Bihar NEWS
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Centre sends additional forces to Bihar to rescue abducted cops
Sep 03(ANI): The Union Home Ministry on Friday dispatched another helicopter and additional paramilitary personnel to Bihar to assist the cops in locating the three policemen, who are still in the Maoists’ custody. The Bihar Government had sought 4,000 additional paramilitary forces from the Central Government to deal with the rising Maoist violence. It has [...]
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BJP delegation meets Chief Election Commissioner ahead of Bihar polls
Sep 03(ANI): A delegation of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders met the Chief Election Commissioner, S Y Quraishi, here on Friday ahead of the Bihar assembly elections. “The objective of this meeting with Chief Election Commissioner was pertaining to the security and paper back up of electronic voting machines (EVMs). After a decade of using [...]
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Education NEWS
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Bihar gives grant to Madrasas, Sanskrit schools
Patna, Aug 31 (PTI): Bihar government today decided to provide recognition and grant to 2459 madrasas for payment of salary to its teachers. Briefing reporters after the state cabinet meeting, Cabinet secretariat coordination department’s Princial Secretary Afzal Amanullah said Rs 160.20 lakh has been sanctioned by the state government for payment of salary to the [...]
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Nalanda univ bill passed
Aug 22 (Hindustan Times): Rajya Sabha on Saturday passed a bill to establish a transnational university at Nalanda in Bihar, once considered a seat of learning in ancient India. The university, to be set up under the guidance of an interim board, headed by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, proposes to attract students and faculty from [...]
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Famous Personality
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Aryabhata
Aryabhata (476–550 CE) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His most famous works are the Aryabhatiya (499 CE, when he was 23 years old) and the Arya-siddhanta. Aryabhata mentions in the Aryabhatiya that it was composed 3,600 years into the Kali Yuga, [...]
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Sher Shah Suri or Sher khan
Sher Shah Suri or Sher khan, was the founder of Sur dynasty in India. Born in 1486,he was the son of a jagirdar of Sasaram, Bihar. His original name was Farid. He left his home at the age of 15 and went to Jaunpur. There he studied Arabic and Persian languages. He had very good [...]
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Bhojpuri Cinema NEWS
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Ritu Pandey accuses Vansh Pathak for asking a compromise
An actress of Bhojpuri cinema who has done bit roles in more than a dozen films has accused a film director Vansh Pathak for repeatedly asking for a “compromise” otherwise Pathak threatens her to destroy her career. Ritu has lodged a case in Police station that ever since she got in touch with Vansh Pathak [...]
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Lahariya Loota Ae Raja Ji releasing on 20th August
Bhojpuri musical action comedy romantic movie Lahariya Loota Ae Raja Ji produced and directed by Rajkumar R Pandey is releasing on 20th August. This film has hit pair of super star Ravi Kishan and super actress Pakhi Hegde in the lead roles and is produced under the banner of Adi Shakti Entertainment and Sai Deep [...]
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Lucas Tete’s wife, daughters in state of shock
Patna, Sep 03(IANS): Slain policeman Lucas Tete’s wife Pyari and three grown up daughters fainted several times in shock on receiving the news that his bullet-riddled body was found in a forest in Bihar on Friday. Pyari Tete and her daughters fainted time and again after they were informed about Lucas’ body being found, a [...]
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Centre biased against Bihar
Patna, Sep 3 (PTI): Ruling BJP in Bihar today alleged that the Centre”s attitude towards tackling the problem relating to the growing menace of naxalism had always been biased and discriminatory. “The Centre has always been full of bias, non-cooperative and discriminatory in its attitude towards curbing Naxalites in Bihar,” BJP Vice President Kiran Ghai [...]
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Bihar seeks 4,000 troopers to fight Maoists
New Delhi, Sep 3(One India): Even as the hostage crisis continues to grind on, the Bihar government has sought 4,000 additional paramilitary personnel from the Centre to deal with the growing Maoist menace in the state. Official sources have revealed that the Home Ministry is currently examining the request for 40 companies, with 100 personnel [...]
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Bihar demands Rs 4000cr from state
Ranchi, Sept. 2 (PTI): Jharkhand might have to pay nearly Rs 4,000 crore to Bihar for the settlement of employees’ pension and state liabilities to government-run corporations. At a meeting convened by Union home secretary G.K. Pillai in Delhi yesterday, Bihar demanded about Rs 4,000 crore from Jharkhand, mainly to settle the pension liabilities of [...]
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Bihar HRD Secretary transferred
Patna, Sep 03(iGovernment Bureau): In a minor administrative reshuffle, the Bihar government transferred three IAS officers, including Human Resource Development (HRD) Secretary K K Pathak. According to an official notification issued by the General Administration Department, Pathak has been made Managing Director of Beltron. Pathak, a 1990-batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, was recently in [...]
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BJP National Executive meeting postponed: Naqvi
Sep 03 (PTI): BJP Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today announced that the party’s national executive meeting slated for September 18 and 19 in New Delhi has been postponed. The next date and venue of the meeting will be announced shortly, he told reporters here. The BJP national executive was scheduled to meet to chalk [...]
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Wife of killed Bihar cop inconsolable
Sep 02, (IANS): Rajni Devi, the wife of sub-inspector Abhay Kumar Yadav who was killed by Maoists Thursday, fainted several times and was inconsolable after being informed about her husband’s death. More or less similar was the condition of Yadav’s old mother, his mother-in-law and sister-in-law. His three minor children were in a state of [...]
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Fifteen mobile phones recovered from Bihar jail
Sep 02(IANS): Fifteen mobile phones were seized from inmates of a Bihar jail during a raid early Thursday, police said. Over a dozen mobile chargers, SIM cards and other objectionable items, including cash and gold jewellery, were also recovered from the prisoners of the Beur Central Jail here, police said. ‘Most of these items were [...]
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Woman killed, 22 injured in bus mishap in Bihar
Nawada, Sep 02(PTI): A woman was killed and 22 others injured, five them critically, when a bus overturned and fell into a road side gorge on national highway near Rajauli in Bihar’s Nawada district today, police said. The accident occurred when the driver of the bus on its way to Randhi in Jharkhand from Darbhanga [...]
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Left parties to contest 200 seats in Bihar
Patna, Sep 02(PTI): Left parties CPI, CPI(M) and CPI-ML (Liberation) today formally announced their decision to contest 200 of the 243 Assembly seats in alliance in Bihar where elections are due later this year. “The three Left parties have firmed up an alliance and decided to contest 200 of the 243 Assembly seats in Bihar,” [...]
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Naxals give 3rd deadline to free cops in Bihar
Patna, Sep 02(One India): A ray of hope has come to the Bihar government and more specially to families of the abducted cops who were given twice deadline for the release by the Maoists. Sources told to CNN-IBN that local discussions have initiated with the Maoists and the 3rd deadline for the safe release of [...]
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Two killed, eight injured in clash in Bihar
Chapra, Sep 02(PTI): Two persons were killed and eight others injured in a clash between two rival groups of the same community at Sarai Rajbara village in Saran district today, police said. The rival groups clashed with sharp edged weapons after a dispute over offering prayer at a place in the village, police said. Two [...]
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10 sentenced to RI in Bhagalpur riot case
Bhagalpur, Sep 02(PTI): A Bihar court has sentenced 10 persons to rigorous imprisonment for seven years for attacking a police party during Bhagalpur riots in 1989. The 2nd Additional District and Sessions judge Anil Kumar also slapped a fine of Rs 2,000 on each of them. The judge had on Tuesday acquitted 10 others in [...]
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Francis Induwar’s widow appeals to Maoists
Sep 02(IANS): The widow of Francis Induwar, the special branch inspector who was abducted and beheaded by Maoists last year, has appealed to the Leftwing rebels to free the four policemen taken hostage by them in Bihar. Two of the four abducted policemen belong to Jharkhand – Ehsan Khan, a resident of Mandar block of [...]
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BJP wants 20 seats from JD-U’s Bihar share
Sep 02(Deccan Chronicle): Preparatory seat-sharing talks between Bihar’s ruling allies, the JD(U) and the BJP, have faced a difficult roadblock thrown up by the delimitation exercise that has changed the socio-political configuration of many Assembly constituencies, making them unsuitable for the old caste-based formulas for victory. The BJP has demanded for itself 20 constituencies where [...]
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Security strengthened around Nitish Kumar’s residence
Patna, Sep 02(PTI): Security was further strengthened around the official residence of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday. “Security measures have been further tightened around the official bungalow of the chief minister,” a senior official told PTI while declining to give further details. The decision came following reports that Maoists had eliminated one of [...]
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Bihar transfers police officers
Sep 01(IANS): Bihar Wednesday transferred Lakhisarai Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Singh and Deputy Superintendent of Police Ramadhar Singh for irregularity and negligence during a gunfight with Maoists in which seven policemen were killed and four were taken hostage by rebels. ‘Singh was transferred in view of the growing anger against him among policemen in [...]
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Bihar polls: Setback for CPI(M), CPI
Sep 02(Business Standards): As the crisis of the CPI(M) and CPI deepens in West Bengal, they are fast losing their grip over poll-bound Bihar. Three top leaders of the two biggest constituents of the Left bloc today joined Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Subodh Roy – a CPI(M) central committee member and former Lok Sabha MP [...]
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US power major to invest in Bihar
Patna, Sep 01(PTI): Bringing good news to power crisis-plagued Bihar after majority of thermal power units fell on the Jharkhand side after the bifurcation in November 2000, US energy major AES Corporation has evinced interest in setting up a thermal power plant in the State. The AES Corporation has submitted a proposal to State Industrial [...]
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Train derails in Ghaziabad
Sep 02(TNN): Four bogies of the Mahabodhi Express, going from New Delhi to Gaya in Bihar, derailed in Ghaziabad at about 5.15pm on Wednesday. As a result, traffic on the New Delhi-Howrah track remained suspended until last reports on Wednesday night. But, there were no casualties. The derailment happened near the Chipiyana crossing. The derailment [...]
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Congress, BJP policies fomenting naxalism: Gowda
Sep 02(The Hindu): The former prime minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, on Wednesday blamed the socio-economic policies of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party for fomenting naxalism in the country. “Who is a naxal? The deprived and the downtrodden man of our country who is driven to the extremes by the denial of basic human [...]
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Fate of 4 police men hang in balance following expiry of ultimatum by Maoist
Sep 01 (AIR): In Bihar the fate of four policemen held hostage by maoist continues to hang in balance following expiry of ultimatum given by their captors this afternoon. AIR Patna correspondent reports that securitymen who are under custody of maoists have been identified as Sub Inspector Rupesh Kumar Sinha, Officer incharge Abhay Yadav, Jamadar [...]
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Track tormentors, doctor & family
Patna, Sep 1(The Telegraph): This Munnabhai is an MBBS for real. And also a train bandit. Ramanand Shukla, 73, is an unlikely head of one of Bihar’s most dreaded train robbery gangs, having passed his MBBS exam from Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) in 1972-73. He is now languishing in Sasaram district jail, facing [...]
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Bihar to intensify anti-Maoist operation despite ultimatum
Aug 31(PTI): Bihar government on Tuesday said it would further intensify anti-Naxal operations and searches for the four abducted policemen, even as Maoists set an ultimatum to release their eight jailed cadres by Wednesday failing which they would kill all the captives. “I want to clarify at this stage that we will further intensify the [...]
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RJD threatens to file defamation case against Bihar deputy CM
Aug 31(PTI): Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD) today threatned to file a defamation case against Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi for launching a ‘vilification campaign’ against its president Lalu Prasad to gain political mileage. RJD spokespersons, Shakeel Ahmed Khan and Ramkirpal Yadav, claimed that the slogan attributed by Modi to Prasad towipe out ‘Bhura Bal’ [...]
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Maoists release kidnapped Bihar government officer
Aug 31(ANI): Maoists set Block Development Officer (BDO) Manoj Kumar Singh free on Tuesday, two days after his abduction from Bihar’s Sheohar District where he had gone on an official visit. Tariyani Block Development Officer Singh reached his home in Muzaffarpur at around 11 a.m. today. “He is in a state of nervousness and has [...]
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Rahul to kick off Bihar poll campaign on Sept 4
Aug 31(Hindustan Times): The battle for Bihar is set to hot up with Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi kicking off the party’s poll campaign with rallies at Saharsa and Samastipur on September 4. After Uttar Pradesh, Gandhi is now keen on resurrecting the Congress in another Hindi heartland state of Bihar where it has been [...]
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One million affected by floods in Bihar, 39 die
Patna, Aug 31 (PTI) Around one million people continue to reel under the impact of recent floods in eight districts of Bihar where 39 people have so far died, while there is no let up in the situation with major rivers in the spate. According to Disaster Management Department Control room’s bulletin issued today, the [...]
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Dengue cases reported in Bihar’s Begusarai district
Begusarai, Aug 31 (PTI): A person identified as Subodh Kumar of Hemra village of Bihar’s Begusarai district has died of dengue. Kumar who was hospitalised at a private nursing home was found to be suffering from the disease after blood test conducted at a private patholgy Centre here confirmed it. Kumar, who was referred to PMCH [...]
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Maoists kill 10 cops in Bihar gunbattle
Aug 31(Indian Express): At least 10 policemen were killed and several injured in a fierce firefight with Maoists on Sunday in the Kajra hill jungles, which stretches for about 40 km till Jamui, the state police confirmed on Monday. Among those killed was Kawaiya outpost in-charge Phulan Yadav, who was leading the anti-Naxalite operation. There [...]
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‘Cursed’ by the rain god, Bihar farmers at the mercy of mukhiyas for subsidy
Aug 30 (Indian Express): Brijnandan Yadav and his three farmer brothers cannot thank god enough as good rains a few days ago have helped them sow paddy in five additional bighas of land that could have otherwise remained uncultivated. Brijnandan, farmer from East Bedhna panchayat under Barh block, has to provide for his joint family [...]
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COMPFED gears up for another ‘white revolution’
Patna, Aug 30(TNN): The Bihar State Co-operative Milk Producers Federation Ltd. (COMPFED) is gearing up to launch yet another “white revolution” in the state. Towards this end, its top managers gathered at Chandragupt Institute of Management, Patna (CIMP) here on Sunday for a day-long brainstorming session to discuss strategy for procurement and marketing of milk [...]
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Tantia Constructions stock up on receiving contract
Aug 31(India Infoline News Service /): The stock has hit a high of Rs87 and a low of Rs82. Shares of Tantia Constructions have gone up 3% after the company has received a project from Executive Engineer, Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojna (RSVY), CPWD, Gaya for ‘Development of State Highways in the State of Bihar’ for [...]
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Ayodhya may take centrestage again
Aug 31(Express News Service): Wary of dangerous implications of forthcoming Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhumi verdict, the Centre has sounded alert to states and Union Territories, especially UP, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi. In its advisory, the Home Ministry has said that the verdict is likely to evoke sharp reactions depending on any of [...]
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Maoists kill 8 cops, loot 35 rifles in Bihar
Patna, Aug 30(TNS):At least eight policemen have been killed and 10 injured during a nightlong fierce gun battle with the armed guerillas of CPI (Maoists), an outlawed naxal outfit, on a hilltop (Ramtalnagar) under the Kajra police station of Bihar’s Lakhisarai district yesterday. Three cops, comprising the police team, which had gone to the hilltop [...]
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No upper caste leader can become Bihar CM: Lalu
Patna, Aug 29(PTI): Claiming to have been the catalyst for social justice in Bihar, RJD president Lalu Prasad today said no leader from forward communities could dream of becoming the chief minister of the state. At the same time added that he stood for the welfare of all communities and had even proposed 10 per [...]
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Woman Maoist leader of Bihar arrested in Kolkata
Aug 29 (The Hindu): A prominent woman Maoist leader from Bihar was arrested from a slum area here by Bihar Police and Kolkata Special Task Force (STF) personnel. Chameli Das was wanted in connection with at least seven cases, including the blowing up of Abeli SDO office in Kharagpur in 2008 and killing of a [...]
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Five police personnel feared killed in Bihar encounter
Patna, Aug 29(The Hindu): An encounter broke out between the police and Naxalites in the Sheetalkorani hills in Lakhisarai district of Bihar on Sunday and police sources at the encounter spot told TheHindu that at least five State Auxiliary Police (SAP) personnel were killed. The sources said it was hard to estimate the number of [...]
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Maoists torch earth-moving machine in Bihar village
Aug 29(ANI): Maoist rebels set ablaze an earthmoving machine of a road construction company at Sonho village in Bihar’s Chapra district on Saturday night. The Maoists resorted to arson since the engineers and other staff refused to pay two percent levy demanded by them. Reportedly, the armed rebels numbering around 400 attacked the office of [...]
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Maoists kidnap BDO in Bihar
Sheohar, Aug 29(PTI): A block development officer was kidnapped by armed Maoists from Ladhoura village in Bihar’s naxal-hit Sheohar district on Sunday. Manoj Singh had gone to the village in his official vehicle this noon to supervise preparation of EPIC cards, state Director General of Police Neelmani said in Patna. The vehicle was intercepted by [...]
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Trader shot dead, assailant drowns
Darbhanga, Aug 29 (PTI): A trader was shot dead and his motorcyle looted by an assailant, who subsequently was beaten up by locals and in the process fell into a pond and drowned at Samaila village in Bihar’s Darbhanga district, police said today. The assailant gunned down 25 year-old trader Amir Niazi, who was on [...]
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Illegal stock of medicines seized
Varanasi, Aug 29(TNN): Illegally stocked medicines worth over Rs 3 lakh were recovered by a team of officials from a house in Jalalipura area under Jaitpura police station on Sunday. Police arrested one person in this connection while two other accused managed to escape. According to city magistrate Shrinath Shukla, acting on a tip-off, he, [...]
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CM condoles death of journalist
Patna, Aug 29 (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today expressed profound shock and grief at the demise of prominent journalist P K Krupakarn and declared state funeral in his respect. “His death is a personal loss for me…His contribution in the field of journalism will always be remembered”, Kumar said in his condolence message. [...]
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Lakhisarai: Encounter on between Naxals, security forces
Lakhisarai, Aug 29(NDTV Corresp): A fierce encounter is on between the security forces and Naxals in Poona-Dih village in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district. According to reports, 11 jawans have been injured in the encounter. They have been brought to the Sadar Hospital in Lakhisarai. The Naxals attacked search parties of the police comprising Bihar Military Police, [...]
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Bihar Youth Congress workers block roads, railways
Patna, Aug 28(PTI): Bihar Youth Congress activists blocked roads and railway tracks at some places to enforce its chakka jam programme to press for an independent inquiry into alleged irregularities in utilisation of funds meant for development of the state, officials said. Hundreds of youths, led by party’s state youth wing chief Lalan Kumar, brought [...]
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Seven from Bihar held for illegal arms supply
Aug 29(Express News Service): Acting on a tip-off about inter-state gangs smuggling illegal weapons in Gujarat, the state ATS arrested seven persons from Swaminarayan Circle Ring Road near Ahmedabad on Friday night. Those arrested are Dharmendra Singh Rajput, Kishan Gupta, Gangasagar Giri, Varun Rai Yadav, Arvind Singh Rajput, Vinaykumar Rajput and Rana Singh Rajput, all [...]
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Babri judgment: Emotive issue for BJP ahead of polls
Patna, Aug 29(TNN): With the start of the election process for holding Bihar assembly polls is round the corner, the state BJP is gleeful about the emergence of an emotive issue like Ramjanmabhoomi controversy, the court judgment on which is expected next month. The judgment is expected to clear doubts about a few aspects of [...]
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Huge cache of explosives seized in Bihar
Munger, Aug 28(PTI): A huge cache of explosives, including 2,500 kg ammonium nitrate, 5000 dynamites, 300 detonators, besides ten bundles of fuse wires, was seized by police from Bakarpur in Bihar’s Munger town on Saturday, police said. On a tip-off, a police team led by Superintendent of Police M Sunil Naik Naik raided a house [...]
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FM radio stations in Bihar to counter Nepal’s FM
Patna, Aug 28(IANS): To counter the increasing popularity of Nepal’s FM radio services in Bihar villages, three FM radio relay centres will be set up in districts along the Indo-Nepal border in the state, an official said on Saturday. ‘The FM radio relay centres would be set up at Bettiah, Motihari and Madhubani districts by [...]
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Paswan open to Muslim candidate for deputy chief ministership
Patna, Aug 29 (PTI): Under attack from opposition for projecting his brother and state LJP president Pashupati Kumar Paras as candidate for deputy chief ministership, LJP supremo Ram Vilas Paswan has said, he was open to appointment of a suitable candidate from the Muslim community to hold the post in the event of the RJD-LJP [...]
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Paswan seeks ban on RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal
Patna, Aug 29(TNN): Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday demanded immediate ban on RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal following remarks of Union home minister P Chidambaram about the saffron terror threat. Paswan urged PM Manmohan Singh to ban these organisations as they were involved in several incidents of violence and explosions [...]
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Two new CRPF recruits die of cardiac arrest during training in Allahabad
Aug 29(Express News Service): Two of the fresh recruits of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) group centre at Allahabad died of cardiac arrest during training in Phaphamau area on Saturday. The public relations officer (PRO), CRPF Delhi Headquarters, Ajay Chaturvedi, told The Indian Express that Surjit Rai of Vaishali district in Bihar and Sunil [...]
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Civil, police personnel trapped in Bihar rescued
Aug 26(PTI): Civil and police personnel trapped at Raibari Mahua in Bihar’s West Champaran district due to flash floods caused by the swollen Gandak river were on Wednesday rescued by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel and taken to safer places. “The NDRF teams from Patna and Gopalganj evacuated the policemen and civil officials [...]
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