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 […]
Nitish Kumar, a 16 year old boy (who, incidentally, is the namesake of the Bihar Chief Minister), from a village in Gaya district, is currently swathed in bandages at Apollo Burn Hospital in Patna. Over 55 percent of his body has no skin. His skin peeled off from the neck downwards, after ‘unidentified’ men on […]
नीतीश कुमार जातिगत जनगणना को लेकर इतने मुखर क्यों हैं? बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री नीतीश कुमार ने जातिगत जनगणना का समर्थन करते हुए कहा कि ये समाज बांटने वाला काम नहीं बल्कि समाज को एकजुट करने में मददगार है। पिछले कुछ दिनों की चर्चा करें तो नीतीश कुमार उन मुद्दों पर अपनी राय रखते हैं जिसपर […]
What does one do when the chief guest of the event of the year just doesn’t turn up on time? What if you get the news that the that person will probably be half an hour late? And what if that half hour stretches on to become two full hours? That’s not something that you’re […]
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 […]
On Christmas Day, a dastardly act of vandalism took place in Bihar’s capital city. The Quila House Museum, probably the largest privately owned collection of artifacts and cultural treasures in the state, was broken into by a weapon wielding mob, that rampaged through the grounds and smashed priceless figurines and heirlooms. It’s surprising that this […]
Patna: From tonight, Railway Platform tickets have been hiked 400 percent from Rs 10 to rs 50, in an effort to discourage crowding at railway stations. The hike will be ‘temporary’, until the corona-virus situation clears. The East Central Railway Zone headquartered at Hajipur in the state, has hiked price of platform tickets from Rs […]
बिहार राज्य में करोना वाइरस के संक्रमण को रोकने के लिए सभी जुटे हुए है। पटना और भागलपुर शहर में कोरोना वायरस के संक्रमण से निपटने के लिए नगर निगम प्रशासन ने एक्शन प्लान तैयार किया। मुजफ़र्पूर में जेल के कैदी करोना वाइरस से बचाव के लिए फ़ेस मास्क तैयार कर रहे हैं। ये मास्क […]
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 […]
Even though Bihar hasn’t reported a single case of confirmed COVID-19 infection, Bihar is under the British era ‘Epidemic Act’. So now, government health officials can storm into your house and take you for forcible screening. Any geographical area can be sealed off and isolated. You can be punished for hiding symptoms. You can be […]
The ongoing corona virus scare and the new measures of closing schools, parks, and banning gatherings will only deepen Bodh Gaya’s economic problems. The Buddhist tourist circuit in Bihar is the latest victim of the deadly novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to the magazine Down to Earth. The Air India international weekly flight from Yangon […]
