friend, who was, allegedly, less than responsive to his affections. Mukesh Kumar Mishra reports.
Updated on Jun 14, 2013 01:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Patna: Law student hangs himself during web chat
A law student in Patna hanged himself to death in course of chatting over internet with a female friend.
Updated on Jun 13, 2013 05:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Fake Facebook accounts stump popular Bihar cop
For Shivdeep Waman Lande, the former famous city SP of Patna, his special status of being ‘popular with the masses’ and ‘the most eligible bachelor in town’ have started troubling him, thanks to others, and he is not amused. Mukesh Kumar Mishra reports.
Updated on May 20, 2013 12:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Bihar deputy CM's private secretary held for fraud
The Patna police today arrested Umashankar Sharma, said to be a private secretary of Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, on the charge of allegedly cheating his partner in a private joint business. Mukesh Kumar Mishra reports.
Updated on Mar 08, 2013 10:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Bihar govt sacks 18 absentee prison doctors
Bihar government has sacked altogether 18 specialist doctors and cancelled their contract agreements for not joining duty in different prisons of the state.
Updated on Dec 26, 2012 03:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Triple murder accused has fled to Toronto: SSP
All the evidences show that the incident was pre-planned and he had come to Patna with the sole intention of carrying out the murders
Updated on Dec 19, 2012 02:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Triple murder accused has fled to Toronto: SSP
All the evidences show that the incident was pre-planned and he had come to Patna with the sole intention of carrying out the murders
Updated on Dec 19, 2012 02:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Triple murder in posh Patliputra rocks Patna
A woman and her two daughters were clubbed to death with lathis and iron rods in a blood-curdling incident in the posh Patliputra Colony of north-western part of the state capital in the wee hours of Saturday.
Updated on Dec 15, 2012 09:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Admn helpless, cracker shops open again in City
Despite the ban order of Patna district magistrate (DM), more than 15 shops have once again sprung up in the densely populated Patna City area. The City administration had ordered to close the shops.
Updated on Nov 12, 2012 02:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Residents of Bhagwat Nagar continue protest
Five residents of Bhagwat Nagar under the banner of Adarsh-Bhagwat-Jaiprakash Nagar Morcha on Thursday went on a one-day hunger strike near Amarnath temple to protest against the move by the Patna Muncipal Corporation to demolish 336 houses in the area in pursuance of a Supreme Court order.
Updated on Sep 28, 2012 12:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
11 to attempt self-immolation in Bhagwat Nagar today
With the Supreme Court deadline for demolition of houses ending on Wednesday, residents of Bhagwat Nagar locality in Kankerbagh are in a defiant mood and are prepared to face any consequence to save their dwellings.
Updated on Sep 26, 2012 01:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Escaping juvenile home is child’s play!
Here is a shocker. More than 200 inmates have escaped from Gaighat boy's remand home in Patna City in the last 12 years. In the latest incident late on Thursday evening, three more boys escaped, exposing the security arrangement at the remand home.
Updated on Sep 19, 2012 04:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Thriving business for ‘goonda banks’ in Bihar
Just when one thought that an improved law and order situation had run them out of business in Bihar, a ‘goonda bank’ — money-lending enterprise run by criminals — has surfaced in the eastern fringes of the state capital.
Updated on Mar 13, 2012 12:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Man bobbitised for demanding debt repayment
A woman and her relatives chopped off the genital organ of a man in Nawada, barely 120 km from Patna, allegedly for demanding repayment of a debt.
Updated on Mar 05, 2012 07:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Intruder forces plane to stop
In a serious security breach at the Patna airport, a man reached the tarmac, forcing a GoAir flight to Delhi to clamp on its emergency brakes while gathering speed for a takeoff. No one was injured.
Updated on Dec 29, 2010 11:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Trader shot dead in Patna
A liquor trader and a political party worker, Yaduvan Prasad Yadav, was shot dead by two armed criminals near the Government Malaria office at Mahendru, reports Mukesh Kumar Mishra.
Updated on Nov 19, 2008 10:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Boy fakes abduction, killed by aides
Shankar Kumar, a 22-year-old management student, felt that he must have enough money to enjoy life. He decided that the softest target was his father, reports Mukesh Kumar Mishra.
Updated on Sep 20, 2008 12:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Docs-to-be lay siege to girls’ hostel
According to reports, some NMCH boys forcibly entered the girls' hostel and ransacked it when the girls refused to celebrate New Year with them, reports Mukesh Kumar Mishra.
Updated on Jan 03, 2008 03:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
Schoolboy abducted in Patna, people blocked road
Stone pelting by protestors left several vehicles damaged, they raised slogans against the police and demanded immediate safe recovery of Ankit.
Updated on Apr 13, 2007 10:07 PM IST
None | Mukesh Kumar Mishra, Patna
40 die in Bihar boat tragedy
A boat carrying 70 people capsized in the swollen Ganges near Patna. About 20 people have been rescued.
Updated on Sep 01, 2006 03:12 AM IST
None | Mukesh Kumar Mishra and Rajesh Kumar Thakur, Patna