Rashtriya Janta Dal protesters were seen blocking the highways, railway tracks and shouting slogans against the Citizenship Bill and proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) in at least two places in Bihar.

The RJD should contest more seats in Bihar in the next Lok Sabha elections as it is a bigger party than the Congress and RJD leader Lalu Prasad's support base is larger, Congress leader Akhilesh Singh said on Monday.

The opposition RJD has wrested the Jokihat Assembly seat from the ruling JD-U in Bihar. RJD candidate Shahnawaz Alam won the seat by over 41,000 votes, officials said on Thursday.

A special CBI court here on Saturday sentenced RJD chief Lalu Prasad to seven years in jail each in two cases pertaining to the fourth fodder scam case and fined him Rs 60 lakh.

A special CBI court here on Monday convicted RJD chief and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad in the fourth fodder scam case but acquitted another former Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra.

RJD chief and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad was admitted to a hospital here on Saturday for treatment after he complained of chest pain.

Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushil Modi has clarified that the beheading of a man, allegedly because he named Times Square after Narendra Modi, is actually because of a land dispute.

A 70-year-old man has reportedly been beheaded in the Darbhanga district of Bihar for allegedly naming Town Square as 'Narendra Modi chowk'.

A day after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Bihar Assembly elections will be held as scheduled in 2020, opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday said his party was also not in favour of midterm polls.

The RJD will continue the legal battle in the fodder scam case, party leader Raghuvansh Prasad said on Wednesday after Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad was found guilty in the third case in the scam.