Patna: Visitors to Golghar will no longer be allowed to climb to the top. The Golghar is a granary built by the British in 1786 which has become a symbol of the Bihar capital. The Bihar government has prohibited people from climbing the 142 steps to the top of the dome – a height of […]
Patna: Will Bihar’s only College of Arts and Crafts really begin offering post graduate courses? Students are sceptical, but the word is, wait and see. Earlier this week, vice-chancellor Rash Bihari Prasad Singh announced that Patna University has decided to open a Faculty of Fine Arts. He said this at the 79th foundation day function […]
So we have seen the activists and do-gooders beating their forlorn breasts over what they term ‘child-marriage’ and the ‘evils of dowry’ for over 70 decades now. The political establishment in newly independent India, in its endeavours to be perceived as a modern, forward-looking , tech-embracing nation by the dominant and developed countries of Northern […]
New Delhi. 18 January 2018: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Sushil Kumar Modi who also heads the GST Network panel said that GST was a big and bold tax-related reform to unify the country into a single market. He was delivering his speech in the 25th meeting of the GST council held today […]
Patna (Bihar): Here’s a crime round up in a state where the Chief Minister is more interested in having cops ’round up’ people suspected of having the ‘forbidden swig of liquor’! At least six daring murders in the past 24 hours were reported from across Bihar, where the police are preoccupied with devising newer measures […]
On 29th November Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU) had its 4th annual convocation in THE Ashok Convention hall near Gandhi Maidan (field). All the students were dressed in white dress with red turban and scroll. They looked very happy as it was the day which marked that they had completed the course. In this Convocation 14 […]
Patna: A woman has petitioned the Buxar superintendent of police (SP) to protect her minor son from allegedly being sexually harassed by a woman teacher, says a report in a local daily. The woman submitted a petition to the Buxar SP Rajesh Kumar on Tuesday, requesting him to initiate action against a woman teacher, who […]
Patna/Bhagalpur: As the investigation on the ‘Toilet Scam’, locally known as the ‘Srijan scam’ hots up, the CBI filed chargesheets in two more cases. The scam involved fraudulent transfer of over Rs 1,000 crore from the accounts of the Bhagalpur district administration to those of Srijan Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti Limited, an NGO based in […]
The official death toll of the devastating floods in Bihar stands at around 514 in 19 out of 38 districts. The real figures are far more. Patna Jesuit Social Action initiative is working with some of the most affected areas in North Bihar. An update: West Champaran district bordering Nepal has been hit badly. Continuous torrential […]
The students of Aryanbhatt University, who completed their even semester examinations recently, may have to wait a while before the results come their way: the reason being that for over a week, the section of Mithapur road was so badly water-logged and flooded, that it was almost impossible for examiners and evaluators to reach the […]
The Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola is an important spiritual milestone each year for Jesuit Schools and Ignatian organisations alike. As we (Jesuits, friends and collaborators ) celebrate the Feast Day of St. Ignatius of Loyola on July 31st, we have a chance to pause and reflect on all the efforts for social justice […]
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 […]
