Migrant labour form the backbone of big city development in various sectors, and especially in construction. The money earned by these migrants help to ease their poverty in their home villages. Yet, government planners and agencies treat these legal migrants like illegal residents. A working paper recently published by two Jesuit institutions in Patna, draw […]
Will Bihar become the new El Dorado? Will Jamui be the Kolar Gold Field of the 21st Century? What’s the buzz? Just a few days ago, the Bihar government decided to allow the mining department to start the exploration project of gold in Jamui district, South Bihar. The news obviously comes as a surprise to […]
Care and protection of Mother Earth and finding our spiritual connections in harmony with Nature was the theme of a special foundation and mentoring session conducted by undergraduate students in Bihar, India. The students from the MassCom department of St. Xavier’s College of Management and Technology joined hundreds of institutions across the world in a […]
With hundreds of stranded youngsters arriving across Indian borders from the Russian-Ukraine conflict zone, a sizeable number of Bihar’s sons and daughters are also in the mix. On Sunday, the families of 97 Bihar students expressed their happiness as they greeted the returnees at the Jayprakash Narain International Airport in Patna, Bihar’s capital. . Earlier […]
As the Supreme Court is coming down heavily on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s irksome penchant for shoving tipplers in jail to enforce prohibition in Bihar, a new directive from the Nitish led administration says that those caught drinking liquor will be let off if they provide information about the bootleggers. Faced with a deluge of […]
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 […]
