Singaporean Raveen Misra and his family left Delhi for Mumbai 10 days ago when the air quality in the city worsened to a severe level. Although pollution during winter is an annual problem, the situation this year is “quite bad”, said Mr Misra, 38. “We bought more air purifiers for the home, got all our […]
Guwahati: The First Guwahati International Film Festival (GIFF) ended with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan praising it as “one of the best” in the country. “I am overwhelmed because with the very first festival, Assam has established itself as one of the best in film festivals in the country,” said Gopalakrishnan, who graced […]
As usual the pseudo-nationalists and jali-deshbhakts are flooding the social media with twisted views about why there’s no Indian player in the Pakistan -World XI series. Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar came down heavily on speculations about no Indian presence in the Pakistan-World XI T20I series. Gavaskar said he wasn’t surprised by the fact no […]
There was a beautiful sight in the middle of the clouds. A full moon was shining in the sky. It was September 2, 2017. The tribal people living in Gaya and especially those from Jharkhand State celebrated the Karma Puja in the Magadh University campus. They shared happiness and joy with each other and thanked […]
Patna: The section of public, who threw bricks and stones at the police and burned a police jeep and JCBs demolishing the illegal construction in Digha, are having sleepless nights. On the day of incident (September 5) thousands of men together chased down a handful of policemen. But, now the ball is in Police’s court. […]
The Jungle Raj has never left Bihar, and land mafia calls the shots. In a horrific three hours, adults and children were terrorized as a section of the ‘public’ attacked a demolition team and burnt down the bulldozers. Eyewitness report from Deedar and Yogesh Residents of Krishna Nagar in Digha-Rajiv Nagar area went berserk when […]
This year we have seen the most devastating floods to hit South Asia in a decade. Flooding has killed more than 1,400 people. The focus is on the poor planning and lack of preparedness for annual monsoon rains, as authorities in the different countries struggle to get aid to millions of the displaced and affected […]
Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has set himself a possibly insurmountable challenge: He intends to work with India to achieve peace across South Asia. Those are good intentions on the face of it, but can Abbasi walk the talk? Some media analysts say it is likely to be a tall order for Mr […]
It all started with a ‘lucky shoe’ . In a land where only the rich and powerful could aspire to wear them, one smart aleck got his hands on a pair, but the shoes were the cause of so many problems. The shoes kept the audience in splits throughout the performance of ‘Jootey’, in Patna […]
A few weeks ago the Patna police confiscated all the cigarettes and Marijuana from some of the Betel shops in Digha Ashiyana Road and warned them not to sell near the school and colleges in the area. The educational institutions, it is learnt, had tipped off the cops and named few shops where students smoke […]
The students of Aryanbhatt University, who completed their even semester examinations recently, may have to wait a while before the results come their way: the reason being that for over a week, the section of Mithapur road was so badly water-logged and flooded, that it was almost impossible for examiners and evaluators to reach the […]
[Patna and its perennial traffic problems… Yogesh write on how it feels to travel from East Boring Canal Road to St Xavier’s College] Too many people and too many vehicles are the main barrier when you have to reach somewhere on a given time. Patna really needs more flyovers. Every day I lose my patience […]
