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BJP to press CM to answer questions in Assembly
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will not accept answers from other ministers to queries directed at departments the chief minister, Nitish Kumar, is holding in the coming Winter Session of the state Assembly. |
Organic Harvest Festival at Tarumitra
Patna. 5 Dec: Marking the end of the month long harvesting of the Organic Rice, Tarumitra students from five large schools gathered to celebrate a Threshing Festival in Digha. Cultivating Organic rice varieties of Mirchaiya, Manipuri and Jhilli for the second consecutive year |
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| Life-term to giant-killer ex-RJD MP Patna,(BiharTimes): The life term given to former MP, Vijay Krishna, his son, Chanakya Singh alias Guddu, and two of his close associates Umesh and Gagan in Satyendra Kumar Singh murder case is a classic case of intra-Janata Dal (United) quarrel, which had a gory end. |
Bihar's Rajgir town declared polythene-free zone
Patna, Dec 4 (IANS) Rajgir, a Buddhist pilgrim town and a tourist destination in Bihar, has been declared a polythene-free zone after visitors complained of rampant littering and a dirty environment. |
BJP rally near Jharkhand village of Patna blast accused?
Ranchi, Dec 4 (IANS) The Jharkhand unit of the BJP Wednesday is planning to hold a rally by the party's prime minister candidate Narendra Modi Dec 29 at a ground in Ranchi close to the village from which two accused in the Patna blasts hail. |
Nitish blasts Narendra Modi for raising Article 370, reiterates JD(U)’s stand
Patna,(BiharTimes): Reiterating his party’s stand on Article 370 Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday strongly criticized BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, and accused him and the saffron party of trying to divide the country over “well-accepted special status,” of Jammu and Kashmir. |
Asaram Bapu's son arrested with four accomplices
Chandigarh, Dec 4 (IANS) On the run for the past 58 days, Narayan Sai, son of spiritual guru Asaram Bapu who has been arrested on charges of sexual assault, was arrested alongwith his four accomplices Wednesday, police sources said here. |
Kidnapping ganglord joins Janata Dal(U)Patna,(BiharTimes): Keeping up with the trend notorious don Rakesh Kumar alias Chunnu Thakur, the prime accused in the infamous Kislay Kaushal kidnapping case joined the Janata Dal (United) with much
fanfare on Sunday. |
Bihar govt attaches property of 21 MaoistsPatna,(BiharTimes): The Bihar government has attached the property of 21 Maoists under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Most of these properties were attached in the Maoist-affected Aurangabad district, where the Naxals killed seven former Ranvir Sena men in a landmine explosion in Obra block a few weeks back |
Actor Rajpal Yadav sent to 10 days' judicial custody New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Tuesday sent Bollywood actor Rajpal Yadav to 10 days' judicial custody for making misleading statements in court in a recovery suit of Rs.5 crore filed against him and his wife by a Delhi entrepreneur. |
Voting begins for Delhi assembly New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) Voting began at 8 a.m. Wednesday to decide the fate of 810 candidates contesting for the 70-member Delhi assembly in what is being seen as a largely triangular contest between the ruling Congress, opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and new entrant Aam Aadmi Party. |
Bihar planning to distribute tablets to three crore BPL girls, women
Patna,(BiharTimes): In what many may interprete as an election-eve exercise the Bihar government on Monday said it was considering a plan to distribute tablets to three crore girls and women living below poverty line. The aim of this massive programme is to educate them to get literate. |
NTPC Barh to start power generation from January
Patna,(BiharTimes): The first Unit of Stage-II of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Barh appears all set to start commercial generation by next month as state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, a power equipment firm, commissioned its first 660-MW super critical thermal unit on Saturday night. Out of 660MW, Bihar, as per the latest arrangement with the Centre, will get 330 MW. |
Nitish’s statement on killings stirs hornet’s nest Patna,(BiharTimes): “Bhai yah to hoga, murder ke peeche koi motive hota hai.”(This will take place. There is always a motive behind the murder). This statement of Nitish Kumar made at the Press conference on Monday stirred the hornet’s nest with the BJP leaders questioning as to how a chief minister of the state can say so. |
“Micro, Small and Medium enterprises needs more attention”
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), which, in spite of being universally regarded as the engine of economic growth, and key instruments for promoting equitable development and employment generation, are facing the problem of proper funding from banks. |
Bihar entrepreneur brings International Monastery from USA to India
Patna,(BiharTimes)::Siddhant Vats, a young leading entrepreneur who is a big role model for many young minds across the world brings the Buddhist WAT LAO INTERNATIONAL MONASTERY from USA to BIHAR. Siddhant is the Co-Founder & CMO of Androidly Systems and has been credited to make the World’s First Android Smartwatch along with Apurva Sukant. |
Migrants not a liability for Delhi: Nitish Patna,(BiharTimes): Campaigning essentially in Bihari concentrated
Assembly constituencies for the second day on Sunday Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar highlighted the sharp contrast in two Delhis––one meant
for rich and affluent and other for poor and downtrodden. |
JD(U) accuses Sushil Modi of siding with shopkeepers
Patna,(BiharTimes): Even as shopkeepers of Exhibition Road, Station
Road, New Dak Bungalow Road, Raja Market etc downed their shutters for
the third consecutive day on Sunday the Janata Dal (United) alleged
that the tax collection was less in non-corporate sector during Sushil
Kumar Modi’s tenure as deputy chief minister-cum-finance minister. |
Nitish inaugurates school, ITI, hospital in ancestral village
Patna,(BiharTimes): On the occasion of the death anniversary of his
father, Kaviraj Ram Lakhan Singh, chief minister Nitish Kumar on
Friday inaugurated projects worth Rs 8.95 crore to his ancestral
village Kalyanbigaha in Harnaut block of Nalanda district. |
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NIA to seize IM operative Tahseen Akhtar's property
Patna, Dec 1 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is set to seize the property of alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Tahseen Akhtar alias Monu, accused of involvement in bomb blasts, after he failed to surrender within the stipulated deadline, police said Sunday. |
Maoists attack train in Bihar, three killed
Patna, (BiharTimes) Three Government Railway Police personnel were killed and two seriously injured in an attack on an intercity train at Jamalpur in Munger district of Bihar Saturday. |
Nine Eden Transport buses seized by district transport office
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Patna district transport office seized nine
buses of Eden Transport Private Limited on Friday for its failure to
pay royalty to Bihar State Road Transport Corporation (BSRTC).
Incidentally, the buses were flagged off by none else but the chief
minister Nitish Kumar a couple of years back.
The vehicles were attached on the directive of the court of Patna
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| Hoping to teach medicine without MBBS degree Patna, Nov 30 (IANS) Authorities at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the Bihar capital are shocked that over 90 percent of applicants for teachers' posts at the institute did not have the mandatory MBBS degree, an official said Saturday. |
Sand crisis disrupts construction work in Jharkhand
Ranchi, Nov 30 (IANS) Construction work on projects worth thousands of crores of rupees in Jharkhand has been affected by a sand crisis caused by the on-again, off-again auction policy, industry insiders say. |
SC panel names judge accused of sexual harassment
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) A three-member panel that probed the charge of sexual harassment of a young lawyer by a Supreme Court judge has submitted its report, identifying the judge as A.K. Ganguly, court sources said Friday. |
SC blow to state govt on PMC Commissioner’s transfer
Patna,(BiharTimes): The division bench of A K Patnaik and Kurien Joseph of the Supreme Court recently refused to interfere in the Patna High Court’s order restraining the state government from transferring the Commissioner of Patna Municipal Corporation, Kuldeep Narayan. |
IIT-Delhi to help decongest traffic on Patna’s Bailey Road
Patna,(BiharTimes): A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on
Thursday between the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer
(FITT) of IIT-Delhi and the Bihar State Bridge Development Corporation
(BSBDC) for use of high speed traffic models in Patna to decongest the
heavy vehicular density in Patna’s Bailey Road. |
Bodh Gaya temple dome inlaid with gold
Patna, Nov 28 (IANS) The dome of Bodh Gaya's 1,500-year-old Mahabodhi temple, Buddhism's holiest shrine, has been inlaid with nearly 300 kg gold donated by devotees from Thailand -- giving the shrine a new look. |
Minor boy arrested in Bihar with fake notes
Patna, Nov 29 (IANS) A minor boy was arrested with fake currency notes worth Rs.1.06 lakh in Bihar's East Champaran district. It is for the first time that a child has been caught with fake notes, officials said Friday. |
| Bihar RTI activist told to cough up Rs.1.34 crore Patna, Nov 28 (IANS) Shiv Prakash Rai, who has been using the Right to Information to access government documents for scrutiny, was shocked when officials in Bihar told him that he would have to cough up Rs.1.34 crore to inspect documents on land registration. |
CM launches tele-medicine service in Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday launched tele-medicine service at Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) and in 22 districts and 82 primary health centres of Bihar. |
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Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury resigns
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury resigned early Thursday, saying she did "not want questions raised about my integrity to tarnish the image of Tehelka", and denied trying to hush up the case of sexual assault in which magazine founder-editor Tarun Tejpal is the accused. |
Two dozens injured as road overbridge caved in near Muzaffarpur station
Patna,(BiharTimes): Muzaffarpur railway station escaped a major accident on Wednesday when a portion of road overbridge just about 100 metres from the platform caved in and fell on a goods train underneath badly damaging about half a dozen carriages. About two dozen people, some of them seriously, were reported to have been injured in the incident. |
Don't treat employees as guinea pigs while bifurcating states: SC
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court has said that during the bifurcation of states it was incumbent upon the state and central governments to address issues relating to state government and PSU employees as they could not be treated as guinea pigs and left high and dry for no fault of theirs. |
Mystery disease claims 12 lives in Bihar Patna, Nov 27 (IANS) A mysterious disease has left 12 people, including three women, dead in Bihar's East Champaran district in the past four days, officials said Wednesday. |
Girls harassed on Patna train, 5 GRP men suspended
Patna, Nov 26 (IANS) Five officials of the Government Railway Police were suspended late Monday for not helping a group of 93 school girls who were harassed by some youths on a train they boarded here. |
Talwars get life term for killing daughter, servant
Ghaziabad, Nov 26 (IANS) A day after they were held guilty, a special CBI court Tuesday sentenced dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar to life imprisonment for killing their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj over five years ago. |
Cabinet expansion at right time: Nitish Patna,(BiharTimes): The chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Monday that the cabinet expansion would come at the “right time and of course with fresh responsibilities.” |
Nitish concentrates on post-June 16 achievements in his eighth report card Patna,(BiharTimes): While presenting his report card to mark the
completion of eight years in the office chief minister Nitish Kumar on
Monday took extra care to highlight the achievements made by his
government in the last six months––especially after the June 16 split
with the Bharatiya Janata Party. |
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Supreme Court asks CBI to speed up Navruna missing case Patna,(BiharTimes): A bench of Justice R M Lodha and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh of the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to expeditiously probe into the mysterious disappearance of 12-year-old girl Navruna Chakravarty from her home in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar on the night of September 18 last year. |
Giriraj says NaMo’s version of Bihar history is right, not Nitish’s Patna,(BiharTimes): Almost a month after Narendra Modi’s Hunkar Rally speech and its rebuttal by the Bihar chief minister two days later the former animal husbandry minister and BJP leader, Giriraj Singh, said whatever his party’s prime ministerial candidate had said about the ancient Bihar was right and can be corroborated by books and other reference materials. |
Indian courts settle over 35 lakh cases in a single day
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) A National Lok Adalat, held simultaneously in the Supreme Court and courts across the country, Saturday settled over 35 lakh of the 39 lakh pending cases concerning accident claims, matrimonial disputes, dud cheques and traffic fines, among others. |
World record holder Prithvi Shaw has Bihar connection
Patna,(BiharTimes): School-boy Prithvi Shaw, who recently scored
record-breaking 546 runs in the Harris Shield in Mumbai, has a strong
connection with Bihar. His father originally hails from Rohtas
district of the state and he was initially taken to the UK by Dr Samir
Pathak, a surgeon whose family hails from Bihar. |
Aarushi murder: Talwars held guilty
Ghaziabad, Nov 25 (IANS) Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were Monday held guilty of the murder of their teenaged daughter and domestic help in May 2008. The couple insisted that they were innocent. |
Nitish Kumar may address Delhi voters
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar is likely to address election meetings to mobilise support for his party in poll-bound Delhi. |
Lalu Prasad moves apex court for bail
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking bail in the multi-crore fodder scam case in which he has been sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment. |
BJP leader, workers join JD(U)
Patna,(BiharTimes): Following allegations by the BJP that Janata Dal(United) is only inducting into its fold men of questionable past the latter has something to offer. |
Sushil Modi accuses Nitish of harassing PMC Commissioner
Patna,(BiharTimes): Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi charged the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with targeting Commissioner of Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) Kuldip Narayan, who has launched a campaign against illegal multi-storey buildings in Patna. |
Tejpal likely to be arrested, victim alleges pressure
New Delhi/Panaji, Nov 23 (IANS) The arrest of Tarun Tejpal, the 50-year-old founder of Tehelka news magazine who is accused of sexually assaulting an employee, seemed imminent, Delhi Police sources indicated Saturday, even as the victim claimed that she was being pressurised by people close to him. |
Maoists now contract killers, say Jharkhand Police
Ranchi, Nov 24 (IANS) It's not news that Maoist guerrillas have been killing people to extract levies in Jharkhand. But now, police say they have evidence that Maoists in the state are indulging in contract killing.
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The making of the Janata Dal (Underworld) in Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): Notorious outlaw and once known as Terror of
Champaran region, Bablu Dev, on Friday joined the Janata Dal (United)
in the presence of the state party chief, Vashist Narayan Singh and
water resources minister, Vijay Chaudhary. Bablu joined the party only
two days after Shah Alam ‘Shabbu’, a close associate of former RJD MP
and strongman, Mohammad Shahabuddin, came into the party fold on
Wednesday. |
SC notice on CBI's plea challenging Pappu Yadav's acquittal
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav on a petition by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging his acquittal by the Patna High Court in the Ajit Sarkar murder case. |
Bihar will have toilets-for-all: Chief Minister
Patna, Nov 23 (IANS) Re-affirming his commitment of toilets-for-all, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday said that open defecation is an affront to human dignity and his government will ensure that this problem is addressed in an urgent manner. |
Mobile technology to boost rural health services New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) To upgrade health services in rural areas, an initiative unveiled Friday will use mobile phones to offer tips on maternal and child health, the audience of a BBC communication conclave in the national capital was informed. |
Delhi High Court notice to Raj Thackeray
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on a plea challenging his move seeking quashing of complaints registered against him for alleged hate speeches against people of Bihar. |
| Bihar gets ATS, after Bodh Gaya, Patna blasts Patna, Nov 22 (IANS) After serial bomb blasts in Patna and Bodh Gaya, Bihar is set to have its own Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the state government has appointed its first inspector general (IG), officials said Friday. |
| Bihar ADM faces charges for sodomising minor Patna, Nov 22 (IANS) A case has been lodged against a Bihar official for allegedly sodomising a minor boy of a reform home in Purnea district and authorities have started investigating the case, officials said Friday. |
Goa police may probe Tehelka molestation case
New Delhi/Panaji, Nov 21 (IANS) Pressure mounted Thursday for action against Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal for allegedly molesting a woman journalist in a five-star hotel as the Goa government and the National Commission for Women (NCW) indicated they could act in the case. |
Bihar Police lodges FIR against Indian Mujahideen
Patna, Nov 21 (IANS) An FIR was lodged against the Indian Mujahideen organisation and its suspected operatives Thursday by the Bihar Police in connection with the serial bomb blasts in the state's capital, police said. |
IM drawing sustenance from across border, says Shinde
New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Indian Mujahideen (IM) draws its "motivation and sustenance from inimical forces" in Pakistan, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Thursday and added that the outfit was responsible for major terror attacks in the country this year. |
State govt forms Bihar Urban Transport Services
Patna,(BiharTimes): The state cabinet on Tuesday finally formed Bihar
Urban Transport Services Ltd for running city buses in the state under
centrally sponsored Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
(JNNURM). |
Documentary on George Orwell being shot in Bihar
Patna, Nov 20 (IANS) Shooting of the first documentary film on legendary British author George Orwell began at his birthplace in Motihari town of Bihar Wednesday, the head of a committee dedicated to the commemoration of the author said. |
Silver coins found in Purnea without anyone dreaming about it
Patna,(BiharTimes): Unlike Unnao in UP where Archaeological Survey of India is reportedly excavating for gold after a saint dreamt about it, silver coins of Mughal period worth lakhs of rupees were recovered from old city area of Purnea when the digging was going on for the construction of a temple on Monday. |
But in Bihar BJP accuses Nitish of phone tapping
Patna,(BiharTimes): When the BJP’s Gujarat government is under fire on the charge of snooping former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi has accused the chief minister Nitish Kumar of ordering the tapping of phones of the BJP leaders. |
Nitish Kumar, JD-U hit back at BJP, Modi
Patna, Nov 20 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his party Janata Dal-United Wednesday hit back at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including Narendra Modi, for deciding to honour two party legislators accused in the Muzaffarnagar communal riots, tapping of phones and carrying out sting operations to settle political scores. |
Congress top brass now tilting towards Lalu
Patna,(BiharTimes): An overwhelming number of Congress leaders as well as rank and file want the party to enter into an alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal rather than with the ruling Janata Dal (United), on the plea that the latter is rapidly losing its support base. |
Rabri Devi launches Parivartan Yatra with an eye on poor, minorities
Patna,(BiharTimes): While the killers of 58 Mahadalits and backwards got acquitted the leader of poor, Lalu Prasad, has been jailed on the framed up charge. With this as the central theme former chief minister Rabri Devi on Monday launched her Parivartan Yatra from Sherghatty sub-division of Gaya distict. |
51 taken ill after eating 'prasad' in Bihar Patna, Nov 19 (IANS) At least 51 people, including 20 children, were taken ill after eating 'prasad' (offering to the deity) at a village in Bihar's Arwal district, officials said. |
A Tendulkar temple in Bihar Patna, Nov 19 (IANS) A temple for Sachin Tendulkar came up Tuesday in a Bihar village with a life-sized statue of the cricketer. |
Sonepur fair becoming less attractive
Patna,(BiharTimes): Asia’s largest Sonepur cattle fair, which was inaugurated amidst tight security by revenue minister Ramai Ram on Saturday is gradually losing its attraction. |
Try to understand obscure things, Yash Pal asks scientists
Patna,(BiharTimes): Noted physicist, Yash Pal, said on Sunday that the real significance and meaning of life is in closely understanding obscure things which dot the vast universe. It is a fantastic adventure of mind to explore the world. The serious study of science provides this. |
Nitish wants Bharat Ratna for Karpoori ThakurPatna, Nov 18 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday sought Bharat Ratna, the country's highest honour, for veteran socialist leader and former chief minister Karpoori Thakur. |
JD-U leader questions Bharat Ratna to Tendulkar
Patna, Nov 18 (IANS) A Janata Dal-United MP Monday questioned awarding India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar instead of legendary hockey player Dhyan Chand. |
Terror suspects may flee to Nepal, Bihar Police told
Patna, Nov 18 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has told Bihar Police to look out for five terror suspects involved in Patna and Bodh Gaya bombings as they may be hiding in districts on the India-Nepal border and were likely to escape to Nepal, police Monday said. |
Bihar minister blames BJP for Patna blasts, calls Narendra Modi biggest terrorist
Patna,(BiharTimes): After some plainspeaking against his own leader Nitish Kumar, Bihar’s agriculture minister, Narendra Singh, once again trained his big gun on BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi by calling him the biggest terrorist in the country and that the BJP was involved with the blasts in Patna which took place on the occasion of Hunkar Rally on October 27. |
Parties agree on joint memorandum to 14th Finance Commission
Patna,(BiharTimes): In a significant departure the ever-quarrelling political parties of Bihar on Saturday agreed on joint memorandum to the 14th Finance Commission for greater devolution of funds totalling Rs 4,00,000 crore to the state for the 2015-2020. |
NIA reward to help arrest absconding blasts’ accused
Patna,(BiharTimes): The National Investigating Agency on Sunday announced a cash reward of Rs five to 10 lakh for any information leading to arrest of five absconding members of Indian Mujahideen including Tahseen Akhtar. They are accused in Bodh Gaya and Patna serial blasts cases |
Details of five wanted in Bihar blasts released
Patna, Nov 17 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Sunday released sketches and details of the five people wanted in connection with serial bomb blasts in Patna and Bodh Gaya in Bihar, and sought the help of the general public in nabbing them. |
Bihar Police want to quiz two for terror money link
Patna, Nov 17 (IANS) Bihar Police will Monday seek the custody of Ayesha Bano and her husband Zubair, arrested from Karnataka on charges of providing financial help to terror suspects, police said here Sunday. |
JD-U supports BJP demand for Bharat Ratna to Vajpayee
Patna, Nov 17 (IANS) In a surprise move, Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United Sunday supported the demand of the Bharatiya Janata Party to award the country's highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna, to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. |
Is JD(U) desperate to seek tie up with Congress?
Patna,(BiharTimes): Stressing the need for an alliance among the secular parties JD(U) general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP, Shivanand Tiwari, on Friday regretted that Congress is not doing enough in this direction. |
Ayesha, husband remanded to 14 days judicial custody
Patna,(BiharTimes): Ayesha Bano and her husband, Zubair, who were arrested from Mangalore in the Hawala transaction case were on Saturday remanded to 14 days judicial custody by Chief Judicial Magistrate of Lakhisarai, Amar Jyoti Shrivastava. |
Delay on the part of Congress worries Ram Vilas
Patna,(BiharTimes): Stating that the Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi and other leaders are busy in the Assembly elections in the four states Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Ram Vilas Paswan said on Friday he fails to understand why Congress is dithering to join the RJD-LJP alliance in Bihar. |
| 15 arrested in Bihar for salt shortage rumour Patna, Nov 15 (IANS) Fifteen people have been arrested in Bihar for allegedly spreading rumours of an acute shortage of salt in the state, causing prices to soar to Rs.150 a kg in a day, an official said Friday. |
Retired DSP under NIA scanner
Patna,(BiharTimes): A retired DSP of Bihar Police living in Jharkhand’s capital, Ranchi is under the National Investigation Agency (NIA) scanner. |
Salt prices soar high on scarcity rumours in three states
Kolkata/Patna/Shillong, Nov 15 (IANS) A pinch of salt suddenly acquired a big bite in parts of West Bengal, Bihar and Meghalaya, its prices sky-rocketing on rumours of scarcity. At least nine people have been arrested as authorities rubbished scarcity reports. |
Woman, husband from Karnataka arrested in Hawala funding case
Patna,(BiharTimes): Following the arrest of four persons––Gopal Kumar Goyal, Vikash Kumar, Ganesh Kumar and Pawan Prasad––in Lakhisarai on November 7 last a team of district police arrested 37-year old Ayesha Bano and her husband Zubair from their home at Mangalore in Karnataka. She was reportedly in touch with some people in Pakistan, who were in Hawala business. |
PM daughter's low profile impresses Bihar officials
Patna, Nov 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's daughter Upinder Kaur is visiting Bihar's historical Buddhist sites since Thursday but as a common tourist-cum-researcher, without any hype, and has left the state officials and police impressed. |
Salt sells at Rs.150 a kg, Bihar denies shortage
Patna, Nov 14 (IANS) Believe it or not, salt was selling at an exorbitant Rs.150 per kg in parts of Bihar amid rumours of an acute shortage of the essential ingredient of food. The state government rebutted the rumours Thursday. |
Sushil Modi disapproves Lekhi’s “insane” remark against Nitish
Patna,(BiharTimes): Pushed to the backfoot former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday disapproved his party spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi’s “insane” remark about chief minister Nitish Kumar. She had also said on Monday that Bihar “needs more mental institutes.” |
| Bihar BJP requests Modi to contest from state Patna, Nov 13 (IANS) The Bihar unit of the BJP Wednesday requested the party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to contest from a constituency in the state in the 2014 general elections. |
Model of world's largest Hindu temple unveiled in Bihar
Patna, Nov 13 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday unveiled a model of the world's largest Hindu temple with a towering height of 405 feet and a hall with a seating capacity of 20,000 people to be built in the state. |
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CPI-ML to submit one crore signatures
Patna, Nov 13 (IANS) The CPI-ML plans to submit a petition with 10 million signatures to President Pranab Mukherjee to protest against the acquittal of dozens of accused in caste massacres in Bihar. |
Bihar to strengthen planning board
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bihar cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to strengthen the Bihar state planning board on the pattern of Planning Commission of India. |
Sweet nothings: Discard myths to successfully manage diabetes
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Does consuming too much sugar cause diabetes? Is diabetes a disease of the elderly? India's diabetes population is dangerously on the rise and set to cross 100 million by 2030 and yet misconceptions and myths about this lifestyle disease that is linked to various other health complications are in abundance. |
Bihar gets licence to excavate Telhara, Chausa, Chechar
Patna,(BiharTimes): The state Directorate of Archaeology has recently received the licence from the Government of India to excavate three historic sites of Bihar: Telhara in Nalanda, Chausa in Buxar and Chechar in Vaishali. |
Nitish, Sushil Modi continue to trade ‘liar’ charge
Patna,(BiharTimes): The high-pitch war of words between Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and his former deputy Sushil Kumar Modi continued for the second day on Tuesday with the former asking the Bharatiya Janata Party to stop “jhoot ki kheti” (concocting lies) while his former deputy Sushil Modi called him the biggest liar. |
Modi to visit Bihar again
Patna, Nov 12 (IANS) BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will visit Bihar again in December-end or early January to address public meetings, state BJP president Mangal Pandey said Tuesday. |
Bihar police to bring terror suspect from Karnataka
Patna, Nov 12 (IANS) A Bihar Police team was Tuesday sent to Karnataka to bring Ayesha Bano, arrested by police there on charges of providing financial help to the terror suspects involved in the Patna serial blasts, officials said. |
SC seeks states' response on trials of influential people
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the states to respond to a plea seeking fast track investigation and trial in cases involving influential people, including politicians, which otherwise keep on dragging for decades. |
Bihar begins to set up ATS
Patna, Nov 11 (IANS) Bihar has begun the process of setting up an Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Monday. |
Shinde steps up Modi's security, denies SPG cover
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will be given additional NSG commandos in view of security risks to him, but the present rule does not permit giving him SPG security, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said here Monday. |
Stop lying, Nitish tells Modi
Patna, Nov 11 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday accused BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of lying left and right in his pursuit for power and asked him to stop telling lies. |
RJD asks Nitish to stop repeated visits of Narendra Modi to Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): The general secretary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Ram Kripal Yadav, said on Monday asked the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to stop the repeated trip to Bihar of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, as he has been indulging in the politics over dead bodies. |
Patna blasts: One more arrested from Dhanbad
Patna, Nov 11 (IANS) Following a tip off from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Bihar police have arrested a person, Raju Sao, from Jharkhand's Dhanbad district in connection with the Patna serial blasts, police said Monday. |
Maoists kill three in Bihar
Patna, Nov 11 (IANS) Maoists shot dead three people and seriously injured two in Bihar's Gaya district as they suspected them to be police informers, police Monday said. |
BJP leader challenges Nitish to contest LS poll from Nalanda
Patna,(BiharTimes): The leader of opposition in the Bihar Assembly, Nand Kishore Yadav, on Sunday surprised political observers as well as rivals when he openly challenged the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to contest the coming Lok Sabha election from his home turf, the Nalanda parliamentaryseat. |
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Bihar Police denies Rajnath’s claim on cancelling of Hunkar Rally
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Additional Director
General of Police (Headquarters) Ravindra Kumar on Sunday strongly refuted the BJP national president Rajnath Singh’s claim that officers of Bihar Police had requested party leaders to cancel the October 27 'Hunkar Rally' after the serial blasts at Patna railway station and in and around Gandhi Maidan. |
After blasts Bihar Police had asked me to cancel Hunkar Rally: Rajnath Singh
Patna,(BiharTimes): BJP President Rajnath Singh has said that after the serial blasts in Patna officials of Bihar Police had requested him and party’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi not to address the Hunkar Rally on October 27 but they decided to go ahead as cancelling the programme would have led to riots in Bihar. |
Phailin saved Ranchi from serial blasts
Ranchi, Nov 10 (IANS) The cyclone Phailin proved to be a boon for the Jharkhand state capital as it helped avert serial blasts during the Durga Puja festival, police sources said Sunday. |
Angry mob attacks police station in Bihar
Patna, Nov 10 (IANS) An angry mob attacked a police station in Bihar's Vaishali district Sunday after the body of a minor girl, suspected to have been raped and killed, was found, police said. |
Six detained in Bihar serial blasts case
Patna, Nov 9 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has detained six people and seized hundreds of bank passbooks, ATM cards and other documents in Bihar's Lakhisarai district in connection with the Patna serial blasts, police said Saturday. |
Bihar blasts: Four sent to jail
Patna, Nov 9 (IANS) Four of the six people detained by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Bihar's Lakhisarai district in connection with the Oct 27 Patna serial blasts, were sent to jail Saturday. |
Rabri Devi to send Chhath prasad to Lalu
Patna, Nov 9 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, who is currently in jail in connection with the multi-crore fodder scam, will receive Chhath prasad from his wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi soon. |
Luv Sinha might shoot in father's hometown Patna
Mumbai, Nov 9 (IANS) Here's a case of literally going back to one's roots! Actor Luv Sinha might get the chance to shoot in his actor-father Shatrughan Sinha's hometown Patna for an upcoming film directed by Umesh Shukla. |
Chhath festival ends peacefully in Bihar
Patna, Nov 9 (IANS) The four-day Chhath festival ended peacefully in Bihar Saturday morning with millions of people, mostly women, ignoring the morning chill and taking a dip in the river to offer prayers to the rising sun. |
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Centre approves two new cancer centres for Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): To help curb the cancer menace in Bihar the Centre has approved the establishment of State Cancer Institute in Patna and a Tertiary Cancer Care Centre (TCCC) in Bhagalpur. The projected cost of both the centres is Rs 165 crores. |
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Hullo, everyone,
Yes, I know, Bihar is crazy. But if you have to see it absolutely,
irreconcilably, irretrievably, irrevocably mad, this is the season for
it -- Chhath. |
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Modi attacks 'arrogant' Nitish, Congress 'shahzada'
Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh), Nov 7 (IANS) BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Thursday hit out at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and called him an "arrogant" man whose government appeared to be "happy" after the Patna blasts. |
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Gap between Modi's words and deeds: Bihar JD-U chief
Patna, Nov 7 (IANS) Hitting out at BJP's prime minister candidate Narendra Modi over an attack he earlier launched on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the state's ruling Janata Dal-United Thursday said Modi was a man of two faces and double standards.
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IM involvement almost confirmed, but no trace of human bomb: Abhayanand
Patna,(BiharTimes): Denying the media reports of the involvement of any human bomb the director general of Bihar Police, Abhayanand, said on Wednesday that the state police had formally handed over the investigation into serial blasts at Gandhi Maidan and Patna junction station on October 27 (Hunkar Rally day) to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). |
Bihar's Chhath festival draws the migrants back home
Patna, Nov 7 (IANS) Airports, railway stations and bus terminuses have been packed with milling crowds as hundreds of thousands of migrants from Bihar, who work all over the country and abroad, have returned to their homes in Bihar to celebrate and infuse "new life" to the four-day Chhath festival, the state's biggest community celebration. |
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The unsung victims of 2012 Chhath tragedy
This is the one criminal lapse which both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal (United) would like everyone to forget. Though the BJP is reminded 17 years later that Nitish Kumar and Shivanand Tiwari were also involved in the fodder scam ... |
Khaini', 'bidi' biggest killers in Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): The director of Mahavir Cancer Sansathan, Dr J K Singh, said here on Tuesday that about 33 per cent of cancer cases are curable if diagnosed at an early stage. |
Chhath begins as millions take a holy dip
Patna, Nov 6 (IANS) Millions of devotees, particularly women, took a holy dip in rivers, ponds and other water bodies in Bihar Wednesday as the four-day Chhath festival began amidst tight security. |
Gandhi Maidan thrown open a week after blasts
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Patna district administration on Sunday threw open Gandhi Maidan for the first time after October 27 serial blasts in which six people were killed and 83 sustained injuries. |
Lalu in jail, Rabri to miss him during Chhath
Patna, Nov 5 (IANS) With RJD chief Lalu Prasad in jail in connection with the multi-crore-rupee fodder scam, his wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi Tuesday said she will miss him while celebrating Chhath - the most popular annual Hindu festival of Bihar, starting Wednesday. |
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Nine bombs found in Ranchi student lodge
Ranchi, Nov 4 (IANS) National Investigation Agency (NIA) in collaboration with state police in the Jharkhand capital investigating Ranchi links into the Patna serial bomb blasts of Oct. 27 recovered nine live bombs and defused them. |
Family refuses to claim body of Patna terror suspect
Patna, Nov 3 (IANS) Three days after Ainul Ansari alias Tarique, a suspect in the serial bomb blasts in the Bihar capital, died at a hospital here due to injuries to his brain, his family has refused to claim the body for last rites, police said Sunday. |
Women protest outside Giriraj Singh’s house for his dehati aurat remarks
Patna,(BiharTimes): A group of women assembled outside the 15 Circular Road residence of former Bihar animal husbandry minister and BJP leader, Giriraj Singh, on Monday and strongly protested against his statement in which he equated Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar with dehati aurat (village woman). |
Patna terrorism suspect buried by Bihar Police
Patna, Nov 4 (IANS) Bihar Police Monday buried Ainul alias Tarique, a suspect in the serial bomb blasts in the Bihar capital, who died last week at a hospital here of injuries in the brain. |
Two Dalit girls gang-raped in Bihar
Patna, Nov 4 (IANS) Two minor Dalit girls were gang-raped by two men Monday in Bihar's Banka district, police said. One of the accused has been arrested. |
Ignoring fear, millions celebrate Diwali across Bihar
Patna, Nov 3 (IANS) Millions of people across Bihar celebrated Diwali with religious fervour Sunday, barely a week after serial blasts in Patna killed seven people, including a suspected bomber, and injured nearly 100 others. |
Modi meets kin of Patna serial blasts
Patna, Nov 2 (IANS) BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Saturday met the family of Rajnarain Singh, one of the six people killed in serial blasts that took place just before he was to address a rally here Sunday. |
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NIA detains youth for Patna serial blasts
Patna, Nov 1 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency, probing into the Patna's serial blasts, Friday detained a youth who helped one of the arrested terror suspects, a police official said. |
Modi to visit Bihar blast victims' families
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will Saturday visit the homes of the six people who died in the serial blasts in Patna, ahead of a rally that he addressed at Patna's Gandhi Maidan last Sunday, the BJP said here Friday. |
MP booked for fraudulent LTC claims
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS)The CBI Friday registered a case against a Rajya Sabha MP of the Janata Dal-United party for allegedly filing a fraudulent Leave Travel Concession (LTC) claim, using forged air tickets and boarding passes, an official said. |
NHRC takes on Bihar Police over abuse
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to Bihar Police over a published report that policemen thrashed a mentally challenged man, an official statement said Friday. |
| Civil servants welcome SC order on fixed tenure New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court's direction that civil servants should have an assured minimum tenure has been welcomed by bureaucrats who said it would make a difference to people working at the field level and help them achieve their targets in a better manner. |
Injured suspect in Patna serial blasts dead
Patna, Nov 1 (IANS) A suspect in the serial blasts that hit the Bihar capital last Sunday and who was seriously injured in a bomb explosion at the Patna railway station, Ainul alias Tarique, died due to his injuries at a hospital here, police said. |
Patna serial blasts suspect 're-arrested' in Kanpur
Lucknow, Oct 31 (IANS) Terror suspect Meher Alam, accused of involvement in Sunday's Patna serial blasts and who escaped from the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur city late Thursday. |
Sibal challenges Modi to debate
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Law Minister Kapil Sibal Friday challenged the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to a public debate and said the Gujarat chief minister doesn't have any vision for the country. |
| Two Gujarat policemen die in UP Lucknow, Nov 1 (IANS) Two policemen from the Gujarat bomb disposal squad going to Patna for Chief Minister Narendra Modi's trip were killed in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh Friday, police said. |
Patna serial blasts suspect held, escapes
Patna, Oct 31 (IANS) Meher Alam, a terror suspect in the Patna serial blasts, fled from a toilet in Muzaffarpur while being brought here from Darbhanga district, police said Thursday. |
Bihar Police promise 'foolproof security' to Modi
Patna, Oct 31 (IANS) Police Thursday pledged to provide "foolproof" security to BJP leader Narendra Modi when he visits Bihar over the weekend to meet families of those killed on the day of his rally here. |
One more Patna terror suspect held
Patna, Oct 31 (IANS) Terror suspect Meher Alam has been detained as sleuths raided several places in Bihar to hunt down those who unleashed a string of bombings here that left six dead, police said Thursday. |
Jharkhand High Court rejects Lalu's bail plea
Ranchi, Oct 31 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court Thursday rejected the bail petition of former Bihar chief minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad. The court said it did not find merit in the bail plea. |
Third arrest in Patna serial blasts
Patna, Oct 30 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA), along with Bihar Police, has arrested one more person on suspicion of involvement in Sunday's serial blasts in Patna, police Wednesday said. |
Modi to meet Patna blast victims
Patna, Oct 30 (IANS) BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will visit Bihar Saturday to meet the injured and families of those who were killed in serial blasts in and around his Sunday rally venue, party leaders said Wednesday. |
We will battle communal forces, says Nitish
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Under attack from the BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Bihar Chief Minister Wednesday urged secular parties to close ranks to battle "communal forces". |
BJP asks why Nitish is 'soft' on Congress
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party Wednesday lashed out at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for being "soft" on the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government on issues related to corruption, inflation and misgovernance. |
Probe Nitish Kumar's security lapse for Modi: BJP
Kolkata, Oct 29 (IANS) Demanding a probe into the "criminal negligence" by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in ensuring security for its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at Sunday's Patna rally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday alleged the Gandhi Maidan serial blasts were proof of Nitish Kumar's failure. |
Third Front unworkable due to leaders' ego: BJP
Kolkata, Oct 29 (IANS) Ridiculing efforts at forming a Third Front of regional forces, the BJP Tuesday said such a combination would never work as leaders of such outfits all think they are bigger than their counterparts in other parties. |
Three more bombs found in Patna, CPI-ML rally disallowed
Patna, Oct 29 (IANS) Three bombs were found in and around the Gandhi Maidan Tuesday, one barely half an hour before union Home Secretary Anil Goswami visited the spot that saw a string of explosions ahead of BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally Sunday, police said. |
Modi cannot become PM, says Nitish Kumar
Patna, Oct 29 (IANS) BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's desire to become the prime minister will remain a dream, his foe and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asserted Tuesday. |
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Bihar was alerted about Modi rally attack: Shinde Gurgaon, Oct 29 (IANS) The central government had warned Bihar about a possible terror attack at BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's Patna rally, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Tuesday. |
Main Patna terror suspect in custody, another critical
Patna, Oct 29 (IANS) Mohammad Imtiaz Ansari, one of the two terror suspects arrested for serial blasts in Patna, was Tuesday sent to judicial custody by a court here while a second terror suspect is battling for life. |
When a braveheart pounced on a Patna terror suspect
atna, Oct 29 (IANS) A security official caught hold of a man scurrying away from a Patna railway station toilet where a blast took place Sunday. And the terror suspect who tried to bluff his way out has turned out to be a big catch.
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Blasts leave a trail of unanswered questions Patna,(BiharTimes): When an explosion took place in a bathroom at platform number-10 of Patna railway station on the morning of Hunkar Rally day a couple of TV channels initially reported that it was a crude bomb which injured just one person. |
Adequate security provided to Modi: Shinde
A day after multiple blasts in Patna ahead of Narendra Modi's rally there, union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Monday said adequate security has been provided to BJP's prime ministerial candidate. |
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Punish the guilty in Patna, Jamaat says
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has demanded "stringent action" against those who carried out a string of bomb attacks in Patna killing six people. |
Strengthen intelligence to curb terror: CPI-M
Patna, Oct 28 (IANS) The CPI-M Monday called for strengthening the intelligence network to foil terror attacks and sought the arrest of "real culprits" in the Patna bombings that killed six people. |
Man behind Patna serial blasts identified
Patna, Oct 28 (IANS) Tahseen Akhtar, allegedly a member of Indian Mujahideen (IM), is the brain behind the string of explosions in Patna Sunday that left six dead, authorities said Monday. |
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Patna blasts toll rises to six as bomber dies
The toll in the serial blasts in the Bihar capital went up to six following the death of a bomber who was seriously injured in an explosion while setting up a bomb, an official said Monday. |
BJP leaders averted major tragedy
Patna(BiharTimes) : The mammoth gathering of lakhs of people in Gandhi Maidan would have turned into a stampede if BJP leaders would not have adopted tactical strategy to meet this grim situation in a much matured manner. |
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 The soft and hard facts of Narendra Modi’s speech
The apparent softness shown by the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi towards RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his bitter criticism of friend-turned-rival, Nitish Kumar, have raised a serious question: whom is the BJP considering itself the main enemy in Bihar? |
Called Lalu after his May accident, says Modi Patna, Oct 27 (IANS) BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday stressed the need to ensure good relations in public life, recalling that he even telephoned his vocal critic, RJD chief Lalu Prasad, to inquire about his health a day after he was injured in an accident in May. |
In terror-hit Patna, Modi calls for Hindu-Muslim unity
Patna, Oct 27 (IANS) As serial bomb blasts killed five people, including four at his rally, BJP's star Narendra Modi Sunday called for Hindu-Muslim unity even as he viciously targeted Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. |
No intelligence input: Nitish Kumar
Patna, O Oct 27 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Sunday said there was no intelligence input, either from the central or state government regarding the serial blasts in the state capital Sunday. |
NSG, NIA to probe Patna blasts
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Minister of State for Home R.P.N. Singh said Sunday that teams of the National Security Guards (NSG) and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) were being rushed to Patna to investigate the bomb blasts in the Bihar capital. |
Blasts to vitiate Bihar's atmosphere: Nitish Kumar
Patna, Oct 27 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Sunday said the serial blasts in which five people were killed and more than 70 others injured, in and around the ground where Bharatiya Janata Party's Narendra Modi addressed a rally barely hours later, were aimed at vitiating the atmosphere in Bihar. |
Bomb blast at Patna railway station injures two
The bomb exploded at the recently-constructed platform number 10 at the Patna junction station around 10.30 a.m. ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's "hunkar" rally here, police said. |
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A night before rally
Patna,(BiharTimes): Bharatiya Janata Party is spending money like anything to make the October 27 Hunkar Rally a big success––at least Rs 10 crore, according to media stories on the basis of state intelligence official. |
CPI praises Nitish govt, calls on secular forces to unite
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Friday called upon all secular parties to come on one platform for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to provide an alternative government that would fight communalism and corruption, ensure food security, women safety and tackle price rise and inflation. |
Using court rulings to achieve political ends
Patna,(BiharTimes): Apart from Hunkar Rally it is a couple of recent court rulings, which have become the talking point in the drawing rooms of the urban middle class as well as rural chaupals in Bihar. |
Jagannath Mishra gets bail in fodder scam
Ranchi, Oct 25 (IANS) Former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra, sentenced to five years in jail in the fodder scam, was Friday granted provisional bail of two months by the Jharkhand High Court on medical grounds. |
Apologize, BJP tells Rahul Gandhi
Patna, Oct 25 (IANS) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi should apologize for stating that the Pakistani intelligence had contacted Muslim youths hit by the Muzaffarnagar communal violence, BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain said Friday. |
Modi to bring bullet-resistant SUV for own security
Patna,(BiharTimes): Following the Bihar government’s inability to part one of its two bullet-resistant SUVs for BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, the Gujarat government has decided to bring one such vehicle from Jhansi, where he addressed a public meeting on Friday evening. |
Sushil Modi seeks Rs 50,000 crore special package for Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi is of the view that though his party supports the special category status for Bihar, it would solve only five per cent of the problem of the state. Instead what Bihar needs is the special package of Rs 50,000 crore. |
Bihar orphanage head arrested for child's death Patna, Oct 26 (IANS) The head of a children's orphanage in Bihar's Vaishali district was arrested Saturday, three days after a child died and 10 fell ill after eating contaminated food, officials said. |
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EU keen to associate with Nalanda University
Patna, Oct 25 (IANS) After southeast Asian countries, the European Union (EU) member countries are now keen to associate with the upcoming Nalanda International University at the ancient seat of learning in Bihar, an official said Friday. |
SuMo rummages through Patna streets in NaMo’s name !
Patna(BiharTimes): The Bihar BJP is pulling all stops together to make party’s proposed Hunkar Rally on Sunday in which BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi will be storming Nitish Kumar’s bastion, but on Thursday what the people of Patna witnessed on the streets reminded them of RJD regime ... |
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Job aspirants a worried lot as exams clash with Hunkar Rally
Patna,(BiharTimes): Thousands of candidates who are to appear for Staff Selection Commission, Railway Recruitment Board, Probationary Officers exam of banks and Bihar Combined Entrance Test conducted by Examination Council are worried lot as their exams fall on October 27... |
Bihar landmine blast accused surrenders
Patna, Oct 24 (IANS) One of the men accused of killing seven people in Bihar's Aurangabad district last week surrendered in court Thursday and was sent to 14 days' judicial custody, police said. |
Maoists blast mobile tower in Bihar
Patna, Oct 24 (IANS) Maoists blew up a mobile tower and set ablaze a bus Thursday in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district to enforce a 24-hour strike called by them to protest the acquittal of 26 men convicted for the 1997 Laxmanpur-Bathe massacre, police said. |
Tiger kills woman in Bihar
Patna, Oct 24 (IANS) A tiger killed a woman in a national park in Bihar's West Champaran district, a forest official said Thursday. |
Bihar nurse to share stage with Malala at UN function
Patna, Oct 24 (IANS) A Bihar woman health official is set to share stage with Malala Yousufzai, who was shot in the head and neck by the Taliban for advocating girls' education in her country Pakistan, in New York next month, officials Thursday said. |
Nine-day Diwali event in Trinidad & Tobago
Port-of-Spain, Oct 24 (IANS) The first Hindu chaplain of the US army, Capt. Pratima Dharma will be the chief guest at the 27th Divali Nagar, the annual exposition of Indo-Trinidadian culture held on the occasion of Diwali, that will be held Oct 24-Nov 1 in the borough of Chaguanas in Trinidad and Tobago. |
SC awards NRI Rs.6.08 crore medical negligence compensation
New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday awarded Rs.6,08,00,550 compensation to Indian-American doctor Kunal Saha, ordering the Kolkata-based Advance Medicare Research Institute (AMRI) to pay for medical negligence resulting in his wife Anuradha's death in 1988. |
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Raj Bhavan constitutes search panel to select VCs, pro-VCs
Patna,(BiharTimes): Raj Bhavan on Tuesday announced the constitution of the search committees for appointment of vice-chancellors (VCs) and pro-VCs in 11 universities of the state. October 23 was the last date for submitting applications for the posts.
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Secular crusaders accuse Narendra Modi of misusing govt funds
Patna,(BiharTimes): Noted campaigner against communalism Shabnam Hashmi of ANHAD, leading Hindi writer, Alok Dhanwa and social activists Arshad Ajmal and Rupesh have strongly denounce the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, for misusing huge amount of government funds and resources for his personal projection ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha poll. |
Congress googly catches Nitish on wrong foot
Patna,(BiharTimes): Recent developments in Bihar suggest that there is a sense of panic in the Janata Dal (United) rank and file. Even the state chief minister Nitish Kumar, in the words of former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, is a totally confused man. |
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Rabri Devi confident of alliance with Congress
Patna, Oct 22 (IANS) Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi said she is hopeful and confident that the Congress will join hands with her party RJD to strengthen secular alliance in the state for the 2014 general elections. |
Disqualification would not weaken us: Rabri Devi
Patna,(BiharTimes): RJD leader and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi said that the disqualification of Lalu Yadav would not at all affect the party, which will continue to grow strong with each passing day. |
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Time to make up for the cancelled dinner to Narendra Modi: Bihar BJP
Patna,(BiharTimes): The people of Bihar have now got an opportunity to make up for the cancellation of dinner on June 12, 2010 hosted for BJP bigwigs following the publication of an old photo in an advertisement showing Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar hand-in-hand with his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi. |
Huge loss to banana crop in Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): Post-cyclone heavy rain and high-speed wind have destroyed more than 70 per cent of banana in Vaishali district of Bihar. The district is known for banana production all over the country. |
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Probe ordered into Bihar prisoner's death
Patna, Oct 22 (IANS) Bihar's jail authorities Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the death of a convicted prisoner, lodged in Hajipur divisional jail of the state's Vaishali district, following angry protest by hundreds of inmates, officials said. |
| Pre-poll surveys just a manoranjan: CM Patna,(BiharTimes): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday dubbed the pre-poll surveys done by different agencies as ‘manoranjan’ (entertainment) and PR exercise. |
Embarrassed Nitish govt takes U-turn on mid-day meal tragedy
Patna,(BiharTimes): More than three months after state Education Minister Prashant Kumar Shahi publicly claimed that the mid-day meal tragedy in Saran district was a political conspiracy hatched by opposition parties Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Monday that he had not said any such thing after the death of 23 children on July 16 last. |
| Nitish ridicules ASI’s “gold rush” in Unnao Patna,(BiharTimes): Alleging that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) ignored Bihar government’s request for digging historical sites more valuable than 1,000 tonnes of gold Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday ridiculed the Centre on the excavation at Unnao in central Uttar Pradesh. |
Two girls elope, marry each other in Bihar
Patna, Oct 21 (IANS) In probably the first case of same sex marriage in Bihar, two girls ran away from their homes here to get married to each other, a police official said Monday. |
C P Thakur warns of return of caste-war in Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): Fearing that Bihar may once again plunge into caste war the BJP Vice President, Dr C P Thakur, demanded a compensation of Rs 10 lakh, government jobs to one member of each of the seven victims of Pisai killing, CBI probe into the incident, besides construction of roads and setting up a permanent police station in the village and implementation of central and state government schemes for development of Maoist-infested areas. |
Nitish announces more facilities for private entrepreneurs
Patna,(BiharTimes): Chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Monday that the state government had decided to accord the private industrial areas facilities, tax rebates and other concessions at par with the industrial parks of Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA). They would also be entitled to concessions announced under the new industrial policy of the state government. |
Environmentalist Sunita Narain injured in accident
New Delhi, October 21, 2013: Cyclists in Indian cities are being edged out systematically to make way for cars – sometimes literally so. CSE director general & Environmentalist Sunita Narain was hit by a car while on her daily cycling run on Sunday morning near Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences. She suffered fractures on both her arms and her nose. |
BJP hires 11 trains for Hunkar Rally
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bharatiya Janata Party has reserved 11 trains for the October 27 Hunkar Rally. Besides, more than 3,000 buses and other vehicles would be used to bring supporters to attend the rally. |
Maoists say they killed seven in Bihar
Patna, Oct 20 (IANS) The banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) Sunday owned up responsibility for killing seven people, including a former commander of the outlawed Ranvir Sena, in a landmine blast in Bihar's Aurangabad district. |
Lalu violates jail manual, faces threat: Police Ranchi, Oct 20 (IANS) RJD president and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad, sentenced to five years in jail in a fodder scam case, faces security threats as he leads a life of comfort as a prisoner, Jharkhand Police has said. |
Will not compromise with principles: Nitish
Patna,(BiharTimes): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday reiterated that he is not going to make any compromise with principles and alleged that efforts are on by some people to create a certain atmosphere in the country. But this would not last long, he added. |
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Sushil’s killing was planned by Maoists before Bathe verdict: Sources
Patna,(BiharTimes): The blast on a bridge in Obra block of Aurangabad district on Thursday evening, which killed seven people, including Sushil Pandey, husband of the district board member, Usha Devi, is the first such attack on civilians in Bihar in the recent times. Normally, they use landmine blasts to kill central and state police personnel. |
SC cancels Rupam Pathak’s bail
Patna,(BiharTimes): The division bench of Justice A K Patnaik and Justice Jagdish Singh Khebar of the Supreme Court on Friday cancelled the bail granted by Patna high court to Rupam Pathak, who was convicted in the case of killing of the then sitting Purnia BJP MLA, Raj Kishore Kesri, on January 4,2011. |
Police hunt for Narayan Sai in Bihar ashram
Patna, Oct 18 (IANS) A joint team of Gujarat and Bihar Police Friday searched an ashram in Darbhanga for spiritual guru Asaram Bapu's son Narayan Sai, on the run after being accused of sexually exploiting a minor along with his father, but failed to find him, police said. |
57 booked for Bihar landmine blast
Patna, Oct 18 (IANS) As many as 57 people were booked in Bihar's Aurangabad district Friday, a day after seven people were killed in a massive landmine blast triggered by Maoists. |
Seven killed in landmine blast in Aurangabad district
Patna,(BiharTimes): Seven people were killed when the Tata Safari in which they were travelling blew up in a landmine blast at a small bridge in Khudwan in the Aranda forest under Obra block of Aurangabad district on Thursday evening. |
Lalu moves Jharkhand High Court against sentence
Ranchi, Oct 17 (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad Thursday moved the Jharkhand High Court against the five-year jail term awarded to him by a special CBI court in a fodder scam case, his lawyers said. |
UPA to lose 2014, regional parties will hold key
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) The Congress-led UPA is set to lose the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, and regional parties will be a key factor in deciding who gets to rule India, said a survey released Wednesday. |
Madhya Pradesh stampede toll 111, Datia officials suspended
Bhopal, Oct 14 (IANS) The toll in a horrific stampede at a Durga temple in Madhya Pradesh's Datia Monday rose to 111, including 47 women and 33 children. The state government, which ordered a judicial probe, suspended four top district officials after the poll panel's nod. |
Rules for organ transplant notified in Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): To remove the legal barriers in transplantation of human organs in the state the Bihar government has notified the rules related to Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 2002. |
CM holds high-level meet as flood alert sounded in Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): Keeping in mind the threat of flood a high-level meeting headed by the chief minister Nitish Kumar took place in Patna on Mondaymid-noon. The meeting took stock of the situation in all the districts and reviewed loss of property and life––if any. |
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Heavy rain throws life out of gear in Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): Bihar has been witnessing average to heavy rainfall since Cyclone Phailin lashed eastern coast of India, especially Odisha and Andhra Pradesh on Saturday night. . |
Cyclone slams coast, heavy rains in Odisha, Andhra
Bhubaneswar/Hyderabad, Oct 12 (IANS) Cyclonic storm Phailin Saturday night slammed east coast near Gopalpur in Odisha, triggering heavy rains and strong winds with speed reaching up to 200 km an hour while more than 500,000 people were shifted to safety in coastal Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. |
The poor lose hope of justice in caste massacres
Patna, Oct 12 (IANS) There's seemingly no hope of justice for Saryu Rajwar and Binod Ram, whose close relatives were among the 58 Dalits, the poorest of the poor, who were killed by the upper-caste Ranvir Sena in the 1997 Laxmanpur-Bathe village massacre in Bihar. The victims had included as many as 27 women and 10 children. |
CRPF seizes 15 kg of explosives in Bihar
Patna, Oct 12 (IANS) The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has seized 15 kg of explosives used in Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in a joint operation with the Bihar Police, a CRPF officer said Saturday. |
Bihar CM lays foundation stone of Ganga Expressway
Patna, Oct 11 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Friday laid the foundation stone of the Ganga Expressway here, paving the way for the much-awaited road project. He said it will prove a turning point for the economic development of the state. |
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| Twelve die as tractor-trolley overturns in Bihar Patna, Oct 11 (IANS) At least 12 people died and about two dozen were injured Friday night when a tractor-trolley carrying them from a temple overturned and slammed into a roadside ditch in Bihar's Saharsa district. |
Bihar to exempt chewing tobacco from tax
Patna, Oct 11 (IANS) Bihar has decided to exempt chewing tobacco or 'khaini' from tax to help thousands of farmers who grow tobacco in the state, officials said here Friday. |
Bihar to challenge acquittals in massacre of Dalits
Patna, Oct 10 (IANS) Bihar will file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the Patna High Court verdict acquitting 26 men convicted in a 1997 case of 58 Dalits' massacre in Jehanabad district, an official said Thursday |
President cuts short Bihar visit
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee has cut short a two-day visit to Patna, and will now be in the Bihar capital only on Oct 26. |
BJP hires 10 trains for Narendra Modi's rally
Patna, Oct 10 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has hired 10 trains to ferry its supporters here for the Oct 27 rally of its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, a senior leader said Thursday. |
Governor’s Principal Secretary shifted soon after his return from Mumbai
Patna,(BiharTimes): In a sudden move the state government on Tuesday night transferred the Principal Secretary to Governor. Sudhir Kumar Rakesh, and made him the Director General of Bihar Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development. He replaced E L N S Bala Prasad, who will remain as Commissioner of Patna division. He has been holding two posts till now. |
10 per cent hike in dearness allowance for Bihar govt employees
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bihar cabinet on Tuesday announced 10 per cent hike in dearness allowance to the state government employees, pensioners and school teachers. The dearness allowance has been increased from 80 to 90 per cent. It would come into effect from July 1, 2013. |
SuMo accuses NiKu of misleading people on Pranab’s visit
Patna,(BiharTimes): Former deputy chief minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday accused Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of misleading the people on finalization of the date of President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to Bihar.
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Is round-the-clock power to district headquarters towns by year-end possible?Patna,(BiharTimes): Keeping in mind the commitment made by chief minister Nitish Kumar, while addressing Independence Day parade in Gandhi Maidan last year Bihar State Power (Holding) Company Limited (BSPHCL) has chalked out an ambitious plan to provide round-the-clock electricity to all the district headquarters towns by December 2013. |
Standing Committee grows suspicious about Nalanda University
Patna (BiharTimes)The Nalanda University (Amendment) Bill, 2013 introduced in the Rajya Sabha during the recently concluded Monsoon Session and referred to the Standing Committee on External Affairs could not be taken up for discussion in the October 4 meeting. Mr. Balbir Punj, MP, Rajya Sabha and member of Standing Committee objected to the way the project has been handled since 2007. |
RJD men imitating Anna in Mein Hoon Lalu way?
Patna,(BiharTimes): Though Lalu Yadav was not an admirer of Anna Hazare––in fact he even criticized the fast undertaken by the crusader against corruption in 2011––Rashtriya Janata Dal workers and supporters are busy imitating him. |
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Extortion case filed against JD(U) MLA Anant Singh
Patna,(BiharTimes): A builder has lodged a case in Shri Krishna Puri police station of Patna against controversial Janata Dal (United) MLA from Mokama, Anant Singh, alleging that latter had demanded Rs 12 crore from him as extortion money. |
Sushil Modi reminded of Nitish’s involvement in fodder scam, CM hits back
Patna,(BiharTimes): After having been friends for over 17 long years and his deputy for over seven and a half years BJP leader, Sushil Kumar Modi, has now been reminded that chief minister Nitish Kumar and Janata Dal (United) general secretary Shivanand Tiwari figure prominently in the fodder scam case. |
| JD-U in two minds over alliance with Congress Patna, Oct 8 (IANS) Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) is divided over entering into an alliance with the Congress for the next general elections though no decision has been taken yet. |
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Nitish does not rule out JD(U)-Congress alliance
Patna,(BiharTimes): Talking to the media a day after senior party leader Shivanand Tiwari called for JD(U)-Congress alliance for the 2014 Lok Sabha poll Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar did not rule out any such possibility. |
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Jailed Lalu appears in another fodder scam case
Ranchi, Oct 7 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, who has been lodged in Ranchi jail after being awarded five years sentence in a fodder scam case, Monday attended court proceedings through video link in another case related to the scam. |
Did Nitish get money in fodder scam?
Patna, (BiharTimes):The five years imprisonment for Lalu in fodder scam was certainly a black day for him as he would also lose his Lok Sabha membership after supreme court ruling but this is no occasion for celebration for his arch political rival and bête noir Nitish Kumar and his party which replaced Laloo from the seat of power in Bihar eight years back. |
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Pranab urged to revise date of Bihar visit
Patna, Oct 7 (IANS) BJP leaders here Monday urged President Pranab Mukharjee to revise the date of his visit to Patna Oct 26-27 as it clashes with a rally by its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. |
Bihar lags far behind in coaching scheme for Schedule Castes, OBCs
Patna,(BiharTimes): Bihar is third from the bottom of the list of States and Union Territories in utilizing Central government scheme of providing free coaching to Schedule Caste and OBC students who want to compete for jobs in Central services. Only Chandigarh and much smaller Nagaland are behind it. |
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Non-MBA Lalu to be management guru in Birsa Jail
Patna,(BiharTimes): RJD president Lalu Prasad would teach Political Science and Management to the inmates of the Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi. He would be paid Rs 25 daily for this work. |
Bihar's food subsidy to double: Ramesh
Patna, Oct 6 (IANS) Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh Sunday said Bihar's food subsidy and foodgrain allocation would be doubled under the National Food Security Bill.
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Succession war in RJD
Patna, (BiharTimes):Rahtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad is perhaps facing worst political crisis of his life after getting convicted in fodder scam and sentenced to imprisonment for five years consequently lead to his disqualification had to a great extent marginalized his political canvass which he nurtured all these years. |
Lalu still a factor in Bihar
Patna, Oct 5 (IANS) Whichever way one looks at it, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, jailed for five years for siphoning off government money, will remain a strong influence on the politics of Bihar. |
PIL filed against Lalu's durbar, jail comforts
Ranchi, Oct 4 (IANS) Jailed former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad is holding a durbar and is meeting a number of visitors, when he is not resting, in a jail cottage that has a separate bathroom, alleges a PIL filed in the Jharkhand High Court. |
Bihar to confiscate corrupt official's assets
Ranchi, Oct 4 (IANS) Jailed former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad is holding a durbar and is meeting a number of visitors, when he is not resting, in a jail cottage that has a separate bathroom, alleges a PIL filed in the Jharkhand High Court. |
Lalu supporter dies, another on fast
Patna, Oct 4 (IANS) A supporter of RJD leader Lalu Prasad collapsed and died after a court jailed the former Bihar chief minister to five years in prison while another fan is on a protest fast. |
For Lalu Prasad, jail not a new experience
Patna, Oct 3 (IANS) Jail will not be new for former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad, who has spent time, held court, cooked food and virtually run the party and the state government from behind bars in his over four decade-long political career, leaders close to him said here. |
Lalu, Rabri's villages in shock, disbelief
Patna, Oct 3 (IANS) Hundreds of people in Lalu Prasad's native village and his wife Rabri Devi's village in Bihar's Gopalganj district were shocked after the RJD leader was jailed for five years in a fodder scam case Thursday. |
 Lalu jailed for five years, ceases to be MP
Ranchi, Oct 3 (IANS) Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad was Thursday jailed for five years for his role in the Rs.950 crore fodder scam that surfaced 17 years ago, effectively ending the electoral career of one of India's best known politicians.
How can I be punished, asks Lalu
Ranchi, Oct 3 (IANS) "When I have not done any crime, how have I been punished?" This was Lalu Prasad's instant reaction when a CBI court jailed him for five years for his involvement in the fodder scam. |
Congress downplays Lalu Prasad's sentencing New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) The Congress Thursday downplayed a special CBI court sentencing Lalu Prasad to five years in jail in a fodder scam case, saying conviction of one leader does not affect a party. |
We expected justice from court: Rabri Devi
Patna, Oct 3 (IANS) Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi said Thursday that the RJD was disappointed after a court jailed her husband and party leader Lalu Prasad for five years in the fodder scam. |
Lalu's ex-secretary dodging CBI for 17 years
Patna, Oct 3 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad's private secretary during 1990-96 and his partner in crime in the fodder scam has continued to dodge the CBI for 17 years, even though he was seen reportedly "enjoying life" in Dehradun in Uttarakhand state. |
Lalu's rivals welcome his jail sentence
Patna, Oct 3 (IANS) Political rivals of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad in Bihar welcomed the special CBI court's verdict Thuersday sentencing him to five years in jail in the fodder scam. |
JD-U suspends two MPs for six years
Patna, Oct 2 (IANS) Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United Wednesday suspended two of its MPs for six years for anti-party activities, a party leader said. |
Rahul protest forces government to axe ordinance, bill
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Forced into a corner after the public censure by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the cabinet presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday withdrew the controversial ordinance and the bill that sought to save convicted lawmakers from disqualification. |
Nitish hails ordinance withdrawal
Patna, Oct 2 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar welcomed the cabinet decision to withdraw a controversial ordinance aimed at protecting convicted lawmakers. |
JD-U dilemma on scam tainted leaders
Patna, Oct 2 (IANS) Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United is in a dilemma on whether or not to act against two of its senior leaders convicted in the fodder scam. |
Rabri Devi to meet Lalu in jail
Patna, Oct 2 (IANS) Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi is likely to meet her husband and RJD leader Lalu Prasad, convicted in the fodder scam, in the Ranchi jail soon, a party source said Wednesday. |
Bihar bans cartoons during festival season
Patna, Oct 1 (IANS) The Bihar govt Tuesday banned religious and political cartoons in the state during the upcoming festival season. It directed the police to maintain communal harmony at all costs and act firmly against anti-socials and trouble-makers, officials said. |
I am sad for Lalu: Shatrughan Sinha
Patna, Oct 1 (IANS) Actor-politician and BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha Tuesday said he was sad for RJD founder Lalu Prasad and wished to see him out of jail soon. |
Birsa Munda Jail: Home for tainted politicians
Ranchi, Oct 1 (IANS) It is a prison built in memory of legendary freedom fighter Birsa Munda. It is now turning out to be a virtual second home for tainted politicians and officials in Jharkhand. |
72 sitting MPs could go if convicted
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) As many as 72 sitting MPs face criminal charges and could be disqualified if convicted for over two years, watchdog Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) said Tuesday. |
Rasheed Masood jailed for four years, MP no more
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Congress MP Rasheed Masood was sentenced to four years in jail here Tuesday for fraudulently nominating undeserving students for MBBS seats when he was a minister in 1990, becoming the first MP set to lose his seat under a new Supreme Court ruling. |
'Lalu's conviction may impact Congress-RJD ties'
New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) RJD supremo Lalu Prasad's conviction in the fodder scam case is likely to impact politics in Bihar and could have a bearing on the possibility of a tie-up between his RJD and the Congress for the Lok Sabha polls, said a Congress leader from the state. |
Rabri Devi may again lead RJD
Patna, Oct 1 (IANS) A day after a court convicted RJD leader Lalu Prasad in the fodder scam, his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi may head the party again, party sources said Tuesday. |
Ordinance on tainted lawmakers morally unacceptable: BJP
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday termed the ordinance to protect convicted lawmakers as "morally unacceptable" and said the government did not understand this basic thing while pushing for it. |
 Lalu Prasad convicted in fodder scam case
Ranchi, Sep 30 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad was convicted Monday in a fodder scam case by a Special CBI court here.
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BJP hails Lalu Prasad's conviction
New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday hailed Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad's conviction in a fodder scam case, saying it is a day of justice for the people of Bihar.
Lalu's bungalow wears pall of gloom
Patna, Sep 30 (IANS) After his conviction by a Special CBI court in a fodder scam case, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad's official residence at 10, Circular Road in the state capital was a deserted, gloomy place Monday.
Fodder scam highlights
My husband has become victim of conspiracy: Rabri Devi
Patna, Sep 30 (IANS) Downcast after Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad's conviction in a fodder scam case, his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi Monday said that he has become a victim of opposition conspiracy.
Lalu sentencing a huge blow to RJD
Patna, Sep 30 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leaders admitted Monday that their party's future was at stake after a special court convicted its leader Lalu Prasad in the fodder scam.
Will appeal in high court, says Lalu's son
Ranchi, Sep 30 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad's eldest son Tejasavi Yadav said Monday that the conviction of his father in a fodder scam case by a Special CBI court here would be challenged in the high court.
Jagannath Mishra admitted to a hospital
Patna(BiharTimes) Fodder scam accused and former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra was admitted to a hospital in Ranchi on Monday, hours after a special CBI court convicted him and 44 others in a fodder scam case.
Lalu Prasad: A maverick who made waves -- in and beyond politics
New Delhi/Patna, Sep 30 (IANS) He milked cows at his official residence, dressed only in his undergarments. He was photographed eating rotis being baked by his wife in the kitchen. |
Bihar sounds alert ahead of Lalu verdict
Patna, Sep 30 (IANS) Authorities in Bihar have sounded an alert across the state Monday, apprehending trouble after the court pronounced verdict in a multi-crore fodder scam case involving Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav. |
Dr. Saibal Gupta’s Position on Rajan Committee Report: From Sublime to Absurd
It would indeed be quite difficult to argue with a rock star economist, especially if he is governor designate of Reserve Bank of India, as is Dr Raghuram Rajan. Yet Dr. Gupta has been very effective in arguing a rational position on evolving the underdevelopment Index, as borne out by his note of dissent. I must say that the dissent note has been argued very cogently an d showcases a sublime touch on part of Dr. Gupta.
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On Raghuram Rajan Committee report
Cause Celebre over a Sham Underdevelopment Index
Do the orchestrated celebratory fireworks on Patna streets to give a positive spin to otherwise irrelevant ‘underdevelopment index’ show political desperation of JDU dispensation? |
PM should take back ordinance: Nitish
Patna, Sep 28 (IANS) A day after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi opposed an ordinance against disqualification of convicted lawmakers, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take back the ordinance. |
Nitish supports Rahul's stand on ordinance
Patna, Sep 27 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Friday supported Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's opposition to the ordinance against disqualification of convicted lawmakers, terming his stand right.
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Rahul destabilises government, but rescues Congress
Beware the fury of a patient man, wrote the English poet, John Dryden, in the 17th century. Rahul Gandhi hasn't been a patient man so much as a quiet one, who has occasionally broken longish periods of silence and absence from India to indulge in philosophical musings, such as that poverty is “a state of the mind”. |
Rahul bombshell: Ordinance wrong, policy nonsense
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) In what is being seen as a divide between the government and the ruling party, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday said the Manmohan Singh government was "wrong" in clearing an ordinance that seeks to save convicted lawmakers from disqualification and, in his opinion, it should be "torn up and thrown away". |
Nitish Kumar scores a point over rivals
Patna, Sep 27 (IANS) Bihar will, in all probability, not get special category status ahead of the 2014 general elections but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is upbeat after scoring a point over his rivals with the Raghuram Rajan committee identifying the state as one of the "least developed". |
Ordinance brings relief to Bihar's tainted law-makers
Patna, Sep 27 (IANS) Many of Bihar's MPs facing criminal charges are relaxed, and their supporters upbeat, after the union cabinet approved an ordinance to negate a Supreme Court order disqualifying members of parliament and legislatures convicted in criminal cases. |
Voter has right to negative voting: SC
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) In a significant verdict, the Supreme Court Friday said that for a vibrant democracy the voter has the right to negative voting by rejecting all the candidates in fray by exercising the option of None of the Above (NOTA) in EVMs and ballot papers. |
Panel member Shaibal disagrees with Rajan report
Patna: The Raghuraj Raman Committee report recommendation has generated much political firework in Bihar. It suggested completely doing away with the “Special Category” status provided to some states. The committee recommendations have virtually proved dampener to Nitish Kumar’s campaign for grant of special category status to Bihar despite misplaced celebration in ruling party JDU office in Patna. |
Bihar Media Scan
Nitish govt’s generosity towards media-houses continue
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar has always been generous in giving advertisements to various media-houses. Ever since it came to power on November 24, 2005 it has been keeping the media barons in good humour, though in the process the journalists had to make a lot of compromise in their work and toe the state government’s line. Those who dared had to pay the price. |
Rajan panel submits report, but no mention of special category status to Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Report of the Dr Raghuram Rajan Committee for Evolving a Composite Development Index of States has identified Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh as the “Least Developed” States while Goa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu etc have been put in the criteria of the developed states. |
Central team to visit drought-hit Bihar Oct 3 Patna, Sep 26 (IANS) A central team will visit drought-hit Bihar Oct 3 to assess the situation, state government officials said Thursday, adding that after the assessment the quantum of relief would be decided. |
12 killed in Jammu terror attack Jammu
Sep 26 (IANS) 12 people, including an army officer, were killed Thursday when separatist guerrillas mounted an audacious attack on a police station in Jammu region and commandeered a truck which they drove into an army camp where soldiers took them on. |
Cabinet sanctions Rs 2579.17 crore for maintenance, repair of roads
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bihar cabinet on Tuesday sanctioned Rs 2579.17 crore for the maintenance and repair of 9064.31km of state highways and main district roads under its “Long-term output and performance-based road assets maintenance contract” for next five years. A sum of Rs 610 crore has been allocated for the current financial year.
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Nitish was never at ease with Advani, was a fan of Vajpayee: Sushil Modi
Patna,(BiharTimes): The display of Nitish-Advani bonhomie at the National Integration Council meeting in New Delhi on Monday has now taken a new twist with the former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi stating that “Nitishji was a fan of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He never was at ease with Advaniji.” |
High Court orders reconstruction of wall around BIADA land in Bhajanpura
Patna,(BiharTimes): A single bench of Justice Kishore Kumar Mandal of Patna high court on September 23, had ordered the Araria district magistrate and superintendent of police to get the damaged wall on the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA) land at Bhajanpura in Forbesganj sub-division of the district reconstructed within five weeks. |
Nitish may retreat to Rajgir on Hunkar Rally day
Patna,(BiharTimes): When the BJP will be organizing its Hunkar (battle-cry) Rally in Patna on October 27 there is likelihood that the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar may not be in the state capital to have the first hand feel of the situation. |
NIA announces reward for info about two IM operatives
Hyderabad, Sep 24 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has announced reward of Rs.10 lakh each for information about two operatives of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), including a Pakistani, allegedly involved in Feb 21 bomb blasts in Hyderabad. |
Bihar's Mahabodhi temple gets income tax notice
Patna, Sep 24 (IANS) For the first time, the Income Tax department has issued notice to Bodh Gaya's Mahabodhi temple, Buddhism's holiest shrine, over its collections, officials Tuesday said. |
Nitish can shake hand with Nawaz Sharif, but not wish NaMo: Sushil Modi
Patna,(BiharTimes): Former Bihar deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said that while Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar can shake hands with Nawaz Sharif (now Pakistani Prime Minister) he can not wish his Gujarat counterpart, Narendra Modi, on his birthday or his thirds successive election victory. |
CBI busts PO exam racket
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday busted an inter-state gang said to be involved in an racket of getting job-aspirants appointed as Probationary Officers (POs) and clerks in nationalized banks. |
Not progress alone, but communal amity too: Nitish Kumar
New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) In a thinly veiled reference to Narendra Modi, BJP's prime minister candidate for the 2014 general elections, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday said the people of India want progress, but not at the cost of communal amity. |
Bihar at the bottom of birth sex ratio
Patna,(BiharTimes): With a birth sex ratio of 751 Bihar is the worst performing state in India. It is followed by Arunachal Pradesh at 806 and Haryana, 853. Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Jharkhand are among the poor performers. |
| RJD, LJP question Nitish, Advani bonhomie Patna,(BiharTimes): The warmth with which BJP patriarch Lal Krishna Advani and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar greeted each other at the National Integration Council meeting in New Delhi gave the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Lok Janshakti Party an opportunity to criticize both the Janata Dal (United) and BJP. |
| Bara massacre: SC acquits one, converts death penalty into life term of two Patna,(BiharTimes): A bench of Justice A K Patnaik and Justice H L Gokhale of Supreme Court on Monday acquitted Maoist Communist Centre––now CPI (Maoist)––member Naresh Paswan on the basis of lack of evidence and shoddy investigation by the police and converted the death sentence of the other two accused Vyas Ram and Bugal Mochi into life imprisonment. |
Three held for gang rape of Bihar girl Patna, Sep 22 (IANS) Three of four men who barged into a house and gangraped a young girl in a village in Bihar's Supaul district were arrested Sunday, police said. |
CBI fear behind Nitish-Congress closeness: BJPPatna, Sep 21 (IANS) The BJP attacked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday, terming his closeness to the Congress an outcome of fears the CBI would frame him in the multi-million-rupee fodder scam. |
Why Nitish should not be charged in fodder scam: HC asks CBI to explain
Patna,(BiharTimes): The single bench of Justice R R Prasad of Jharkhand High Court on Friday directed the CBI to file a counter-affidavit on a writ seeking to make Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Janata Dal (United) Rajya Sabha MP, Shivanand Tiwari, accused in the Rs 950 crore fodder scam. |
Modi supporters trying to muzzle dissent: NitishNew Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar says India could only be governed through inclusive politics and accused BJP leader Narendra Modi's supporters of "trying to muzzle dissent" through social media. |
Big jump in Income Tax collection in Bihar, Jharkhand Patna,(BiharTimes): Though no major investment has been made in the recent months the Income-Tax department’s Patna region, which comprises the states of Bihar and Jharkhand, has achieved the highest growth rate in collection of income-tax and corporate tax in the first half of current financial year. |
Peer Md. Munis :An Organic Intellectual Activist of the Champaran Satyagraha
IT IS THE TEAM THAT COUNTS
Amit Shah cancels Bihar visit following opposition from senior party leaders
Patna,(BiharTimes): In a major development being interpreted differently the UP incharge of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Amit Shah, cancelled his proposed visit to Patna on September 21 to attend the 100th birth anniversary of the former chief minister Bhola Paswan Shashtri. The latter was chief minister of the state for three times between 1968 and 1972. |
Maoists kill STF trooper in Bihar Patna, Sep 20 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas attacked a patrol vehicle in Bihar's Jamui district early Friday, killing a Special Task Force (STF) trooper and seriously injuring two others, police said. |
Nitish seeks Rs 12,000 crore from Centre to fight drought Patna,(BiharTimes): A day after 33 out of 38 districts of the state were declared drought-hit Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar flew to New Delhi on Thursday and first met Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram and than Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar in the afternoon. He is likely to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday. |
| Four killed over land dispute in Bihar Patna, Sep 19 (IANS) Four people, including women and children, were killed Thursday in a village in Bihar's Banka district over a land dispute, police said. |
“Bihar not facing problem of production, but of procurement”
Patna,(BiharTimes): Stating that the second Green Revolution would start from Bihar, which might soon become Punjab, Dr Ashok Gulati, chairman, Commission for Agriculture Cost & Price said the problem with the state is not of production but of procurement. |
12 Bihar, Assam teenagers rescued in Delhi
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) At least 12 teenagers, including seven boys and five girls, brought from Assam and Bihar on promise of jnobs, were rescued here, police said Wednesday. |
33 Bihar districts declared drought-hit Patna,(BiharTimes): Even as a large part of Bihar is to come out of the threat of flood the state cabinet on Wednesday declared 33 out of 38 districts as drought-hit while situation in the rest five––Arwal, Banka, Rohtas, Araria and Kishanganj––is being regularly monitored. |
Sorry, no Jankari please!
Patna,(BiharTimes): Four and a half years back Bihar got Golden Icon and Manthan award for what was then called a revolutionary concept of e-governance. A call centre, Jankari, was set up in January 2007, through which people can easily seek information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The award was given by the department of administrative reforms, Union Ministry of Personnel. |
JD(U), RJD flay Amit Shah’s proposed visit to Bihar
Patna,(BiharTimes): As the BJP gears up to welcome party’s incharge of UP, Amit Shah, on Sep 21 the ruling Janata Dal (United) and Rashtriya Janata Dal have criticized the trip on the plea that it is being undertaken to vitiate the atmosphere of the state. |
But this Bihar minister backs Modi’s remarks on weak Indian leadership
Patna,(BiharTimes): When chief minister Nitish Kumar and his ministerial colleagues are busy attacking the Gujarat chief minister, Bihar’s Science and Technology Minister, Gautam Singh, made it clear that he agrees 100 per cent with Narendra Modi that the neighbouring countries are causing trouble on the border because of the weak leadership in New Delhi. |
Lalu completes arguments in fodder scam case Ranchi, Sep 17 (IANS) Arguments on behalf of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Tuesday were concluded in a court here in a case related to multi-million-rupee lapses in Bihar animal husbandry department, popularly known as the fodder scam. |
Science City to come up in Patna soon: CM Patna,(BiharTimes): Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Tuesday that the Bihar government has decided to construct a modern science city including a non conventional energy village in the state capital.
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Sharad Yadav detained on way to pro-reservation rally
Lucknow, Sep 17 (IANS) Janata Dal-United president Sharad Yadav was Tuesday detained in Ghaziabad as the Uttar Pradesh government clamped down on political leaders and activists headed for a pro-reservation rally in Allahabad. |
Mid-day meal resumes in Bihar school
Patna, Sep 17 (IANS) The mid-day meal was cooked for the first time in two months in a primary school in Bihar where 23 school children died after eating contaminated food, officials said Tuesday. |
BJP diverting people's attention from real issues: Nitish Patna, Sep 16 (IANS) The BJP is diverting the country's attention from real issues like price rise and corruption, and is "pushing its own agenda by projecting a leader not acceptable to all", Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Monday. |
Bihar minister calls Narendra Modi mad man Patna,(BiharTimes): A day after the rural works minister of Bihar, Bhim Singh, accused Gujarat chief minister of riots, massacres, rapes etc in 2002 another member of the Nitish cabinet, agriculture minister, Narendra Singh, said on Monday that Narendra Modi had turned mad (pagal ho gaya hai) and thus should be consigned to the lunatic asylum either in Kanke or Agra. |
Now Advani lauds Narendra Modi
Korba (Chhattisgarh), Sep 16 (IANS) Veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani Monday showered praise on the party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi - along with the Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh chief ministers. |
Lalu accuses Nitish of dividing secular votes in the garb of opposing Narendra Modi
Patna,(BiharTimes): Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad on Sunday accused Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of trying to divide secular votes by opposing nomination of Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP though he had in the past publicly supported the Gujarat chief minister and never demanded the latter’s resignation after the riots of 2002. |
Sharp fall in student classroom ratio in Bihar Patna,(BiharTimes): Notwithstanding various measures the number of days teachers are involved in the non-teaching works have not come down in the country in 2012-13. But the student classroom ratio (SCR) has shown signs of improvement, especiallyBihar. |
Man held for threatening Bihar CM
Patna, Sep 15 (IANS) A man in his mid 20s has been arrested on charges of pasting posters threatening Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, police said Sunday. |
| Big fall in primary school enrollment in Bihar Patna,(BiharTimes): With 11.6 per cent Bihar witnessed the biggest decline in the school enrollment at the primary level in the country. Madhya Pradesh saw the lowest decline, just 3.9 per cent. |
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Power employees attack chief engineers, accused them of betrayal
Patna,(BiharTimes): A day after the lightning strike the agitating employees of Bihar State Power (Holding) Company Limited (BSPHCL), the erstwhile BSEB, on Saturday, assaulted four chief engineers inside their office at Vidyut Bhavan near Income Tax roundabout. |
Power supply disrupted at CM’s function Patna,(BiharTimes): Power supply was disrupted at Ravindra Bhawan during the function of chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday. It was not the normal power cut, but was caused by the striking powermen, who were protesting against Friday’s lathicharge.
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NDA camp left almost empty as JD-U leaves
Nitish Kumar out of NDA -an overview
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BJP's post-Karnataka gloom: Neither united nor untainted
Stress Malady- What's The Remedy ?
Where Stigma is the Pride- Time to decimate Biharism!
Growing Water Crisis Needs Urgent Solution
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Why so serious? Add fun, spunk to everyday things!
DISMAL STATE OF THE CONGRESS
Race for prime minister still wide open
Why political parties oppose being under RTI Act?
New Delhi, Sep 15 One of the main reasons why the six national political parties are opposed to being brought under the RTI Act transparency law is that around 75 percent of their funds come from "unknown" and "undesirable" sources, an NGO has argued. |
Bihar plunges into darkness as power board employees go on warpath
Patna,(BiharTimes): Patna and a large part of Bihar plunged into darkness from Friday evening till Saturday fore-noon following clashes between the employees of Bihar State Electricity Board and Police in and around Vidyut Bhawan in the state capital late on Friday afternoon. |
Bhatkal brought to Bihar for probe
Patna, Sep 14 (IANS) Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was Saturday brought to Bihar's Darbhanga district by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which raided several places to nab other terror suspects on the basis of information provided by him, police said. |
India won't tolerate a divisive leader: Nitish on Modi
Patna, Sep 14 (IANS) The country will not tolerate a "divisive" leader, said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday, a day after BJP anointed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate. |
Death due to pressure from people: Akshay's family
Patna, Sep 13 (IANS) The death penalty awarded to the four men convicted in New Delhi's Dec 16 gang rape was given "due to heavy pressure from people across the country", said the family of Akshay Thakur, one of the convicts. |
Bodh Gaya would be protected, Nitish assures global Buddhist leaders
Patna,(BiharTimes): As a belated damage limitation exercise Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday assured Buddhist religious leaders from across the world that strict security measures have been taken at Bodh Gaya so that no July 7 type incident could take place in future. |
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Our man is Modi, says BJP; Advani sulks
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The countdown to India's general election began Friday with the BJP declaring Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate despite party patriarch L.K. Advani's opposition. A confident Modi pledged to lead the BJP to victory in 2014. |
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Curfew relaxed as Muzaffarnagar peaceful, toll rises to 47
Muzaffarnagar, Sep 13 (IANS) Violence-hit Muzaffarnagar and neighbouring districts of western Uttar Pradesh remained peaceful Friday as curfew was lifted for 12 hours under stern vigil of police and paramilitary forces. The toll rose to 47 with the discovery of more bodies. |
Lalu delegates power to 15 senior RJD leaders Patna,(BiharTimes): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has constituted a team of 15 senior party leaders to strengthen the party at the grassroots level in all the 38 districts of the state. |
 Modi is BJP's PM candidate
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was Friday named the BJP's prime ministerial candidate. |
Bihar the hunger capital of the country: Jean Dreze
Patna,(BiharTimes): Noted economist and author, Jean Dreze, said on Thursday that Bihar could gain immensely from National Food Security Bill 2013 as the state is afflicted with hunger, poverty and social inequality in an intensive form. Thus the state would be entitled to higher allocation of foodgrains for the poor. |
BJP inching towards Modi for PM announcement
New Delhi, Sep 12 The BJP appeared to be inching closer towards announcing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate, possibly on Friday, even as party chief Rajnath Singh continued efforts to bring on board leaders who want the decision to be deferred till the assembly polls. |
Another BJP legislator revolts against Modi
Patna, Sep 12 (IANS) Another BJP legislator in Bihar hit out at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday, saying Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's development model was better than Modi's. |
| JD(U) leaders flay SuMo for criticizing Advani Patna,(BiharTimes): A day after Sushil Kumar Modi’s tweet Janata Dal (United) on Thursday denounced the former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi for his anti-Advani comments saying he is acting like a “Kalyugi” child out to abuse parents. |
Muslim, Musahar girls from Bihar to address UN General Assembly on Sep 24
Patna,(BiharTimes): Two teenage girls––a Muslim and a Musahar––from Bihar would address the United Nations’ General Assembly on September 24 to tell world leaders about problems a girl child face in the state. |
Advani criticised for not supporting Modi Patna, Sep 12 (IANS) Former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi has criticised senior leader L.K. Advani for not supporting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate. |
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BJP to soon announce PM candidate
New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) The BJP has made up its mind on who the party's prime ministerial nominee for the 2014 general elections would be and a formal announcement is just a few days away, informed sources said Wednesday. |
How did HIV+ woman die in hospital, asks Bihar panel
Patna, Sep 11 (IANS) The Bihar Human Rights Commission (BHRC) Wednesday sought a report from the state health department after an HIV-positive woman died in a government hospital here for want of proper treatment, officials said. |
'Manjhi-Mountain Man' role toughest: Nawazuddin
Mumbai, Sep 11 (IANS) For versatile actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who will be seen playing Dashrath Manjhi in Ketan Mehta's "Manjhi - The Mountain Man", it was the toughtest role of his career. |
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Murder, dacoity accused ruling JD(U) MLA surrenders after 13 years
Patna,(BiharTimes): The ruling Janata Dal (United) MLA from Chhatapur constituency in Supaul district, Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu, an accused and wanted by police in a 13-year-old case of murder and dacoity, surrendered in a Katihar court on Monday, a late report said. |
DGCA asks Bihar to upgrade flight safety at Patna airport
Patna,(BiharTimes): Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked the Bihar government to take urgent measures to upgrade flight safety at the Jaya Prakash Narayan International Airport in Patna or else it would be allowed to operate only small aircraft, which can carry up to 70 passengers. |
Decision on any alliance after Oct: Nitish
Patna,(BiharTimes): Though Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday made it clear that his party, the Janata Dal (United), would not return to its former partner, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he did not disclose who would be its next partner. |
Nitish’s concession on bungalows to ex-BJP ministers exposes his weakness
Patna,(BiharTimes): Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s statement made on Monday that the former BJP ministers could stay at their ministerial bungalows till they wish and that the issue should not be made a subject of dispute has come as a surprise as it suggests that there is no immediate plan to expand cabinet and induct new ministers. |
Administration takes U-turn, allots entire Gandhi Maidan for Hunkar Rally
Patna,(BiharTimes): After a day-long flip-flop––may be because of political compulsion––the Patna district magistrate N Saravana Kumar on Monday night announced that he had decided to allot the entire Gandhi Maidan to BJP for its October 27 Hunkar Rally, in which Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will be the chief guest. |
What's happening in Muzaffarnagar, centre asks UP
Lucknow, Sep 9 (IANS) Just hours after Governor B.L. Joshi sent a detailed report to New Delhi on the Muzaffarnagar conflagration, the union government Monday sought a report from Uttar Pradesh on the violence that has left at least 28 people dead. |
Lalu Prasad begins arguments in fodder scam case
Ranchi, Sep 9 (IANS) Arguments on behalf of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Monday began in a case related to multi-million-rupee lapses in Bihar animal husbandry department, popularly known as the fodder scam. |
'Suicide can be prevented on timely intervention'
New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) Majority of suicides can be prevented on timely intervention, any person with suicidal tendency can be easily convinced through dialogue and timely counselling, experts said Monday. |
Muzaffarnagar riots: Toll mounts, PM speaks to CM
Lucknow/New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) Shoot-at-sight orders were issued Monday in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district as the toll in communal clashes, one of the worst in the country in recent times, went up to 28. |
Bihar flood toll rises to 201
Patna, Sep 9 (IANS) The toll in the devastating floods in Bihar rose to 201 Monday, said an official of the state disaster management department. |
| Bihta farmers call off fast after assurance Patna,(BiharTimes): Farmers of several villages of Bihta block of the state capital, who were on indefinite fast since August 26 to demand adequate compensation for their land acquired for IIT-Patna, a mega industrial park and other institutes,on Sunday evening called off their stir following an appeal made by Patna district magistrate (DM) N Saravana Kumar. |
Bihar mid-day meal deaths: Principal's husband surrenders
Patna, Sep 9 (IANS) The husband of the principal of the Saran school in Bihar where 23 children died after eating contaminated food in July surrendered Monday before a Bihar court. He was sent to 14 days judicial custody, police said. |
A N Sinha Institute employees up in arms against director
Patna,(BiharTimes): The A N Sinha Institute of Social Studies Employees’ Association has sought the immediate removal of its director D M Diwakar, on the plea that his weak administrative capability led to deterioration in its standard and non-payment of salaries and pension. |
Work starts on IIT-Patna campus after a fortnight
Patna,(BiharTimes): Though the farmers have not yet given up their stir, construction work at the proposed site for the IIT Patna (IIT-P) near Amhara village in Bihta block, some 35 km from the state capital, started on Saturday |
Nitish unveils Sardar Patel’s statue in his home turf
Patna,(BiharTimes): When so much politics is going around Sardar Patel’s statue in Bihar and Gujarat Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday unveiled a life-size statue of the first home minister of India in Biharsharif and paid homage to him. |
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Bihar floods toll rises to 190
Patna, Sep 7 (IANS) The death toll in the devastating floods in Bihar rose to 190 Saturday even as waters are receding in all major rivers in the state, an official said |
Can Modi gate-crash into Lutyens' Delhi?
Since Narendra Modi is not known for his modesty, his disavowal of any interest in the prime minister's post has been seen as a show of annoyance or umbrage over what must appear to him to be an unconscionable delay by his party to nominate him. It has also been interpreted as a pressure tactic for expediting the process. |
Six killed in UP communal clashes, high alert in state
Lucknow, Sep 7 (IANS) Six people, including a television journalist, were killed Saturday following communal clashes in the state's Muzaffarnagar district, police said. High alert has been sounded across the state even as army and paramilitary forces were deployed in the area. |
Water-logging to continue as PMC lacks proper drainage system
Patna,(BiharTimes): Though Justice Navin Sinha and Justice Vikash Jain have repeatedly been pulling up the Patna Municipal Corporation for the rampant growth of apartments in lanes and by-lanes of Patna causing drainage and traffic problems a newspaper (Hindustan Times) on Thursday carried a photo of the waterlogged house of the first named judge of the Patna high court in Patliputra Colony. |
Parliament passes bill to negate SC order on jailed lawmakers
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) With the Lok Sabha's nod, parliament Friday passed the Representation of People (Amendment) Bill, 2013, which will negate a Supreme Court order banning politicians in jail and under police custody from contesting polls. |
Bihar floods receding, situation improving, says CM
Patna, Sep 6 (IANS) The flood waters are receding in all major rivers of Bihar, and the situation in the state is improving, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Friday. Officials have been asked to speed up relief and rescue operations, he added.
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Sushmita Banerjee's kin, Taslima sniff conspiracy behind killing
Kolkata, Sep 6 (IANS) Sushmita Banerjee's kin here Friday hinted at a probable conspiracy behind the author's killing in Afghanistan, asking whether the killers tied her in-laws to "actually protect them". Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin also cast doubts about the family's role. |
Shock over murder of Bengali author in Afghanistan
Kolkata, Sep 6 (IANS) The killing of Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, whose best selling book detailed the horrors she endured during Taliban rule in Afghanistan, has left literati in West Bengal "shocked" and disturbed at the "inhuman" incident. |
Flood situation improving in Bihar
Patna, Sep 6 (IANS) Flood waters are receding in all the major rivers of the state, including the Ganga, and the situation is improving, Bihar Disaster Management Minister Renu Kumari Kushwaha said Friday. |
Shock over murder of Bengali author in Afghanistan
Kolkata, Sep 6 (IANS) The killing of Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, whose best selling book detailed the horrors she endured during Taliban rule in Afghanistan, has left literati in West Bengal "shocked" and disturbed at the "inhuman" incident. |
Assets worth about Rs seven crores recovered after raids
Patna,(BiharTimes): In yet another raids against engineers the Economic Offences Unit of Bihar Police on Wednesday recovered cash and property worth over Rs 6.84 crore from the offices and homes of three engineers of the public health and engineering department (PHED). |
Justice Seema Ali Khan passes away
Patna,(BiharTimes): Justice Seema Ali Khan of Patna high court died of a long illness at Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon on Wednesday afternoon. She was 60 and was suffering from cancer. She is survived by husband, Safdar Ali Khan, a son who practices in the Supreme Court and a married daughter. |
Cloudburst may hit Bihar, warns weatherman
Patna, Sep 5 (IANS) It's bad news for millions of flood-affected people in Bihar. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of heavy rains and near cloud burst-like situation in the next few days that may create more devastation. |
Sushil Modi launches yet another special category attack on Nitish
Patna,(BiharTimes): Better late than never. The former Bihar deputy chief minister, Sushil Kumar Modi, has once again put the special category status in proper perspective and alleged that chief minister Nitish Kumar had been deliberately misinforming and confusing the people of the state.
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Bihar flood toll rises to 170
Patna, Sep 4 (IANS) The toll in devastating floods which left hundreds of thousands homeless in Bihar rose to 170 Wednesday, said an official. |
Sushil Modi equates Nitish with Lalu Patna,(BiharTimes): Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, who was till recently among the strongest champions of Bihar chief minister, on Tuesday equated Nitish Kumar with RJD president, Lalu Prasad Yadav. |
How to save fuel: Bihar officer sets example
Patna, Sep 4 (IANS) An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in Bihar is trying to set an example on how to save fuel -- by not using his official vehicle and going to work on foot or on a bicycle. |
Cabinet increases Bihar Contingency FundPatna,(BiharTimes): The Nitish cabinet on Tuesday enhanced the corpus of the Bihar Contingency Fund (BCF) tillMarch 30 next year from Rs 350 crore to Rs 1,800 crore to tackle the drought and flood situation in the state. |
Fund nod for parallel roads in four bordering districts
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bihar cabinet on Tuesday approved Rs 393.09 crore for the construction of parallel roads in four bordering districts of the state. These roads would be constructed under the NABARD loan scheme in Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Kishanganj and East Champaran. |
Patna is the biggest urban chaos:HC
Ironically, while Patnaites are keeping their fingers crossed and praying for better tomorrow a division bench of the Patna high court comprising Justice Navin Sinha and Justice Vikash Jain observed on Monday that “Patna is the biggest urban chaos and we have a peculiar privilege of having grown up in a totally chaotic manner.” |
Stent that melts: A boon for heart patients
Mumbai, Sep 4 (IANS) This week a Mumbai housewife underwent a revolutionary procedure to tackle blockages in the coronary arteries - using a 'bioresorbable scaffold',or what is known as a stent that melts away after doing its job. |
Parliament approves food security for 800 million Indians
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Parliamentary approval was Monday accorded to the landmark Food Security Bill, which gives right to subsidised grains to two-thirds of India's 1.2 billion population numbering around 800 million, the largest such scheme anywhere in the world. |
Nitish to unveil Sardar Patel’s statue much ahead of Gujarat CM
Patna,(BiharTimes): When BJP is planning to build a huge iron statue of the first Home Minister of India in Gujarat Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is to unveil a life-size statue of Sardar Patel on the campus of Sardar Patel Memorial College in Biharsharif, the district headquarters of his home district, Nalanda, on September 7. |
M K Das from Bihar takes over as DGP of Manipur
Patna,(BiharTimes): Mrinal Kanti Das, a 1977-batch IPS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre, took over as the 15th director general of police, Manipur, on Saturday evening after the retirement of Joy Kumar from the post. |
Student-teacher relationship has made for good cinema
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Teachers can be strict, they can be fun, and they can touch people's lives in many ways. Over the years, Bollywood films have captured such emotions in all their glory, with actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Naseeruddin Shah immortalising the varied avatars of teachers on big screen. |
MPs sense public mood, seek systemic changes to cleanse politics
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) With parliament set to enact a law to negate an apex court order on immediate disqualification of convicted lawmakers, MPs from smaller parties have spoken on the need for long-term changes to ensure that people with clean records contest elections. |
Battling Kala azar: Indian scientists overcoming drug resistance
Kolkata, Sep 3 (IANS) With drug resistance threatening the battle against kala azar, which afflicts 350 million in 88 countries, a group of Indian scientists has taken a giant step to develop a potential therapy by using tiny molecules present in the body. |
IIT land issue: Fasting Amhara farmers shifted to PMCH
Patna,(BiharTimes): Two farmers on fast-unto-death in Amhara village of Bihta block of Patna district, Sahdev Rai and Kaushal Kishore Tiwari were rushed to Patna Medical College and Hospital on Saturday night as their condition deteriorated. The condition of the remaining five are also not well. |
We are not in the habit of taking credit: Nitish
Patna,(BiharTimes): Without taking the name of former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, said on Monday that his government was not in the business of taking credit for anything, rather it believes in sharing it. |
Asaram sent to jail for 14 days
Jaipur, Sep 2 (IANS) A court in Rajasthan's Jodhpur city Monday sent spiritual leader Asaram Bapu, arrested for alleged sexual assault on a minor, to 14 days' judicial custody, a police official said. |
Hunt for Bhatkal's Bihar associate
Patna, Sep 2 (IANS) Raids were conducted Monday in Bihar's Samastipur district to nab a terror operative considered close to Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, police said. |
Bihar DGP rejects Sushil Modi’s allegations on Yasin Bhatkal’s arrest
Patna,(BiharTimes): A day after strong criticism of Bihar Police by the leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party, especially by the former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, the director general of police, Abhayanand refuted the charge that the Nitish government played vote bank politics by not taking the custody of Yasin Bhatkal and Asadullah Akhtar. |
 Tiger numbers go up in Bihar
Patna, Sep 2 (IANS) The number of tigers in Bihar's only tiger reserve has more than doubled in the last three years, an official said Monday. |
Over five million people hit by Bihar floods
Patna, Sep 1 (IANS) There was no let up in the fury of floods in over a dozen Bihar districts Sunday with major swollen rivers, including the Ganga, affecting more than five million people, officials said. |
Asaram held for sexual assault on minor
Indore, Sep 1 (IANS) Spiritual guru Asaram Babu was arrested here late Saturday night by Jodhpur police over allegation of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in his ashram, official sources said. |
Flood threat puts a question mark before govt plan on developing reclaimed land
Patna,(BiharTimes): As the threat of flood still looms large on Patna on Saturday river experts and activists have once again started questioning the Nitish government’s ambitious plan to undertake construction work in a big way on the reclaimed land. They are also expressing doubt over the construction of Rs 2,234 crore Ganga expressway along the bank of the river. |
Bhatkal brought to Delhi, remanded to 12 days' NIA custody
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) India's premier investigating agency, NIA, Friday got 12 days' custody of Yasin Bhatkal, one of the country's most wanted men and co-founder of Indian Mujahideen, to unravel the wide terrorist infrastructure he helped to build. |
NHRC notice to Bihar over I-Day attack on Dalits
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Friday issued notice to the Bihar government over an assault by upper caste men on Dalits for unfurling the national flag on Independence Day. The attack left one dead. |
Rupee slide a concern, but no capital controls: PM
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said while the sharp slide in the value of the rupee caused by external developments was a matter of concern, there was no question of capital controls and India would remain an open economy. |
Bodh Gaya blasts probe to be speeded up
Patna, Aug 30 (IANS) National Investigation Agency (NIA) chief Sharad Kumar has directed that the probe into the blasts at Bodh Gaya's Mahabodhi temple be speeded up after no headway was made even 50 days after the incident, a police officer said Friday. |
| Bihar court allows NIA to take Bhatkal to Delhi Patna, Aug 29 (IANS) A Bihar court Thursday granted the NIA three-day transit remand of Yasin Bhatkal, Indian Mujahideen co-founder wanted for a string of bombings, and another suspected terrorist Asadullah Akhtar for taking them to Patna and New Delhi. |
| Yasin Bhatkal's terror trail Arrested Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal is suspected to be involved in a number of lethal bombings and terror strikes of which the most prominent are: |
| 'Secret operation led to IM chief Bhatkal's arrest'Patna, Aug 29 (IANS) The operation to arrest Indian Mujahideen chief Yasin Bhatkal was so secret that even after his arrest only few top Bihar Police officers were informed and they too were not told about where he was being held for questioning, an officer said. |
IM chief Yasin Bhatkal arrested
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) Indian Mujahideen (IM) chief Yasin Bhatkal, wanted in bomb blasts across the country, was arrested from the India-Nepal border Wednesday night and is in the custody of Bihar Police, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Thursday. |
Asaram says Sonia, Rahul conspiring against him
Bhopal/Lucknow/New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) Asaram Bapu Thursday blamed Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi for his troubles even as the family of a girl who has accused the spiritual guru of sexual assault alleged that it was being pressured to withdraw the case. |
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Authorities warn of flood in Patna
Patna,(BiharTimes): The ghost of 1975 is haunting Patniates as water of Ganga entered parts of Patna Sadar, Danapur, Bakhtiyarpur, Maner, Fatuha, Barh, Athmalgola and Mokama blocks on Wednesday. |
Lok Sabha disrupted over rupee New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was repeatedly disrupted Thursday following protests by members demanding a statement from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the depreciation of rupee against the dollar.
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| Bihar to participate in Chinese investment fairPatna, Aug 28 (IANS) Bihar will participate at the China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) in September to promote investment in the state, state Industry Minister Renu Kumari Kushwaha said Wednesday. |
After Nalanda SP, district magistrate also shifted
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bihar government on Wednesday made senior IAS officer Deepak Kumar, officer on special duty in the Chief Minister’s Secretariat. He has returned from Central deputation recently. |
Bihar hikes salary of 2.5 lakh contract teachers
Patna, Aug 27 (IANS) There was good news for nearly 2.5 lakh contractual teachers in Bihar with the state cabinet Tuesday approving a salary hike of Rs.3,000 per month from September for them. |
| Bihar planning to alter industrial policyPatna,(BiharTimes): In spite of its efforts the Nitish Kumar government has now conceded that it has not been able to attract investments. Thus it is now planning to alter its industrial policy. |
HC seeks report from PMC on implementation of ban on high-rise buildings
Patna,(BiharTimes): A division bench of Justice Navin Sinha and Justice Vikash Jain of Patna High Court on Monday directed the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) to file a detailed report-cum-affidavit within a week on its order stopping construction of multi-storied buildings beyond permissible height. |
Farmers’ stir for more compensation for IIT land
Patna,(BiharTimes): Hundreds of landowners and farmers of Amhara village under Bihta block of the state capital on Monday forced the labourers to abandon the construction of building of IIT Patna, which is going on for the last few months. |
Bihar govt not to send farmers for Vibrant Gujarat 2013
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Nitish Kumar government has decided not to send farmers to attend the three-day Vibrant Gujarat 2013 Global Agricultural Summit, which will be organised by the Gujarat government between September 9 and 11. |
Dollar demand pushes rupee to record low
Mumbai, Aug 28 (IANS) High month-end demand from oil importers and private requirements of dollar pushed the partially-convertible Indian rupee to a new record low of 68.75 against the dollar Wednesday. |
Food portals open up options for train travellers
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Twenty five-year-old Vrinda Kapoor often travels by train to meet her parents in Mumbai. However, she is unable to eat the insipid train food and is forced to binge on chips and biscuits. But not anymore, thanks to food portals that deliver to her favourite chicken pizza at her seat, guaranteed hot and fresh.
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28 years on, betel nut pulled out of man's lung
Patna, Aug 28 (IANS) Seventy-five-year-old Krishna Kant Jha is now a relaxed man. After 28 years of suffering from chronic cough and regular bouts of fits, a piece of betel nut was found to be cause of his problems and was finally extricated from his lungs. |
Over two dozens IAS officers shifted
Patna,(BiharTimes): The state governmenton Monday transferred 27 IAS officials, including 13 district magistrates (DMs). This includes the district magistrates of Nawada, Saran, West Champaran and Khagaria where either communal or other types of violence took place or which witnessed tragedies. |
September premiere for 'Mango Girls' in US
Patna, Aug 27 (IANS) "Mango Girls", a documentary showcasing a one-of-its-kind tradition of planting fruit trees, including mango, to celebrate the birth of a girl child in Bihar's Dharhara village, will be premiered in New Hampshire, US, next month. |
Patna to get 18 more women autorickshaw drivers
Patna, Aug 27 (IANS) Encouraged by the success of over a dozen women autorickshaw drivers, who hit the roads in Patna 10 days ago, the Bihar government has given licences to 18 more women to drive the commercial vehicle, an official Tuesday said. |
Bring back Buddha’s begging bowl, demands Raghuvansh
Patna,(BiharTimes): Rashtriya Janata Dal MP from Vaishali, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, on Monday raised the demand for bringing back the begging bowl of Gautam Buddha from a museum in Kabul (Afghanistan) and install it at its “original” place, which falls in his parliamentary constituency in Bihar. |
Rupee slips to 66 against dollar, Sensex tanks over 600 points
Mumbai, Aug 27 (IANS) The Indian rupee slipped below the psychological level of 66 against the dollar Tuesday and the capital markets saw heavy selling by foreign funds as the government admitted there were domestic factors behind the currency crisis. |
Controversies affect my family: Priyanka Chopra
Mumbai, Aug 27 (IANS) Celebrities are no stranger to controversies, and Priyanka Chopra knows this. Having tasted her share of link-up rumours in the Hindi film industry, the actress admits that controversies do affect her family. |
Asaram Bapu denies molestation charges
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Spiritual guru Asaram Bapu Tuesday refuted allegations of molestation levelled at him by a 16-year old girl and asked why she had waited for five days before registering a complaint. |
Sonia Gandhi discharged from AIIMS
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who was admitted to the AIIMS here Monday night after she complained of uneasiness in the Lok Sabha, has been discharged from the hospital, a senior doctor said. |
Lok Sabha passes food security bill, Sonia taken ill
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) The Lok Sabha unanimously passed late Monday a path-breaking food security bill, which seeks to ensure subsidized food to 75 percent of the rural and half of the urban population, with Congress president Sonia Gandhi asserting it will "transform the lives of tens of millions". |
Preferring Sardar over Mahatma: BJP’s caste card in the name of Patel’s statue
Patna,(BiharTimes): To promote Narendra Modi’s name as the prime ministerial candidate deep into the interiors of Bihar the state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to collect 250 gm of used iron from farmers of all the villages of Bihar for the proposed Statue of Unity in memory of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel in Gujarat. |
A Bihar village that has no onion crisis
Patna, Aug 26 (IANS) The rising prices of onions may have brought tears to millions in India but one Bihar village is not bothered. Reason? No one in the village has consumed onion in several decades! |
Website launched to expose Narendra Modi’s tall claims
Patna,(BiharTimes): In over one decade of Narendra Modi’s rule Gujarat’s debt increased three-fold. When BJP came to power in the state in 1995 its debt was around Rs 10,000 crore. By 2001 when Modi came to power, the debt had shot up to Rs 45,301 crore. Now it is Rs 1.39 lakh crore. It is estimated that the debt will increase to Rs 2.07 lakh crore by 2015-2016. |
Over a dozen missing in Bihar boat accident
Patna, Aug 25 (IANS) At least a dozen people were missing when their boat capsized after colliding with another boat on the Ganga river near the Bihar capital Sunday, an official said here. |
Massive security foils 'yatra', hundreds arrested
Lucknow, Aug 25 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government put in place a massive security build-up across the state and foiled a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) bid to stage a religious event in Ayodhya Sunday. |
All five accused held for Mumbai gang rape
Mumbai/New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) The fifth suspect in the gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai was arrested Sunday in the Indian capital, hours after the fourth accused was held in Mumbai, ending a three-day hunt that followed a horrific sexual assault. |
Nitish-D Y Patil meet in Mumbai hospital surprises political observers
Patna,(BiharTimes): Only two days after the Khagaria train tragedy Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday called on the ailing state governor D Y Patil in a Mumbai Hospital. The governor was hospitalized because of some heart related problem and has now recovered and out of hospital. |
Bihar issues dengue alert
Patna, Aug 23 (IANS) The Bihar government issued a dengue alert Friday after over a dozen people were affected by the disease in Rohtas district, officials said. |
UP boy tops Bihar Public Service Commission exam
Patna,(BiharTimes): Talent has no boundary. Pradeep Bhuvneshwar Singh of Uttar Pradesh topped the 53rd to 55th Bihar Public Service Examination, which took place last year and whose interview was held in June 2013. |
Confident of forming UPA III: Sonia Gandhi
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS)Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will win the 2014 elections and virtually ruled out early Lok Sabha polls. |
Congress failed to see opposition game plan in parliament
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) The much-touted food security bill, the pet welfare legislation of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, could not be passed in the Lok Sabha this week because of poor floor management by the ruling party's managers and an aggressive opposition that cornered the government on the missing files relating to the allocation of coal blocks, political sources say. |
Nobody afraid of law, it's ineffective: Om Puri Kolkata, Aug 24 (IANS) Refusing to agree with certain politicians who blame the rise in crimes against women on migrants, veteran actor Om Puri Saturday pointed out that the country's legal system is "ineffective" and slow. |
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Recent developments spark off low-intensity wordy duel between Congress, JD(U)
Patna,(BiharTimes): For the first time after snapping of ties with the BJP on June 16 Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar gave such a strong statement against any Congress leader. He went on to call the Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Choudhary as fool when the latter blamed the lack of coordination between state administration and Railways and absence of road network for the Dhamara Ghat tragedy on August 19. |
Bihar awaits special status: Nitish
Patna, Aug 23 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Friday said he was eagerly awaiting the central government to accord special category status to the state. |
Five years on, Kosi flood probe yet to submit report
Patna, Aug 22 (IANS) Five years after a one-man commission was set up in September 2008 to probe the cause of an embankment breach in the Kosi river that triggered the worst floods in Bihar in 50 years, killing at least 250 and rendering nearly three million people homeless, it is yet to submit its report. The state says there is little it can do about this. |
Dhamara Ghat tragedy: Now tall claims on road sector gets exposed
Patna,(BiharTimes): Tragedies can happen anywhere––in primary school at Masrakh in Saran district or on rail track in Dhamara Ghat in Khagaria district. But it is the state government’s response, which is repeatedly exposing its tall claims, especially in the education, health and road sectors. |
Lightning kills 6 in Bihar
Patna, Aug 22 (IANS) At least six people, including five women, were killed Thursday in Bihar's Aurangabad district after being struck by lightning, an official said. |
Junior doctors go on strike
Patna,(BiharTimes): The junior doctors of Patna Medical College and Hospital struck work on Wednesday after a large number of people accompanying a patient with bullet injuries laid siege to central and emergency wards threatening the doctors on duty. |
JD(U) withdraws notice to Bhim, Narendra Singh
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Janata Dal (United) on Wednesday withdrew show cause notices issued to agriculture minister Narendra Singh and rural works minister Bhim Singh for their remarks made after the killing of five Indian soldiers on LoC on August 6 last. |
Nitish calls UPA minister a 'fool'
Patna, Aug 21 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday called Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury a "fool" for blaming the state government for the train tragedy that killed 28 people. |
Railway blames Bihar government for Dhamara Ghat accident
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday blamed the Bihar Government for not informing the Railways about such a big congregation near Dhamara Ghat station on Monday so that it could have taken some measures in advance and prevented the loss of 28 precious lives. |
Bihar train tragedy: Victims' kin blame lack of road
Patna, Aug 20 (IANS) A day after at least 28 Hindu pilgrims were mowed down by a speeding train in Bihar, the survivors and families of victims Tuesday blamed lack of road access to a temple near the accident site for the tragedy. |
Assets worth Rs five crore seized from engineers’ premises
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar Police on Wednesday simultaneously raided the premises of two state government engineers in Patna, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga and Vaishali districts and unearthed disproportionate assets worth around Rs five crore. |
Apex Court has lived up to constitutional mandate: Eminent jurists
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) A strong judiciary may sometimes be a thorn in the flesh of the government or the political class, but in the Indian context, it has – barring a short dark stint during emergency - acted as pillar of the Indian state which celebrated its 67 Independence Day Thursday, eminent jurists say. |
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The volatile journey of Indian rupee since independence
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) The Indian rupee, which was at par with the American currency at the time of independence in 1947, hit a record low of 61.80 against the dollar recently. This means the Indian currency has depreciated by almost 62 times against the greenback in the past 66 years. |
Curfew relaxed in Bihar town
Patna, Aug 15 (IANS) With no fresh communal clashes reported in the last two days and the situation returning to normal, curfew in Bihar's Nawada town was relaxed Thursday, police said. |
Need to improve delivery of mid-day meal scheme: PM
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday the implementation of the mid-day meal scheme needed to be improved to ensure that the tragedy in Bihar in which 23 schoolchildren died was not repeated "anywhere in the country". |
Bengal firm to distribute power in Gaya
Kolkata, Aug 14 (IANS) The Kolkata-headquartered DPSC has received a letter of intent for distribution and supply of electricity to Bihar's Gaya and adjoining areas, according to a company statement. |
| Curfew continues for third day in Bihar town Patna, Aug 14 (IANS) Indefinite curfew continued for the third day Wednesday in Bihar's Nawada, following clashes between two communities in the last five days that claimed two lives and left over six people injured, officials said. |
Mahabodhi temple security to cost Rs.5 mn monthly
Patna, Aug 14 (IANS) Bihar is set to spend Rs.5 million each month for the deployment of 261 Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel at the Mahabodhi temple at Bodh Gaya that was rocked by blasts July 7, officials said. |
Lalu’s sons not yet fully set to rise to the occasion
The Supreme Court’s rejection of RJD chief, Lalu Yadav’s plea to transfer the judge is likely to give a new shape to the politics of the state. The big question is: if the ruling came as a blow to him, who is going to be benefited by it.
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RJD legislator praises Narendra Modi
Patna, Aug 13 (IANS) Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal legislator Nawal Kishore Yadav Tuesday praised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and said he was better than Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the most popular leader in the country. |
PMC asks builders to display board at sites
Patna,(BiharTimes): Patna Municipal Corporation has asked the builders to get all the details of construction plans and display them before embarking on work. The details should include the approved map plan, the name of developers, contact numbers etc on display on the individual sites for anyone to see and verify. |
Fodder scam: SC dimisses Lalu Prasad's plea
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) In a major setback to RJD leader Lalu Prasad, the Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed his plea seeking transfer of his trial in the Bihar fodder scam case before another competent court. |
Martyrs matter: Another Bihar minister opens his big mouth
Patna,(BiharTimes): There is no impact of JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav’s show cause notices to two ministers in the Nitish cabinet as yet another minister has opened his big mouth on the issue of paying homage to soldiers killed in Poonch last Tuesday (August 6).
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Treason complaint against two Bihar ministers Patna, Aug 12 (IANS) A complaint alleging treason was filed against two Bihar ministers in a court here Monday for their remarks on last week's killing of five soldiers on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, a lawyer said. |
Two former BJP leaders join JD-U
Patna, Aug 12 (IANS) A fortnight after he quit the BJP, former spokesman Ram Kishore Singh Monday joined the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in the presence of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. |
Former Union minister passes away
Patna,(BiharTimes): Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader from Bihar, Devendra Prasad Yadav (not to confuse with the former Janata Dal minister with the same name), died at a hospital in New Delhi on Sunday night due to a heart ailment. He was 76 and is survived by four daughters and two sons. |
Police guns don't fire at Khudiram homage
Patna, Aug 11 (IANS) Bihar policemen's rifles failed to fire during a gun salute to revolutionary freedom fighter Khudiram Bose on his death anniversary Sunday, a police officer said. |
Pakistan violates ceasefire thrice
Jammu, Aug 12 (IANS) Pakistani troops violated the bilateral ceasefire thrice since Sunday, firing at Indian positions from across the border, a defence spokesman said Monday. |
Subramanian Swamy joins BJP
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has merged his party with the Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP chief Rajnath Singh said Sunday. |
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Shielding political parties from RTI to face resistance
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A government move to exempt political parties from the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act - which would have subjected their working and finances to public scrutiny - is likely to face stiff legal challenges. |
Success is relative: Deepika Padukone
Mumbai, Aug 11 (IANS) After debuting with a blockbuster in 2007, Deepika Padukone has hardly lost the taste of success. With "Race 2", "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani" and now "Chennai Express" striking gold at the box office this year |
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Bihar minister made hostage by martyr's villagers
Patna,(BiharTimes): The minister for science and technology, Gautam Singh, was on Friday held hostage for about two hours by people of Samhauta, the native village of martyr jawan Premnath Singh demanding that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visit their place. |
Robert Vadra involved in 3.5 lakh crore Gurgaon land deal, Ashok Khemka alleges Chandigarh, Aug 10 (IANS) Ashok Khemka,, the IAS officer who hit the headlines last year after he questioned a land deal involving Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, has alleged a land-licencing scam in Haryana to the tune of a whopping Rs.3.5 lakh crore during the regime of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. |
No internet connectivity in Jammu and KashmirSrinagar, Aug 11 (IANS) Internet connectivity and mobile phone services were snapped in Jammu and Kashmir Sunday. Officials unwilling to be quoted admitted that the measure was taken in a bid to prevent the spread of rumours. |
| 27 school-kids fall ill after taking mid-day mealPatna,(BiharTimes): Twenty-seven children of a government school were taken ill in Rampur Bakhra village under Lalganj block of Vaishali district of Bihar on Thursday after eating the mid-day meal. |
| Bihar Minister says people join army to die Patna (BiharTimes) Bihar rural works Minister Bhim Singh stirred a controversy today when he said that 'people join police and armed forces to become martyrs'. When he was asked by the reporters why didn't he visit Patna airport to receive the bodies of martyrs, visibly upset Singh questioned the reporter whether “his parents went there or not;. |
| Former Bihar minister Anoop Lal Yadav dies of old age Patna,(BiharTimes): Former Bihar minister and senior socialist leader Anoop Lal Yadav died on Friday at his home in Triveniganj in Supual district. Old age-related ailments were the cause of his death. He was 100 years old. |
| Bihar Chapter of IAS Association stands behind Durga Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bihar Chapter of IAS Officers Association met here on Thursday urged the UP government to immediately revoke suspension of SDM of Greater NOIDA, Durga Shakti Nagpal, and asked the UP government to refrain from resorting to suspension of officers on insufficient grounds. |
Bihar Minister says people join army to die Patna (BiharTimes) Bihar rural works Minister Bhim Singh stirred a controversy today when he said that 'people join police and armed forces to become martyrs'. When he was asked by the reporters why didn’t he visit Patna airport to receive the bodies of martyrs, visibly upset Singh questioned the reporter whether “his parents went there or not”.
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RJD, BJP flay absence of CM, Bihar ministers at airport
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Rashtriya Janata Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party have come down strongly on the absence of Bihar ministers and JD(U) leaders from the airport where the bodies of four solders martyred in Poonch sector were brought. |
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Bodies of four soldiers killed in Kashmir reach Patna
Patna, Aug 7 (IANS) The bodies of four soldiers of the Bihar Regiment who were killed in Jammu and Kashmir arrived here Wednesday night. Their funerals will take place at their respective villages Thursday, police said. |
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Soldier's wife refuses compensation
Patna, Aug 7 (IANS) The wife of one of the five soldiers killed in Kashmir Wednesday refused a compensation of Rs.10 lakh announced by the Bihar government and demanded "tough" action against Pakistan. |
Bihar mourns soldiers killed in Kashmir
Ara/Danapur (Bihar), Aug 7 (IANS) Shambu Saran Rai, one of the five soldiers killed in Kashmir, was to come home on a holiday in Bihar's Ara town this week. Now, his grief-stricken family awaits his body. |
And in Bihar CDPO suspended on charge of misbehaving with minister
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Nitish government on Tuesday suspended a Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) posted at Biddupur block in Vaishali district, Kavita Kumari, three weeks after she had a verbal duel with the visiting Social Welfare Minister, Parween Amanullah, on July 18. |
Five Indian soldiers killed in Kashmir, India-Pakistan ties hit
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Two months after Nawaz Sharif took charge in Islamabad, India-Pakistan relations took a new hit Tuesday after "heavily armed terrorists" ambushed an Indian army patrol in Jammu and Kashmir, killing five soldiers and triggering angry reactions in New Delhi. |
| SC reserves order on Lalu's plea New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday reserved its order on a plea by Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad seeking transfer of trial of a fodder scam against him to another trial court. |
22 mid-day meal survivors discharged
Patna, Aug 6 (IANS) Twenty-two of the 24 children who survived after consuming contaminated mid-day meal in their school in Bihar's Saran district last month, were discharged from hospital here Tuesday. |
Nine Hindu pilgrims killed in two accidents
Patna, Aug 6 (IANS) Nine Hindu pilgrims (Kanwariyas) were killed and nearly a dozen injured in two separate road accidents Tuesday in Bihar's Jamui and Saran districts, police said. |
CID to probe Bihar school water poisoning
Patna, Aug 5 (IANS) The Bihar government has asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe instances of water poisoning in schools in the state, the police said Monday. |
Bihar CM avoids comment on Durga Shakti Nagpal’s suspension Patna,(BiharTimes): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday refused to comment on suspension and chargesheeting of the Greater Noida SDM Durga Shakti Nagpal by the Uttar Pradesh government. The action was taken after she had ordered the demolition of wall of a make-shift mosque early on July 27 last. |
| Manish Jha bows out of 'Mountain Man' race Mumbai, Aug 5 (IANS) Showing rare grace and sincerity, filmmaker Manish Jha has decided to abandon plans for making a biopic on Dashrath Manjhi, the man who dug a roadway out of a mountain that separated his village in Bihar from the nearest hospital. |
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Drought situation more serious in Bihar: Nitish Kumar
Patna, Aug 4 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Sunday said the drought situation was more serious than the flood threat in the state and announced all help from his government to farmers to go ahead with the paddy cultivation.
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355 SAP jawans surrender arms in protest
Patna,(BiharTimes): In all 355 Special Auxiliary Police personnel posted in East Champaran surrendered their arms at the district headquarters in Motihari on Saturday by protesting alleged menial chores they were compelled to do despite being raised as a force to counter Maoists. |
JD-U invites Shatrughan Sinha to join party Patna, Aug 4 (IANS) Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Sunday invited BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha to join the party, a day after his BJP asked him to show restraint while praising Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as it was "harming the party's interest". |
CAG exposes widespread irregularities in water resources dept
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has highlighted serious irregularities in the water resources department, including injudicious use of funds by its officials for purchase of big and spacious vehicles for holding meetings on their tour. |
Maoists damage new police station building
Patna, Aug 4 (IANS) Maoists badly damaged a newly built building which was to become a police station in Bihar's Aurangabad district early Sunday to protest the killing of two of their leaders by a rival outfit.
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Bihar plans memorial for 23 dead students
Patna, Aug 3 (IANS) Bihar plans a memorial for the 23 children who died last month after eating a mid-day meal at a government school in Saran district, an official said Saturday. |
| BJP asks Shatrughan Sinha to show restraint New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha has been asked to show restraint while making comments in favour of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and those less than laudatory for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as these were harming the party's interest, party sources said. |
| Advani is the best PM candidate: Shatrughan Sinha New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Outspoken BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha has caused more embarrassment to his party, saying during a TV interview that senior leader L.K. Advani was best suited to be the party's prime ministerial candidate. |
Nitish government will fall under its own weight: Sushil Kumar Modi
Patna,(BiharTimes): A day after chief minister Nitish Kumar dismissed the speculation of cabinet expansion the former deputy chief minister and BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Saturday alleged that the JD(U) government is under threat of its own MLAs who are getting impatient. |
School-girl allegedly abducted from Patna Patna,(BiharTimes): A Class-VIII student of a private school, Sneha Bhattacharya, was on Friday allegedly kidnapped from Kunnu Lal Road, Mithapur, under Jakkanpur Police Station of Patna. |
Maoists blast railway track to enforce Bihar shutdown Patna, Aug 3 (IANS) Maoists blew up a railway track in Bihar's Gaya district to enforce a day-long strike called by them to protest the killing of two of their top-ranking leaders by a rival Maoist outfit, a railway official said Saturday. |
| CAG detects flaws in BIADA plot allotment Patna,(BiharTimes): The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has once again detected serious flaws in allotment of plots by Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA). |
| CAG report vindicates our stand: Siddiqui Patna,(BiharTimes): The leader of Rashtriya Janata Dal, Abdul Bari Siddiqui said on Friday that CAG report has vindicated his party’s stand on a number of scams in the state. |
Ninety per cent anganwadi centres in Bihar are without building: Report Patna,(BiharTimes): A report of the women and child development committee of Bihar Assembly has found that 90 per cent of the anganwadi centres have no building, toilet for children and arrangement for safe drinking water. Besides, most of the centres were running without anganwadi sevikas. |
Patna HC seeks explanation from officials on liquor shops in residential areas Patna,(BiharTimes): A division bench of Justice Navin Sinha and Justice Vikash Jain of the Patna high court on Thursday directed the assistant excise commissioner, district magistrate and senior SP, Patna, to appear before the court to explain how the liquor shops were being allowed to run in residential areas of Patna. |
CAG blasts Nitish govt for investing girls scheme funds in UTI
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has come down heavily on the Nitish government for what it calls ‘imprudent’ decision to invest Rs 268.71 crore of a scheme in a mutual fund (UTI) without setting up any monitoring mechanism thus exposing the scheme to market risks. |
CISF to guard Bodh Gaya shrine, says Shinde
New Delhi, August 1 (IANS) Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel will be deployed at the Maha Bodhi shrine in Bihar's Bodh Gaya town, union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Thursday. |
Day later, JNU student still critical
New Delhi, August 1 (IANS) A day after being attacked savagely with an axe by a besotted classmate who then committed suicide, JNU student Roshni remained in critical condition Thursday. |
JNU student still critical
New Delhi, August 1 (IANS) A day after being brutally attacked with an axe by a besotted classmate who later committed suicide at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here, Roshni, 22, remains critical, a police officer said Thursday. |
110 children taken ill after mid-day meal in Bihar
Patna, July 31 (IANS) At least 110 children were taken ill after eating mid-day meal in Bihar's Arwal and Jamui districts Wednesday in the second tragedy related to free school food in the state this month, officials said. |
Singapore Foreign Minister calls on Nitish
Patna,(BiharTimes): The visiting Singapore Foreign Minister K Shanmugam on Wednesday called on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday and discussed issues related to building of Nalanda University and ways to promote tourism. |
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| Bodh Gaya temple dome to be inlaid with gold Patna, August 1 (IANS) The dome of Bodh Gaya's 1,500-year old Mahabodhi temple, Buddhism's holiest shrine that was rocked by a string of bombings in July, will be inlaid with gold thanks to an offer made by a pilgrim, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Thursday. |
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