Students of Patna Women’s College and St. Karen’s Secondary School, and teachers of Don Bosco Academy and St. Karen’s Schools were the top winners in the Songs of Joy Christmas Carol Festival organised on Friday 17th December by St. Xavier’s College of Management and Technology, Patna. Some 225 participants from 8 institutions, in a total […]
The platform of Sasaram Railway station, located in Bihar’s Rohtas district, has been functioning as an impromptu study centre for students for almost 20 years now. It all started in 2002-2003 when a few students started coming to the railway station to study. The reason was that the railway station was the only place in […]
The viral fever outbreak in Bihar, reported by the media earlier this month has worsened significantly. According to media reports, many patients, most of them children, admitted to hospitals have been put on Oxygen support. The outbreak in several districts of Bihar has posed a serious challenge to the state government. Many hospitals in Patna […]
Yesterday night, the 15th of July a mob attacked patients, nurses, and a nun in the only functioning ward of a hospital. Read on: An Open Letter to the Well Wishers of Mokama Nazareth HospitalWith a heavy heart I wish you all a very Good Morning! For Nazareth Hospital it is not a good morning […]
It was a sweltering day in May, and Patna city was in the throes of the second wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Sister Dorothy Fernandez PBVM , the only Presentation sister in the state of Bihar, was knocking at the doors of the home for the destitute women in Padre ki Haveli. The home is […]
Muzaffarpur: Bihar seems to be pulling out all the stops to deal with any possible outbreak of the COVID-19. Prisoners in the central jail in Muzaffarpur are working overtime to produce face- masks that help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The masks will be used for protection to fellow inmates and prison staff, and also […]
3.5 contractual teachers are on strike in Bihar, Some 400 of them have been suspended and arrested. Over 400 contractual schoolteachers in Bihar, who were on strike, have been suspended and FIRs have been registered against several of them for “indiscipline” and for not joining the ongoing evaluation of answer sheets for the Class 12 […]
The photograph of Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi in flood-ravaged Patna went viral a few weeks ago. SuMo, as he is known in BJP circles, stood in shorts on a flyover with crossed arms. Around him stood his family members and a few suitcases. They had been rescued by an NDRF from his […]
With the coming of Diwali festival the price of dry fruits become dearer as the demand of them increases many folds. According to economic times, it is estimated that the business of dry fruits would cross 100-125 crore. Deeraj, a customer said “as the quality of sweets during the festival decreases people tend to push […]
“The root cause of the the flood and water-logging in Patna is not the rains but corruption,” reasoned Vishal Mangalwadi, a noted Indian-American public speaker. Referring to the growing politician- public servant- builder nexus that has grown in the country since Independence, he pointed out that this diminishing of honesty is responsible for the growing […]
Five Assembly seats in Bihar will be up for grabs on October 21, and if you’re thinking of filing your nomination, the last date, which was yesterday, September 30, has been washed away with the flood waters. Kishanganj, Simri Bakhtiarpur, Daraunda, Nathnagar and Belhar are the Assembly constituencies that will be going for the polls. […]
Gone are the days when Patnaites used to prefer home food or savour Litti-Chokha. Today, the average Patna wallah digs into Italian, Mid-Eastern, Thai, Chinese, and continental food. Thanks to the online food ordering apps, people now have plenty of food options, and the food is delivered to the doorstep! In the tech-savvy environment of […]
