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Job, revenue loss in Bihar’s ‘lazy’ way of tackling alcohol misuse
New Delhi: One year after the arbitrary alcohol ban by the Nitish Kumar Government in Bihar, people are looking back in frustration and anger. Liquor major United Spirits (USL) has said over 500 employees have lost jobs due to shutting down of four bottling facilities in Bihar after alcohol prohibition in the state. Terming prohibition […]
Bihar \ Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
Bihar: Question Nitish, get harassed by cops?
Patna: A harrowing Bihar Day day for two men who demanded more transparency from the Bihar Government: they were detained for six hours in a police station after they raised questions in front of chief minister Nitish Kumar. Two entrepreneurs who questioned chief minister Nitish Kumar at a start-up meet on Tuesday spent six hours […]
Bihar \ birds \ conservation \ ecology \ sparrows
Are we ignoring Bihar’s State Bird?
The house sparrow is Bihar’s State Bird, and what are we doing to protect them? Make your office or home Sparrow friendly Put bird boxes and bird feeders on your office windows and terraces. Plant hedges in and around your office to convert it into a mini bird sanctuary. [We have to remember that this […]
Dismal results for Bihar School Board Retest
Government schools in Bihar would have to deliver better education. This is obvious as the majority of students who appeared for a retest flunked their Board exams yet again. The results of the second attempt of the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) have revealed a sad state of affairs in education in the state. Only […]
Nitish does the Puja Rounds
The Chief Minister of Bihar did the Puja Rounds by visiting the two iconic Patan Devi temples (from where it is believed Patna derives its name). The festival sees thousands of people throng the streets to look at the spectacular Puja pandals and to worship at their favourite Durga Temples. A government press release said […]
Bihar \ book \ Media \ Tharu \ Tharu tribe
First Hindi Book on Bihar’s Forgotten Tribe ?
The Tharu tribe inhabits areas along the right from Uttarkhand, to Uttar Pradesh and arts of Nepal, and about 3.5 lakh Tharus live in the Champaran District of Bihar, in the areas bordering Nepal. Some people would want us to believe that the Tharu tribe originated from the Thar desert region of Rajasthan. Anthropologically, it’s evident […]
Bihar is clueless about World Music Day
I got to know that June 21 has been celebrated as World Music Day, so while everybody else was twisting themselves into knots, because of the new ‘Yoga Day’ political tamasha (started from last year), I busied myself , along with other Newsnet One interns, concentrating on World Music Day instead. Honestly, most Biharis are […]
Dateline Bihar \ editorial \ Frank Krishner \ World Music Day
Imagine! Breaking the Sounds of Silence
The political climate of India is fast becoming critically polarised. The nature of discourse is being vitiated by divisive, shallow diatribe. Parliament, supposedly the platform for enlightened, purposeful discussion and farsighted legislation has been all but reduced to a ridiculous circus of shallow, shouting, sloganeering, and slanderous attention seekers. Where the political leadership in the […]
Our problem : ‘hidden urbanisation’. What?
While the flavour of the month is climate change and the environment, let’s consider a new World Bank study on ‘Leveraging Urbanization in South Asia: Managing Spatial Transformation for Prosperity and Livability’. Quite a mouthful, that title! Making cities “inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by […]
Dateline Bihar \ Frank Krishner \ naked truth
Bihar extends land reforms to single urban women!
Bihar ranks first among the states in terms of rural housing shortage (42.10 lakhs), says census data. Back in 1947, Bihar was probably the first state in the country to enact a separate law, namely the Bihar Privileged Persons Homestead Tenancy Act, for providing security of tenure to landless rural households. Since then the Bihar […]
Bihar \ elections \ Frank Krishner \ polatisation
Pre-poll Polarization in progress?
At six thirty on Saturday morning, the quiet of the Church Road in New Patliputra Colony was broken by a chorus that went, “Gai hamari maata hai, yeh hamari dharma ka mamla hai”. (The cow is our mother, this is our religious issue: note the stress on ‘hamari’) A motely group of a dozen men […]
Sanjay Dutta is back to fight, why are journalists hiding?
It’s interesting how the journalists colour stories and how local media houses cater to sensationalism. First some ‘students’ of Patna Women’s College start a WhatsApp vilification campaign against a male teacher and the college principal. Then came the hounding of Patna Women’s College faculty member Sanjay Dutta (he has since resigned), by politically affiliated student groups and the local […]
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