PATNA: While local news channels are occupied with political news, Bihar braces itself for the corona virus challenge .’Transit points’ in districts near the Nepal border are being monitored. As many as 108 passengers, who returned from coronavirus-affected countries after January 15 have been placed under home quarantine till date, says an official press release. […]
पटना : अगले महिना, यानि 1 अप्रैल को, नए वित्तीय वर्ष 2020-21 के पहले दिन से बिहार राज्य के ट्रेजरी पेपरलेस हो जाएगा। राज्य सरकार ने नया ट्रेजरी कोड लागू करने का निर्णय लिया है। नई व्यवस्था में सामान्यतः ट्रेजरी में बिल जमा नहीं होगा। सभी बिल और प्रक्रियाएं ऑनलाइन होगी। उम्मीद है कि इससे […]
PATNA: “Gandhi’s India” – the reference is to the ‘Mahatma’ and not ‘The Family’ – was the theme of the evening as St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology (SXCMT) celebrated its annual day zest here on Sunday, March1, 2020. At the annual occasion of celebration, felicitation, and festivity, students put up a variety […]
As one documentary film maker put it ,”The only way to control plastic is to ban it’, and the MP High Court has done just that. In Madhya Pradesh, you will no longer send your child to school with a plastic lunch box, so the court has ordered. The Madhya Pradesh High Court has passed […]
Are the West Bengal Police stalling to protect Human traffickers? Trafficking survivors in 24 Parganas think so. Unsatisfied and disappointed with the pace of investigation by the local police station, trafficking survivors in West Bengal are seeking a probe by Anti Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) to ensure that the traffickers are arrested. In February 2020, […]
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 […]
A day before the ‘mammoth’ rally against NRC was to take place, the Bihar Assembly passed a resolution against the NRC implementation. Bihar is the first NDA-ruled state to pass a resolution against the NRC and for the 2010 form of NPR, opening a window for the Centre to make a retreat on these issues, […]
Stressed Christian cemeteries, with shrinking space and crowding of graves can take a leaf out of the Aizawl book. Aizawl’s Chaltlang neighbourhood inaugurated its first ‘modern multi-storey concrete cemetery’, the first of its kind in Mizoram to cope with the rising graveyard crisis. The five-storey cemetery which houses at least 163 crypts (ready-made tombs) was […]
A Muslim maulvi (cleric) who made headlines by officiating at the funeral for a sex worker in Bangladesh has faced a backlash from local Muslims. About a fortnight ago, Golam Mostafa, an imam at Daulatdia Railway Station Mosque in Rajbari district, broke a social taboo to perform final rites for Hamida Begum, a sex worker […]
Bihar Health minister Mangal Pandey stated that 1,75 crore people from Bihar use chew some form of tobacco, despite the Bihar government’s steps to discourage the practice. Speaking at a national consultation on ‘Effective Implementation of Measures for Control of Smokeless Tobacco Use in India’ jointly organised by the health department and the National Institute […]
The Chinese Ambassador, Sun Weidong, has recently praised India’s ‘kindness’ towards China in these troubled times. As social media circulates fake and half-true images of China and the coronavirus outbreak, both China and the UN agencies are understandably tense. China reiterated rumours about COVID-19 or cornavirus were terrible and had the potential to stigmatise Chinese […]
Voices of the people: how to deal with overcrowding on trains? Please write your comments and add to the debate- Editor In every long distance train reservation ticket holder passengers suffer from entry and forcible occupation of reserved seats at various locations and stages of long journey, by “Daily Passengers” commuting between their homes and […]
