Every train crossing the local railway station was crammed with eclipse watchers from all over Bihar.
The day he was indicted, many shops across Bihar drew down their shutters in protest.
Most promising are the state initiatives, including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's in backward Bihar.
Nonetheless, she praised India's evacuation exercises during last year's massive flooding in its Bihar state.
The landslide re-election of Nitish Kumar as chief minister of Bihar in 2010 was another.
Even with compensation, unfortunate Bihar is likely to be worse off without its relatively prosperous south.
K. Singh, an MP from Bihar and economic adviser to the BJP-led government of 1998-2004.
Bihar, long a laggard in development, has slipped back further since Mr Yadav took over.
But with a tenth of India's population, Bihar attracts a hundredth of its private investment.
Such class warfare affects mainly central Bihar, which has starker inequalities than elsewhere in India.
In Bihar, authorities say that such a long spell of heat has damaged mango and lychee crops.
Two elections hence, perhaps, the issues that matter to Bihar's people will also matter to its politicians.
Bihar has so far been the worst affected - with icy winds sweeping through the Gangetic plains.
The worst affected areas are the rural states of central and eastern India like Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Bihar.
Lakshmi Devi, who lives in rural Bihar, is one of 350, 000 people in India known as manual scavengers.
The BBC tried but was unable to get a response from Bihar's Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, on this question.
The JD(U) is worried his candidature may put off Muslim voters, who make up 15% of voters in Bihar.
Bihar had received 64 billion rupees under the same program in the five-year period ended on March 31, 2012.
Two men have been held in Bihar state in connection with the incident.
Like most of their fellows across the city, they are migrants from Bihar, India's poorest and third-most populous state.
But her opponents, sensing a recent shift away from voting by caste in neighbouring Bihar state, are hoping otherwise.
K. Singh, the MP from Bihar, thinks the country needs to recruit 4m new teachers and to retrain 8m.
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The state of Bihar has been the worst hit, with 187 people killed.
By making teachers accountable to local governments, Bihar, India's most unlettered state, roughly halved its truancy rate last year.
The strike affected normal life in states including Gujarat, Bihar, Uttarakhand and Kerala, news agency Press Trust of India reported.
Jharkhand has just a quarter of Bihar's population but, according to Mr Gupta, generates more than 60% of its revenue.
The Bihar legislature in April passed a bill to turn 18 mineral-rich southern districts into the separate state of Jharkhand.
More than 300 people have died in two years of clashes in Bihar - many of them related to caste disputes.
Among the accused are several of Yadav's cronies in the Bihar government, three former cabinet ministers and a host of top-ranking officials.
They have come from Bengal, Bihar, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and elsewhere.
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