While listening to the youth and children is an important step towards ensuring they stay away from substance abuse, changing lifestyles, increasing isolation due to social media and cell phones, as well as hastily imposed prohibition are among the reasons of an increased intake of narcotics by teenagers in Bihar. Legislation and laws also have […]
Fish is an important source of protein as well as nutrients. City fish lovers should now beware. There is alarming news for you. Imported fish from other states may contain a dangerous chemical called formalin. Cities like New Delhi, Nagaland, Kerala, Tripura, and Punjab are also affected by fish adulterated with formalin. There have been several […]
Patna: Reservations appeared to be the main focus of ‘Save Constitution, Save Country Rally’, held today (June 24) at the historic Gandhi Maidan at Patna. Hundreds of people from different regions of Bihar — men, women, and college students – gathered despite the heavy rain. the crowd was full of energy and kept shouting the […]
The news of girls being raped, physically assaulted, and being forced in the business of prostitution at Muzaffarpur shelter home left everybody stunned. The people who were given the responsibility to protect the orphan and abandoned girls were accused of sexually harassing them. This shelter home is run by NGO “seva sankalp evm vikas samiti” […]
The Ghats of Buxar witness huge crowd of people every day. People worship, bath even drink the water of Ganga with the faith that it’s sacred. But rotten vegetables, animal corpses, sewage and other garbage are being dumped in the river every day. Recently human corpses were seen floating on the Ram Rekha Ghat of Buxar. […]
Patna: It’s been almost 18 years! The Bihar cricket team is ‘likely’ to participate in the Ranji Trophy slated to be held in October this year. Bihar hasn’t participated in cricket tournaments at the national level since the year 2000, when the BCCI de-affiliated the Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) as its full member and conferred […]
When this girl won a medal in a football game, she opened up a whole new field for her classmates. How? Read on! Fourteen year old Anshu Singh from Gaunpura viilage in Phulwarisarif , about 27 kilometres from Patna, is a ninth grader in Sada Public School, Phulwarisarif. Her father, Neeraj Kumar Singh, is better […]
In ‘Backward’ Bihar, where entire village communities frown on women playing sports, a labourer buys a plastic ball for his daughter to pursue her football dreams… “My father is my very first coach. When I was small, he bought a plastic ball, and he taught me to kick it around,” says Priti Kunari, a feisty […]
Guwahati: Shocked and shaken by the killing and hate being spread by false news and rumours, the students in Assam have woken up. They have begun a social media movement against ‘fake news’. Students of Guwahati University have launched a “social media movement” to create awareness among small groups about the consequences of “rumour mongering” […]
On Father’s Day, we bring you from a small village in the state of Bihar, an aspiring girl footballer’s story about her Dad the Superhero … her dad who may be a poor man, but with the heart to say, ‘my child, keep on dreaming’. Fourteen year old Moni Kumari is a girl who just […]
While Christano Ronaldo may be the flavour of the season as the Fifa World Cup unfolds, let me tell you about another sprightly little football player. No, she won’t make it to Russia this year, but that’s not gonna stop her from fighting her own battle to stay in the beautiful game in her small […]
St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology (Patna) played host to some 30 spirited teenage girls who played soccer on the football field for a ‘Football Match for Women’s Equality’. These girls were here for one purpose, to say ‘Look here everybody, we can!’ On the occasion of the first day of the FIFA World […]
