Patna: Mahadalit leader and former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi quit the NDA alliance and declared his support to the RJD-Congress Alliance. Meanwhile, four Congress MLCs (legislative council members) , including former state Congress chief Ashok Choudhary, joined the Nitish Kumar led JDU, which is part of the NDA alliance. Jitan manjhi, the Hindustani Awam […]
Patna: Ciggy Puffers will have poorie faces from now on in Bihar. Cigarette sellers have been stopped from selling ‘loose sticks’ ( single Cigarettes ). The health department has banned sale of loose cigarettes making Bihar the 12th state in the country to bring such a ban into effect after Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, […]
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 […]
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: Arrests have started. Bihar gets serious about tackling underage marriages. A middle-aged man was arrested from Samastipur district on Thursday on the charge of marrying a minor girl. A day earlier, a Madhubani court sent the parents of another minor girl to jail on the charge of violating provisions of the Child Marriage Restraint […]
Patna: Dalit ire against ‘police atrocities’ following an incident of ‘stone pelting’ at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s convoy is increasing. Local media reports say that NDA partner Jitan Ram Manjhi has used strong words against the state government for atrocities on Dalits by police and administration at Nandan village in Buxar district in the […]
It was a pure joy for some 700 children and accompanying adults at the VIVA Nirmal Anand winter celebration and Christmas party for children at risk. And what gave contributed to the joy was the love and generosity of the first year Media undergraduates from St Xavier’s College, Patna. These students organised and ran a […]
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 […]
Patna, Bihar: The Kolhua archaeological site in Muzaffarpur district joins 27 other archeological sites across the country that will be developed with “world class facilities” for tourists by next year. “Twenty-seven sites have been selected at the national level and directions given to develop them with world-class facilities within a year,” Patna circle superintending archaeologist […]
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 […]
