Archive for June, 2010
Unemployed medicos in Bihar polish shoes in protest against the state administration
The Bihar NEWS, Jun 30: Unemployed medicos in Patna polished footwear in protest to voice their anguish at not being given any employment by the State government. Under the banner of Health and Education Reform Association, the protesting doctors with stethoscopes around their necks polished the shoes here on Tuesday. Graduate doctors of Darbhanga Medical [...]
Scanty rains spark drought fears in Bihar
Patna, June 29 (IANS): Scanty monsoon rains across have triggered fears that Bihar may be headed for another drought. Monsoon normally hits the state between June 12 and 14. While the rains have begun, they have been scanty. This has had farmers in Bihar worrying. “A weak monsoon has affected paddy sowing. Till date, only [...]
Nitish inaugurates new rail lines, two ROBs in Bihar
Patna, June 29 (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar inaugurated Rs 180 crore Rajgir-Tilaiya railway line at Rajgir, besides two road overbridges in Patna on Tuesday. The new railway line would ease the problem of the people travelling to Tilaiya in Jharkhand and would help in supply of coal to the NPC unit at Barh, [...]
Bihar court asks Raj Thackeray to appear on July 25
Bettiah (Bihar), June 30 (PTI): Taking cognizance of charges against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for allegedly inciting violence against aspirants from the state for Railway jobs in Mumbai, a Bihar court has asked him to appear before it next month to explain his position. Chief Judicial Magistrate of West Champaran M K Dwivedi passed the [...]
Catholic priest shot at in Bihar
Patna, June 29 (IANS): An unidentified man shot at a Catholic priest and seriously injured him in a Bihar town, police said Tuesday. Father Michael Ignatius was shot at late Monday near Nazarath Hospital at Mokama, about 100 km from Patna. He was shifted to a hospital in Patna. “A person has been arrested in this [...]
Bihar to approach Sri Lanka for Bodhi tree sapling
Patna, June 28 (IANS): The Bihar government will approach Sri Lanka for another sapling of the Bodhi tree after the first one planted by Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama in Patna wilted due to negligence, triggering anger in the Buddhist community. Bihar Art and Culture Minister Renu Devi said on Monday over telephone that the [...]
BJP, JD-U to repeat seat-sharing formula in Bihar
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) have reached an understanding for the forthcoming Bihar assembly elections with both parties sticking to the seat-sharing formula of the 2005 assembly polls, a BJP leader said on Monday. BJP Bihar unit chief C P Thakur also told IANS that [...]
Nitish government to restore powers of Madarsa Board in Bihar
Gopalganj, Jun 28 (PTI): With an apparent eye on minority vote bank in poll-bound Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said powers will be restored to the Madarsa Board to grant recognition to educational institutions run by Muslim seminaries. “The NDA government will restore the powers of the Madarsa Board stripped by the Rabri Devi [...]
Pakhi Hegde as a Dance-worker in Lofar
Famous and successful star-actress of Bhojpuri cinema, Pakhi Hegde, is now playing the character of a dance-worker. Pakhi has earlier done many kinds of roles including a damsel to a typical Indian lady. Now she is playing the role of a dance-worker, tawayaf, in Bhojpuri film Lofar. The story of the film revolve around this [...]
Nirahua Enterprises exposes the myth
Nirahua Enterprises entered film distribution last year and has distributed three Bhojpuri films so far. These films are Prem Ke Rog Bhaeel, Saat Saheliyan, and Shiva. All these films celebrated 50th day in UP territory and exposed the myth prompted by other distributors who claimed that Bhojpuri films have no business in UP. It appears [...]
Jabaaz Jigarwale to be released on 2nd July
Vinay Anand, Sushil Singh, and Viraj Bhatta starrer film Jabaaz Jigarwale is going to be released on 2ng July in theatres of Bihar and Jharkhand. Produced by Deepak Adhikari and Leeladhar Nuepen and directed by Nirmal KC this film is a romantic action film. Vinay Anand plays the role of an honest police officer while [...]
Fuel price hike: LJP, RJD call Bihar bandh on July 10
Patna, June 27: Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD have called a 24-hour Bihar bandh jointly on July 10 to protest the hike in fuel prices. “Petroleum price hike will raise the price of various commodities. UPA government at the Centre and the ruling JD(U)-BJP combine in the state are responsible for [...]
24 killed in Bihar road accident
The Bihar NEWS, June 26: Twenty-four people were killed on Saturday when a bus in which they were travelling collided with a truck in Bihar, police said. Over two dozen people were seriously injured, and some were battling for life in the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH). The accident took place near Chenati village [...]
Bihar origin researcher designs solar-powered computer
The Bihar NEWS, June 26: There is good news for computer-users in interiors of power-starved Bihar. Dr Bhaskar Choubey, originally from Bihar, and now a professor in the University of Glasgow, UK, has started a project which will enable internet users in interiors to get connected to the info-highway. His computer would make use of [...]
Fifteen killed in Bihar accident
Patna, June 26, 2010: Fifteen people were killed early Saturday when a bus in which they were travelling collided with a truck in Bihar, police said. Over 10 people were injured after the accident took place near Chenati village in Bihar’s Patna district, a police officer said. “All the injured have been admitted to a [...]
Tu Hi Mor Balma to be released on 25th June
Praveshlal Yadav and Rinku Ghosh starrer Bhojpuri film Tu Hi More Balma is going to be released on 25th June. Praveshlal Yadav is the hero of the film and plays a street ruffian Kishan. But the lead actress of the film, played by Rinku Ghosh, loves him with all his shortcomings. Three other friends of [...]
Bhojpuri cinema fills a rising demand
With growing popularity and demand Bhojpuri cinema is attracting all sorts of people. Many Indian producers of other language films, including Bollywood and South Indian film industry, are coming to Bhojpuri film production. And now, a research scholar of University of Pennsylvania is working on a dissertion on Bhojpuri cinema. “As Bollywood films have increasingly [...]
Monalisa does an Item Dance in Mrityunjay
Famous Bhojpuri actress Monalisa recently did an Item dance for the Bhojpuri film Mrityunjay on an elegant set erected on floor no. 5 of Filmistan studio. This set had witnessed dance sequences by Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Dixit, Shilpa Shetty and many famous actresses of Bollywood and it was for the first time that any Bhojpuri [...]
Making of Lofar is complete
Bhojpuri super star Dinesh Lal Yadav is coming to you as a Lofar with two actresses opposite him. Nirahua is doing a double role in the film and the actresses are Pakhi Hegde and Monalisa. Charismatic acting of Nirahua with melodious songs, superb action, and romance of the film will bring crowds to the cinema [...]
Security forces recover 300kg ammonium nitrate from Maoists in Bihar
The Bihar NEWS, June 25: Security forces recovered over 300 kilograms ammonium nitrate by arresting four Naxalites from Bihar’s Chakai village in Jamui District on Friday. Ammonium nitrate is being used in manufacturing of ammunition. Of the arrested four, security forces identified two Naxals as-Nageswar Das and Bideshi Paswan. Based on a tip-off, Police intercepted [...]
Patna High Court issues directive on excise scam
The Bihar NEWS, June 25: A single bench of Justice Samarendra Pratap Singh of the Patna High Court on Thursday issued a directive for making the Bihar government a respondent in a writ petition seeking CBI investigation into the multi-crore excise scam. The court asked the petitioner, Ajit Sarthi, to make the state government a [...]
Sushil Modi joins Nitish’s ‘Vishwash Yatra’
Patna, June 25 : Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi joined Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s ‘Vishwash Yatra’ Friday, indicating an end to the rift between their parties. Nitish Kumar and Modi left for Aurangabad district as part of the programme ahead of assembly elections in October. The two are also slated to visit Gaya [...]
Former union minister Digvijay Singh dies in London
New Delhi, June 24 : Former union minister and Lok Sabha MP from Bihar, Digvijay Singh, passed away in a hospital in London, a member of his personal staff said here Thursday. He was 54. “He died at the St. Thomas Hospital in London,” his aide S.K. Mishra said. Digvijay Singh is survived by his [...]
I can dance better than most other actresses: Neetu Chandra
New Delhi, June 24: After attempting a mujra a la ageless beauty Rekha in “Sadiyaan”, actress Neetu Chandra is yearning to set the dance floor on fire like international divas Jennifer Lopez and Shakira and prove that she can dance better than most other actresses in Bollywood. “I am sure I can dance better than [...]
Former RJD MLA gets life term
The Bihar NEWS, June 24: The Fast Track Court judge of Gaya, Achhutanand Upadhyay, on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to former RJD MLA from Atri Rajendra Yadav in a murder case. On June 17, the court found Rajendra Yadav guilty of murder charges. Rajendra was also awarded three years’ imprisonment under Section 34 of the [...]
Bihar minister Sudha Srivastava passes away
The Bihar NEWS, June 24: Bihar Planning and Development Minister Sudha Srivastava passed away at Patna Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday evening. She was 82 and is survived by two sons and three daughters. Sudha Srivastava, niece of Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash Narayan, complained of uneasiness when she came back to Patna after attending [...]
Taslimuddin to join JD(U), finally
The Bihar NEWS, June 24: Controversial former Union minister of state for home affairs Taslimuddin has finally got the green signal to join the Janata Dal (United). On Wednesday he announced his decision to join the party when the chief minister Nitish Kumar visits Kishanganj in the first week of July. Taslimuddin quit the RJD [...]
Neo-converts dominate new JD(U) National Executive
The Bihar NEWS, June 24: New entrants from Rashtriya Janata Dal and other parties dominate the new National Executive of the Janata Dal (United). Party national President Sharad Yadav on Wednesday re-nominated Shivanand Tiwari as its general secretary-cum-spokesman. Besides, the party would have eight general secretaries. They are Ramendra Kumar Ravi, Upendra Kushwaha, Arun Kumar [...]
Former minister blasts Nitish’s pseudo-secularism
The Bihar NEWS, June 24: Former minister Jamshed Ashraf said on Wednesday that a person sitting in the lap of BJP and RSS has no right to give sermons about secularism. Talking to reporters he questioned chief minister Nitish Kumar’s wisdom in cancelling the dinner of the BJP bigwigs. After all had he been so [...]
Will not accept JD-U conditions for alliance: BJP
New Delhi, June 23 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said it will not accept any condition from the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on keeping its leaders Narendra Modi and Varun Gandhi out of campaigning during assembly polls in Bihar later this year. “As per media reports, about all these demands by the JD-U… Nobody [...]
Arun quits Congress, on way to Janata Dal (United)
Patna,(BiharTimes): The former Janata Dal (United) MP from Jehanabad, Arun Kumar, resigned from all the posts and primary membership of the Congress on Tuesday. He is likely to re-join the ruling Janata Dal (United) on Thursday. There has been speculation about Arun’s rejoining the party for the last several months, especially after the resignation of [...]
Congress expels party MLA for taking part in RS poll
The Bihar NEWS, Jun 23: Congress MLA from Sikta in West Champaran district, Khurshid Alam, was on Wednesday expelled from the party for six years by the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee for defying the party whip and taking part in the voting in the recent Rajya Sabha elections. The Congress decided to abtained from the [...]
One killed in Bihar blast
Patna, June 23 : A man was killed and two children were seriously injured in a blast in a dustbin at the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital here Wednesday, police said. The man’s son, who collected garbage, spotted something unusual in the dustbin and asked his father to take a look, a police official [...]
Pirated CDs seized in Patna
Patna, June 23 : Police Wednesday seized pirated CDs of Bollywood films worth Rs.5 million during raids at an electronics market in the Bihar capital. A police team raided storehouses in the Bakarganj electronics market and seized pirated CDs of latest Bollywood films, including ‘Raavan’, besides two computers and CD writers. “We have arrested four [...]
BJP defers decision on Bihar alliance
New Delhi/Patna, June 23 :The Bharatiya Janata Party’s central leadership will take a final decision on continuing its alliance with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in Bihar, it was announced late Tuesday after a meeting of state party leaders with BJP president Nitin Gadkari. The party’s central leadership would meet Wednesday or Thursday to take the [...]
Police team Bihar sent to Gujarat to probe ad issue
Patna, June 22 : A Bihar Police team has been sent to Gujarat’s Surat city to probe who sanctioned full page advertisements in vernacular dailies here bearing a photograph of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi, an official said Tuesday. The advertisements triggered a controversy between ruling allies, the Janata Dal-United [...]
Maoists call 48-hour shutdown in five states
Kolkata, June 22: The Maoists Tuesday called for a 48-hour shutdown from June 30 in five states – Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh – to protest the disinvestment policy of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. “We will protest against the UPA’s decision to disinvest 10 percent in Coal India and Hindustan Copper,” [...]
Four BJP ministers attend Bihar cabinet meeting
Patna, June 22 : Four of the 12 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers in the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) led Bihar government attended the cabinet meeting here Tuesday after Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi instructed party ministers not to boycott it. With the BJP set to meet in New Delhi to discuss the rift with [...]
BJP denies Nitish’s ban on Modi, Varun
New Delhi, June 22: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday denied receiving any indication of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) threatening to snap ties with it if party leaders Narendra Modi and Varun Gandhi campaign during Bihar’s assembly polls later this year. “We have not received any such message from the JD-U on who will campaign [...]
Congress’ special attention on Bihar, Uttar Pradesh: Sonia
New Delhi, June 22: The Congress will pay special attention to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the mass contact programme it has launched, party chief Sonia Gandhi has said. “The Congress party has launched mass contact programme in the country with special attention being paid to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar,” she said, in her letter [...]
BJP ministers likely to boycott cabinet meeting
Patna, June 22: With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) set to meet in New Delhi to decide its future with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, BJP ministers are likely to boycott a cabinet meeting here Tuesday. A day after the BJP said its alliance with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) was intact, the BJP ministers in [...]
Petition seeks action against Nitish on flood funds
Patna, June 21 : A criminal case should be filed against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for returning Rs.5 crore flood relief funds to Gujarat, a petitioner said while moving the Patna High Court Monday. The public interest litigation (PIL) seeking action against the chief minister is likely to be heard by the court next [...]
Alliance with JD-U will be intact: BJP
New Delhi, June 21 :The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday said its alliance with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) will be “intact” despite differences with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. “We are meeting today (Monday) to sort out the issues with the JD-U and not to aggravate it. Our alliance with the JD-U would be intact,” [...]
Nitish Kumar, Sushil Modi avoid each other at function
Patna, June 21 : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi avoided each other at an official function Monday, though the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader later chose to play down the rift between the two parties. Both Nitish Kumar and Sushil Modi were present a function [...]
NDA is crumbling, says Congress
New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) With the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ties with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) hitting a rough patch, the Congress said Monday that the BJP-led national alliance was crumbling. “The thesis of bipolarity of the BJP-led NDA (National Democratic Alliance) has been rejected by people… There is one national party and there [...]
Will wait, watch Nitish moves: Paswan
New Delhi, June 21 : In view of the rift between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas Paswan has adopted a wait-and-watch approach on the developments in the poll-bound state. “We have to see whether Nitish Kumar is enacting an electoral drama. Otherwise, [...]
Tension between BJP, JD-U ‘a drama’: Lalu Prasad
Patna, June 20 : Terming reports of the growing rift between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) “nautanki (drama)”, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Sunday dared the BJP to snap ties and contest the coming Bihar polls on its own. “Both of them are playing a drama. They will [...]
BJP, JD-U widening rift threatens Bihar alliance
Patna/New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) The rift between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar widened Sunday after his deputy boycotted a joint march in rural Patna and the BJP gave “a strong message” to the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) veteran to behave. A miffed Nitish Kumar, who had been upset with [...]
Six railway officials suspended in Bihar
Patna, June 19 : Six railway employees have been suspended after it was found that they had shielded those involved in a fake railway ticket racket in Bihar’s Munger district, officials said Saturday. The officials of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the Government Railway Police (GRP) were suspended late Friday night, a railway official [...]
NDA constituents petrified by Modi’s shadow: Congress
New Delhi, June 19 :The Congress Saturday took a dig at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over the Bihar government returning the Rs.5 crore unutilised amount of Kosi flood relief, saying that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents were “petrified of his shadow falling on them”. He said it clearly showed that “NDA was history [...]
Angry Nitish returns flood relief money to Gujarat
Patna, June 19: Miffed over advertisements featuring him and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and referring to the aid provided by Gujarat during the 2008 Kosi floods, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday returned the Rs.5 crore that had been given for the purpose. Exactly a week ago, Nitish Kumar had threatened to return the [...]
Poor Bihar’s ministers spent Rs.47 lakh on petrol
Patna, June 19 : Fourteen ministers in Bihar, one of India’s poorest and most economically backward states, spent a whopping Rs.47.34 lakh on petrol in about 19 months, a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has revealed. The details of expenses by 14 ministers were made public Saturday by the opposition Rashtriya Janata [...]
BJP writes to Gadkari on JD-U’s cross-voting
Ranchi, June 18 : The strained relations between the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and its Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ally in Bihar seems to have had an impact in neighbouring Jharkhand, where some JD-U legislators cross-voted in the Rajya Sabha election Thursday. Two JD-U legislators, Raja Peter and Sudha Chaudhary, voted in favour of Jharkhand [...]
BJP suspends Banwari Ram for cross-voting
The Bihar NEWS, Jun 18: After the Rashtriya Janata Dal expelled two of its Bihar MLAs for cross-voting the BJP suspended three of its MLAs. One of them is Banwari Ram from Bihar, while the other two are Bhimsen Chaudhary from Orissa and Ram Chandra of Jharkhand. The party’s candidate in Jharkhand, Ajay Maru, got [...]
RJD expels two for cross-voting in Rajya Sabha polls
Patna, June 18 : The opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Friday expelled two legislators for six years for voting for the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) during the Rajya Sabha elections Thursday in Bihar. Rajesh Kumar Singh and Pappu Yadav were expelled for violating the party whip. “The party has expelled two legislators for cross-voting in [...]
Monsoon hits Bihar
Patna, June 18:Monsoon rains have finally lashed parts of Bihar, bringing respite to millions seeking escape from a scorching summer. Purnea, Supaul, Kishanganj, Muzaffarpur and Araria districts experienced moderate to heavy rainfall. “This is enough indication that conditions for the onset of monsoon have turned favourable and monsoon has finally arrived in Bihar,” Animesh Chandra, [...]
Punctuality to be rewarded in Government Administration Department
The Bihar NEWS, Jun 18: The Government Administration Department (GAD) has introduced ‘Best Employees of the Month’ reward scheme for its most punctual employees. This is a part of exercise to inculcate a sense of punctuality among its 135-odd employees at the government secretariat. To motivate its employees to come to office on time and [...]
Don Satish Pandey’s brother voted for JD(U) nominee in RS poll
The Bihar NEWS, Jun 18: While the Rashtriya Janata Dal was the main beneficiary of the disarray in the Bahujan Samaj Party––four of its MLAs voted for Ram Kripal Yadav––in Thursday’s Rajya Sabha election the identity of the fifth one, Amarendra Pandey, who threw his weight behind the Janata Dal (United), is being discussed in [...]
Paswan, Rudy make it to Rajya Sabha from Bihar
Patna, June 17 : Five candidates from the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the opposition, led by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), were elected to the Rajya Sabha from Bihar Thursday despite cross-voting by some legislators. Official sources said that LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, BJP spokesman Rajiv Pratap [...]
Cross voting in Bihar Rajya Sabha polls
Patna, June 17 : Cross voting by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and three Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislators in favour of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Bihar’s Rajya Sabha elections Thursday ended the hopes of an independent candidate to make it to the upper house. BJP legislator Banwari Ram and three BSP legislators, [...]
