What does one do when the chief guest of the event of the year just doesn’t turn up on time? What if you get the news that the that person will probably be half an hour late? And what if that half hour stretches on to become two full hours? That’s not something that you’re […]
It was a sweltering day in May, and Patna city was in the throes of the second wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Sister Dorothy Fernandez PBVM , the only Presentation sister in the state of Bihar, was knocking at the doors of the home for the destitute women in Padre ki Haveli. The home is […]
On Christmas Day, a dastardly act of vandalism took place in Bihar’s capital city. The Quila House Museum, probably the largest privately owned collection of artifacts and cultural treasures in the state, was broken into by a weapon wielding mob, that rampaged through the grounds and smashed priceless figurines and heirlooms. It’s surprising that this […]
Patna: From tonight, Railway Platform tickets have been hiked 400 percent from Rs 10 to rs 50, in an effort to discourage crowding at railway stations. The hike will be ‘temporary’, until the corona-virus situation clears. The East Central Railway Zone headquartered at Hajipur in the state, has hiked price of platform tickets from Rs […]
बिहार राज्य में करोना वाइरस के संक्रमण को रोकने के लिए सभी जुटे हुए है। पटना और भागलपुर शहर में कोरोना वायरस के संक्रमण से निपटने के लिए नगर निगम प्रशासन ने एक्शन प्लान तैयार किया। मुजफ़र्पूर में जेल के कैदी करोना वाइरस से बचाव के लिए फ़ेस मास्क तैयार कर रहे हैं। ये मास्क […]
Muzaffarpur: Bihar seems to be pulling out all the stops to deal with any possible outbreak of the COVID-19. Prisoners in the central jail in Muzaffarpur are working overtime to produce face- masks that help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The masks will be used for protection to fellow inmates and prison staff, and also […]
Even though Bihar hasn’t reported a single case of confirmed COVID-19 infection, Bihar is under the British era ‘Epidemic Act’. So now, government health officials can storm into your house and take you for forcible screening. Any geographical area can be sealed off and isolated. You can be punished for hiding symptoms. You can be […]
The ongoing corona virus scare and the new measures of closing schools, parks, and banning gatherings will only deepen Bodh Gaya’s economic problems. The Buddhist tourist circuit in Bihar is the latest victim of the deadly novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to the magazine Down to Earth. The Air India international weekly flight from Yangon […]
United Christian Forum has postponed the demonstration in solidarity with the Constitution and against the imposition of the provisions of the amended CAA, NRC and NPR which was to be held on Saturday evening (March 14). This was in response to the order of the Bihar Government shutting down public places as a precaution against […]
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. […]
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, […]
