The earth is our teacher, and every winter, Taru Mitra demonstrates just that through the noisy, joyous organic rice harvesting festival. The fields attached to the Taru Mitra bio-reserve in Patna were swarming with students, teachers, a group of transgender friends, and even the Bihar Minister for Agriculture. They all had sickles in their hands […]
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 […]
Patna (Bihar) :The Patna police special investigation team (SIT), who are investigating the ‘multi-crore toilet construction scam’ arrested a senior official of State Bank of India from Buxar on November 9, for his connivance with the scamsters. The members of the SIT visited Buxar and took Shiv Shankar Jha, deputy manager of the bank, into […]
Are the top Maoist leaders leading ‘double lives’? A report prepared by the police seems to say that. It says that their children go to posh schools while their relatives study medicine and buy flats in posh communities. Dreaded Maoists Vijay Yadav, alias Sandeep, and Praduman Sharma who operate in Jharkhand-Bihar, have unaccounted for properties worth […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bihar has, instead of cementing the bond between Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (United), has caused uneasiness––if not tension––in the relationship between the two ruling coalition partners in the state, says veteran journalist Soroor Ahmed in a recent article. There was hardly any poster, hoarding and advertisement of chief minister […]
Sasaram (Bihar): Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s tall claims of ‘Sushashan’ or good governance have fallen apart in Rohtas district. Violence, kidnapping, and extortion have become commonplace, say local citizens. Just yesterday (24 October), a mob lynched four ‘suspected extortionists’ who were trying to escape after shooting at and critically injuring a businessman in Vikramganj (Rohtas […]
Police action on women protesting sexual harassment of a female student at India’s premier Banaras Hindu University has led to a national struggle to end gender discrimination. In Patna, Bihar a group of citizens have started Aawazein, which has begun a series of interventions and activities to sensitize the students and teaching community about gender […]
The Jungle Raj has never left Bihar, and land mafia calls the shots. In a horrific three hours, adults and children were terrorized as a section of the ‘public’ attacked a demolition team and burnt down the bulldozers. Eyewitness report from Deedar and Yogesh Residents of Krishna Nagar in Digha-Rajiv Nagar area went berserk when […]
Floods that have hit 20 of Bihar’s 38 districts and killed 253 people so far, are threatening the state capital Patna , as the water in the Ganges is rising steadily. People have become worried, the price of food grains are on the rise. The river was 20 cm below the danger level of 48.6 […]
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 […]
Patna: The Patna High Court on Monday (July 31), declined to intervene in the matter of the validity of Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar’s new coalition government, and dismissed two petitions challenging the formation of the JD(U)-BJP combine. It said no intervention of the court was required after floor test in the state Assembly. The […]
PATNA: Less than a day after resigning as Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar is set to take the oath at 10am on Thursday as the head of a new Bihar government that will include BJP and its allies. After meeting governor Keshari Nath Tripathi late on Wednesday, Kumar, accompanied by senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi […]
