Archive for May, 2010
Saag Recipe
ingredeints 1 inch cube of ginger, cut into chunks 6 cloves garlic, peeled 1/2 tsp garam masala* 1/4 cup water + more water 20 oz of spinach, fresh or frozen, finely chopped (if frozen, thaw and squeeze out excess water) 3/4 cup – 1 cup mock cream (recipe follows) Process ginger, garlic and 1/4 [...]
Janata Dal (United) drops two sitting MLCs
The Bihar NEWS, May 30: Janata Dal (United) has put up new faces for the biennial election to the Bihar Legislative Council and denied renomination to its two retiring members. The election for seven seats is scheduled for June 10. Incidentally, Janata Dal United dropped Council deputy chairman Birendra Kumar Choudhary. Those dropped have been [...]
Central team to inspect Gandhi Setu before giving nod for repair work
The Bihar NEWS, May 30: A team of experts from the Union ministry of surface transport will soon inspect the Mahatma Gandhi Setu, which links North and South Bihar between Patna and Hajipur. A V Sinha, the director general-cum-special secretary, ministry of surface transport, who met the road construction minister of Bihar, Prem Kumar, on [...]
Buses that never hit Bihar road
The Bihar NEWS, May 30: Thanks to the lethargic style of functioning of the Bihar government the Centre has recently withdrawn the financial assistance it had extended to tone up the urban transport system in Patna and Gaya-Bodh Gaya, the two cities selected under the Jawaharlal Urban Renewal Mission, for this purpose. The money was [...]
Bihar Congress office-bearers offer to quit
The Bihar NEWS, May 30: Several office-bearers of Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee have offered to resign from the party in protest against the alleged arbitrary constitution of the PCC. Regretting that the state party unit is in a deplorable condition they, in a letter to the party president, Sonia Gandhi, alleged, that it has been [...]
Monks upset over Dalai Lama not raising temple issue
Patna, May 28 (IANS) Buddhist monks in Bihar are disappointed that Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama did not raise the demand for Buddhist control over the management of the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya during his visit here. “As usual, the Dalai Lama did not raise the core issue of Buddhist control over the [...]
Electronic key causes RJD MP to delay Patil’s flight in China
Beijing/Luoyang, May 29 (IANS) The inability of Indian MP Raghuvansh Prasad Singh to handle an electronic key to the executive floor and his room at the luxury hotel where he was staying delayed President Pratibha Patil’s flight from Beijing to Luoyang by 20 minutes Saturday. The former minister was late in boarding the special Chinese [...]
Dalai Lama inaugurates Buddha Smriti Park in Patna
Patna, May 27 : Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Thursday inaugurated the Buddha Smriti Park, a sprawling 22 acre park dedicated to Lord Buddha in the heart of the city, on the occasion of Buddha Purnima. The inauguration of the Buddha memorial park was an international event attended by delegations from four predominantly Buddhist [...]
Lalu asks GoM to take quick decision on caste-based census
The Bihar NEWS, May 27:: Hours after the Union government referred the issue of caste-based census to the Group of Ministers the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief, Lalu Prasasd Yadav, threatened to launch an agitation if the GoM delayed sending a recommendation on the caste-based census to the Union Cabinet. Talking to the newsmen here on [...]
Buddha Purnima celebrated at Bodh Gaya
Bodh Gaya (Bihar), May 27 (IANS) Hundreds of Buddhists from across the world Thursday celebrated Buddha Purnima, the day Lord Buddha was born, at Bodh Gaya in Bihar where he attained enlightenment. Bodh Gaya temple management committee organised a function to celebrate the 2,554th Buddha Jayanti at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, Buddhism’s holiest [...]
Bihari Vyanjan, a book on cuisine, released
The Bihar NEWS, May 26:: Law minister Ramnath Thakur said that it was regrettable that Indian traditional cuisine, famous for its healthy and delicious qualities, was facing extinction. Releasing a book Bihari Vyanjan, written by Rekha Arun Kumar he said “around 20 years back, our meals consisted of delicacies, which were both nutritious and tasty. [...]
Hat trick for Bihar’s Super 30, all students crack IIT
Patna, May 26 (IANS) All 30 students of Super 30, a free coaching centre in Bihar, have cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) for the third consecutive year, the institute announced Wednesday. “We are really upbeat and celebrating the 100 percent success for the third consecutive year as all 30 [...]
Fate of many Bihar rail projects uncertain
The Bihar NEWS, May 26: Bihar seems to be suffering at the hands of Indian Railways. Though the state chief minister and former railway minister, Nitish Kumar, is all praise for Mamata Banerjee the truth is that the fate of 13 projects taken up during the reign of Lalu Yadav are hanging in balance. This [...]
Bihar govt asks master planner to modify Vision 2020
The Bihar NEWS, May 26: The Bihar government has asked the master planner Abhijit Sen to modify the Vision 2020 Plan for Patna in such a way that the landscape and waterscape on Gangetic land of the state capital could be developed. The step has been taken by the urban development department following a directive [...]
Plane takes ‘hard’ landing at Patna airport, passengers panicked
The Bihar NEWS, May 25: All the 139 passengers and crew members of the Air India IC-415 took a sigh of relief in the wee hours of Monday when the plane in which they were travelling descended to the altitude of 400 metres and then suddenly took full throttle and did a ‘go around’ before [...]
Theft in Samridhi office, police yet to take action
The Bihar NEWS, May 25: Thieves broke into the office of Samridhi in Ekangarsarai block of Nalanda district on Sunday and decamped with computer and other goods from there. Samridhi is an organization run by IIM pass-out Kaushlendra to promote horticulture farming and its marketing in Bihar. Though he made investment in the state after [...]
Bihar to gift sweet fruits to Delhi VIPs
Patna, May 25 (IANS) Bihar will gift baskets of luscious litchis and special mangoes this summer to hundreds of very important people (VIPs) in New Delhi, officials said Tuesday. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s government has decided this year again to gift baskets of Shahi (royal) litchis and special Zardalu mangoes to important people in New [...]
Rights panel seeks reply in congenital blindness cases
Patna, May 25 (IANS) At a time when the Bihar government is in a dilemma over 28 cases of congenital blindness which have been reported in a span of a few months in Bhojpur district, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the state government to submit a report on this, officials said Tuesday. [...]
Rajdhani Express derails in Bihar
Patna, May 25 (IANS) At least 14 wagons of the New Delhi-Guwahati Rajdhani Express derailed in Bihar, police said Tuesday. The incident occurred Tuesday morning and no injuries were reported. According to police, 14 wagons of the Rajdhani Express derailed between Nawgachia and Kharik railway station in Katihar district, about 200 km from here. A [...]
Janata Dal (United), BJP may exchange candidates for assembly poll
The Bihar NEWS, May 25: The Janata Dal (United) national president, Sharad Yadav, said that his party and the BJP may swap some of the seats for the coming assembly election in Bihar. Talking to the newsmen at Sahara on Sunday he said that the formula for exchanging seats would be worked out after discussion [...]
Nalanda girl tops again in Bihar Board exam
The Bihar NEWS, May 25: Like last year the topper of the Class-X Bihar School Examination Board once again hailed from Nalanda, the home district of the chief minister, Nitish Kumar and human resources development minister, Hari Narayan Singh. Five of the six top candidates are girls. What is more, like the first topper, Anupam [...]
IMA Bihar to oppose Centre’s move to dissolve MCI
The Bihar NEWS, May 23: The Bihar Chapter of the Indian Medical Association has unanimously decided to oppose what it said the Centre’s “undemocratic” move of dissolving the Medical Council of India. The IMA also decided to bring all associations and federations of medical practitioners across the country on one platform and take the [...]
Aryabhatt University running from VC’s bedroom
The Bihar NEWS, May 23: The name sounds impressive: Aryabhatt Knowledge University. The objective too is novel. It would serve as a regulatory body for maintaining academic standards in all the technical institutions of the state. All the technical institutions would be affiliated to it. But if a Times of India report is to be [...]
B N College Principal arrested, released
The Bihar NEWS, May 23: The Patna Police on Thursday night released the arrested principal of B N College, Rajkishore Prasad, on bail. He was arrested earlier on the same day by the Pirbahore police on alleged charge of assaulting a reporter of Maurya TV, a private news channel, Irfan Alam, when he went to [...]
Maoists kill five people in Bihar
Patna, May 22 (IANS) Five people have been shot dead by Maoist guerrillas in a village in Bihar’s Sheohar district, police said Saturday. Nearly 100 armed Maoists stormed Ramvan village in Sheohar, about 200 km from here, late Friday night and killed five people and set fire to around a dozen shops in the village [...]
Plan panel opposes cash transfer in place of foodgrains distribution
The Bihar NEWS, May 22: The member of the Planning Commission, Prof Abhijit Sen, has disapproved the Nitish Kumar government’s proposal for cash transfer instead of distribution of foodgrains through PDS to those living below the pverty line. He said that cash transfer can never be a substitute to foodgrains. What is the guarantee that [...]
Patna High Court allows screening of Kites in Bihar
The Bihar NEWS, May 22: Justice Navaniti Prasad Singh of the Patna High Court on Friday allowed the screening of Hindi film Kites after staying an order of a subordinate court in Sitamarhi district of Bihar. The court allowed the screening of the film after it admitted a writ petition filed by M/s Film Craft [...]
Two men held with explosives
Patna, May 21 (IANS) Two people were arrested Friday with a huge consignment of explosives from Bihar’s Rohtas district, police said. About 40 quintals of ammonium nitrate packed in 80 sacks and 300 detonators were recovered from the arrested men from Amartalab hill area. A police officer said the men were suspected to have links [...]
RJD seeks governor’s directive to lift censorship in Bihar
The Bihar NEWS, May 21: A six-member delegation of Rashtriya Janata Dal called on the Bihar governor Devanand Konwar and requested him to direct the state government to lift “undeclared censorship on the media.” Led by its state president Abdul Bari Siddiqui and deputy leader in the state assembly Shakeel Ahmed Khan the delegation called [...]
Veteran Gandhian Acharya Rammurthy passes away
The Bihar NEWS, May 21: Acharya Rammurthy, a veteran Gandhian and a close associate of Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash Narayan died at Indira Gandhi Institute of Cardiology here on Thursday after protracted illness. He was 98. As a staunch follower of Mahatma Gandhi he took part in the freedom movement. He also played an important [...]
Lalu denies he justified civilian killings by Maoists
The Bihar NEWS, May 21: Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad on Friday denied that he had ever justified the killing of civilians by the Maoists. He said that Maoists did not target the common people, except those who “spied” on the outfit. Talking to reporters he said the Maoists never target common people as [...]
Ratan Kumar Sinha first Bihari to become BARC director
The Bihar NEWS, May 20: Dr Ratan Kumar Sinha, took over as Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, on May 19 at a simple ceremony there. He is the 10th director of BARC and first person from Bihar to reach this post. Dr Sinha graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Patna University in 1972. He [...]
Irfan back from US, Sammaan to make 1.5 million rickshaws in three years
The Bihar NEWS, May 20: C K Prahlad inspired “Pedaling Progress, Pedalling Success”, the flagship project of Sammaan Foundation for the rickshaw operators, has drawn accolades across the United States. The entrepreneurial spirit of the Rickshaw Operator was represented by Irfan Alam of Begusarai district in Bihar, founder chairman of Sammaan Foundation, at the Presidential [...]
Maoists blast rail track, torch diesel tankers on goods train
Patna, May 20 (IANS) At least 15 diesel tankers caught fire when suspected Maoists derailed a goods train by blasting the railway track and then set afire one of the tankers in Bihar’s Motihari district, a railway official said Thursday. The Maoists targeted the diesel tankers on the goods train between Jeevdhara and Pipra railway [...]
10 imprisoned on false charges to get compensation
Patna, May 20 (IANS) The Bihar Human Rights Commission has directed the government to pay 10 people, jailed on false charges of murder and kidnapping, compensation of Rs.40,000 each. Commission chairman, Justice (retired) S.N. Jha, Thursday also recommended appropriate action be initiated against officials responsible for their wrongful confinement. The order came after a senior [...]
Independent Bihar MLA to tour entire state on chopper for six months
The Bihar NEWS, May 19: Sounds somewhat amazing. The Independent MLA from Dumraon, Daddan Yadav, alias Daddan Pahalwan, has hired a helicopter to, in his own words, “tour each and every panchayat of the state till November end”, that is, end of assembly election. Before launching his tour he told mediapersons on Wednesday that he [...]
Three DMs among 207 officers fined under RTI Act in 2009
The Bihar NEWS, May 19: Three district magistrates and five ADMs were among the 207 officers against whom fines were imposed by Bihar Information Commission (BIC) in 2009. The fines were imposed as they failed to provide relevant details or provided incorrect information to the applicants who had sought information under RTI. According to BIC [...]
Divide Congress fails to capitalize on Rahul’s visit
The Bihar NEWS, May 19: When the Janata Dal United-BJP combine in Bihar has gone on the election mode and RJD-LJP alliance showing no sign of breaking up it is the Bihar unit of the Congress Party, which seems to be least prepared for the poll. The open revolt by almost all the party MLAs [...]
Varsity teachers to retire on 62
The Bihar NEWS, May 19: A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Mihir Kumar Jha of the Patna High Court on Tuesday set aside the September 26 verdict of single judge that had directed the state government to increase the retirement age of college and university teachers from 62 to 65 years. [...]
Rabri Devi gets bail for abusive remarks
Patna, May 18 (IANS) A Bihar court Tuesday granted bail to former chief minister Rabri Devi for allegedly abusing Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at a public rally. The Chief Judicial Magistrate in Chapra district, about 100 km from here, granted the bail. Earlier this month, the court issued a non-bailable warrant against Rabri Devi, wife [...]
Maoist strike begins in Bihar
Patna, May 18 : A two-day Maoist strike began in Bihar amid tight security, police said Tuesday. Additional Director General of Police P.K. Thakur said that no violence was reported in the state after Maoist guerrillas began their strike at midnight Monday. “All the district superintendents of police have been directed to intensify patrolling and [...]
Three get life term for raping Japanese woman
Patna, May 17: A special court in Bihar Monday sentenced three men to life imprisonment for raping a 25-year-old Japanese woman near Bodh Gaya, just 26 days after it first started hearing the case. Gaya District and Sessions Judge Jayant Kumar Sen also imposed a Rs.10,000 fine on each of them, prosecution lawyer Vimal Kishor [...]
Stampede survivors still look for lost kin, belongings
New Delhi, May 17 : A day after a stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station left two people dead and several injured, many survivors were Monday still waiting at the station, looking for missing family members or lost belongings. “I lost my phone somewhere, I can’t find my husband. I am waiting here for [...]
Two die in New Delhi station stampede
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) A woman and a boy were killed and several people injured Sunday in a stampede at the New Delhi railway station, doctors said. “Two people were brought dead while seven injured people are undergoing treatment,” Amit Banerjee, medical superintendent of the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital, told IANS. He said [...]
Nitish lays foundation stone of new IGIC building
The Bihar NEWS, May 16: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday laid the foundation stone of 10-storied new building of Indira Gandhi Institute of Cardiology in Patna. The Rs 39.50 crore project will come up on the IGIC campus and will have capacity of 250 beds. On completion of the new complex the IGIC will [...]
Bihar’s Super 30 in Time Magazine best list
Patna, May 14 : Super 30, Bihar’s free coaching centre which helps economically backward students crack the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), has been selected by The Time Magazine in the list of The Best of Asia 2010. “It is a matter of great pleasure that the Time Magazine has included our school [...]
Former vice president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat dead
Jaipur, May 15 (IANS) Former vice president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat died at a hospital here Saturday, Bharatiya Janata Party officials said. He was 86. Shekhawat was admitted to the Sawai Man Singh Hospital here Thursday after he complained of breathing problems. He was declared dead at 11.10 a.m., hospital sources said. He is survived by [...]
Maoists torch dumpers, rollers of construction firm
Patna, May 15 (IANS) Maoists have torched two dumpers and as many rollers of a road construction company in Bihar’s Gaya district, police said Saturday. Armed rebels late Friday attacked the temporary office of a construction firm near Sherghati in Gaya, about 100 km from here, police said. They set on fire dumpers and rollers, [...]
Apex court denies bail to former MP jailed for murder
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday dismissed the bail plea of criminal-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh, a former Lok Sabha MP serving life sentence for the murder of a Bihar district magistrate in 1994. Mohan was sentenced to life term for killing Gopalganj district magistrate G. Krishnaiah Dec 5, 1994.
Lalu claims Gates was shocked to see the plight of Bihar villagers
The Bihar NEWS, May 13: RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Thursday claimed that Gates Saheb was shocked to see the miserable condition of the villages of Bihar and exclaimed “Oh God, it is worse than Africa”. Lalu said that the Microsoft boss was so shocked that he sat on a chatai (mat) at a village. [...]
20 killed as high-tension wire fell on truck
The Bihar NEWS, May 13: More than 20 people were killed and 30 injured when a high-tension electric wire fell on the truck carrying them. They were returning from a funeral. The toll is likely to rise further. The incident occurred in Satpura village under Goraul block of Vaishali district on Thursday afternoon. The death [...]
SP, RJD put Gadkari in dog house for his remark
Chandigarh/Patna/New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari’s “regret” for his remarks likening Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad to “dogs who lick the feet of the Congress and Sonia (Gandhi)”, failed to cut ice with the two leaders and their parties threatened legal action and even to pay him back [...]
New Patna-Delhi Air India flight from May
The Bihar NEWS, May 13: Air India has decided to introduce a new flight (IC- 416) between New Delhi and Patna from May 15. The plane would leave Delhi at 6:05 PM and reach here at 7:25 PM. It will leave Patna at 8:00 PM and reach the national capital at 9:25 PM. Keeping this [...]
SC orders Bihar to appoint 34,540 trained teachers by August 31
The Bihar NEWS, May 13: A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Altamash Kabir on Wednesday directed the Bihar government to appoint 34,540 trained teachers by August 31 and report the details of the action taken report. They had to be appointed as per the advertisement issued by the then Rabri Devi government on December [...]
Bihar village jubilant after Ramgoolam is Mauritius PM again
Patna, May 13 (IANS) Two days after Navinchandra Ramgoolam was sworn in as Mauritius prime minister for a second consecutive term, people from his ancestral village in Bihar Thursday celebrated by playing with colours and distributing sweets. Ramgoolam, in his third stint as prime minister, is an icon for youths in Bhojpur district’s Harigaon village, [...]
RJD plans action against Gadkari for Lalu remarks
Patna, May 13 (IANS) Outraged at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari’s offensive remarks against their chief Lalu Prasad, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leaders in Bihar said they would launch a campaign against him and were also mulling court action. Gadkari had likened Lalu Prasad and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to [...]
Dolphin ‘mitras’, a helping hand for Ganges river dolphins .
Patna, May 13 :The endangered Ganges river dolphin in Bihar will now have new ‘mitras’ or friends, who will create awareness for conservation of the species that is India’s national aquatic animal but frequently falls prey to poachers. The Bihar government took the decision in the wake of the killings of four of the animals [...]
Bill Gates signs health projects with Bihar government
Patna, May 12 (IANS) Microsoft chief Bill Gates Wednesday signed a memorandum on behalf of his foundation with the Bihar government to work on health projects to eradicate polio, kalaazar and tuberculosis from the state. The memorandum was signed in the presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and aims to help the state government execute [...]
Separated conjoined twins to be discharged next week
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) Sita and Geeta, the conjoined twins who were separated after a 14-hour surgery last month, are ready to be discharged from hospital next week, doctors attending on them said Wednesday. A team of 27 doctors in a Delhi hospital had April 5 separated the 18-month-old Siamese twins who hail from [...]
Supreme Court rejects plea for Karkare killing probe
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed a petition for a probe into the killing of Hemant Karkare, head of Maharashtra Police’s anti-terrorist squad (ATS), during the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. The petition wanted an independent fact-finding committee, headed by a sitting or a retired judge of the apex court, to look [...]
