All Entries Tagged With: "Bhagalpur"
Bihar police to investigate hostage incident
Sep.6 (ANI): The Bihar police will conduct a probe into the incident of abduction of four policemen, one of whom was killed a few days ago and three others were freed from Naxals’ captivity in the wee hours of Monday. The decision to conduct investigation has been taken after the release of three hostages today [...]
Lalu, others appear in CBI Court
Sep 06(PTI): RJD chief Lalu Prasad, former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra today appeared in the court of designated CBI judge Vimal Kumar Jain following summons in connection with a multi-crore rupees fodder scam case. Accompanied by his counsel, Chitranjan Sinha, Mr. Prasad reached the court this morning and listed his personal appearance. Justice Jain [...]
86 policemen killed by Naxals in Bihar since 2005: Statistics
Patna, Sep 05(PTI): As many as 86 policemen and over 188 civilians have lost their lives in Maoists attacks in Bihar since 2005, according to official statistics. There was no let up in Maoists attacks this year too with the latest being the killing seven policemen by the rebels in an encounter in Lakhisarai district [...]
Bihar crackdown nets rebel top gun – Hostages to be free today: Maoist
Patna/Bhagalpur, Sep 04(The Telegraph): Bihar police today claimed a breakthrough towards ending the hostage standoff by nabbing a top area commander of the CPI (Maoist) with an associate even as a rebel spokesman said the three captive policemen would be released tomorrow. The arrest of “commander” Pintoo and his aide Bahadur Yadav comes a day [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Presidential pardon for oldest death row convict
Aug 27(MailToday): President Pratibha Patil has commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Shobhit Chamar – the oldest mercy petitioner alive. For a person who has already spent 22 years of his life behind bars, this had been a long wait. His mercy petition was with the President’s office since 1998. Chamar was jailed for killing [...]
Fodder scam: CBI court summons Lalu
Patna, Aug 18(PTI): A special court today summoned RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra and others to appear before it on September six in connection with the multi-crore rupees fodder scam case. Designated CBI Judge Vimal Kumar Jain asked Prasad and others to ensure their personal appearance in connection with the [...]
BJP holds first Muslim meet in Bihar after 12 years
Patna, Aug 08 (The Hindu): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday held a Muslim conclave for the first time in a decade in Bihar. In the party’s first minority meet since 1998, top State leaders echoed the motif that the State’s Muslim minorities were edging closer towards the BJP, while declaiming that the Congress [...]
Bihar to seek Rs 15,000-crore Central package for drought
Patna, Aug 05(PTI): The Bihar government will seek a special financial package of Rs 15,000 crore from the Centre to tackle drought in 28 of the state’s 38 districts. Sources in the state’s disaster management department said a report, which was being given final touches, seeking assistance of Rs 15,000 crore would be placed before [...]
Mentally challenged woman lynched in Bihar
Aug 04 (IANS):A mentally challenged woman, suspected of being a child lifter, was beaten to death with bamboo sticks, bricks and stones by a mob in Bihar’s Munger district Wednesday morning, police said. Twenty people have been arrested. ‘A mob beat to death a mentally retarded woman after news spread that she was trying to [...]
Bihar declares 28 of 38 districts drought-hit
Aug 03, (PTI): The Bihar government today declared 28 out of 38 districts in the state as drought-hit following deficient rainfall. The cabinet presided over by Chief minister Nitish Kumar took a decision to this effect after making an intensive review of the situation in the state on reports received from district magistrates and other [...]
B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University
On 02.01.1952 Universities of Bihar was separated from Patna University, but with its headquarters at Patna. In the year 1960 – The Bihar State Universities Act 1960 bifurcated the existing University of Bihar into three separate Universities, namely; (1) Bihar University, Muzaffarpur (2) Ranchi University, Ranchi (3) Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur. Again in the year 1961 [...]
Rs 2.03 cr released to 17 Naxal-hit districts
Patna, Aug 01(TNN): The state home department has released Rs 2.03 crore to 17 extremist-affected districts from the contingent fund for the immediate fortification work of the police stations, outposts and pickets. The fund will be used for construction of boundary walls, barracks and watch towers. Five districts: Banka, Sheohar, Lakhisarai, Vaishali and Begusarai will [...]
Bihar stares at drought again
Patna, July 30 (IANS) : Bihar plans to declare more than two dozen districts drought hit soon, with the state already recording a 20 percent rainfall deficit, officials said Friday. An official in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s office said the decision was likely to be taken in the next cabinet meeting in a day or two. [...]
Slogans, songs in Bihar jails to remember Charu Mazumdar
Patna, July 30 (IANS) Hundreds of jailed Maoists and activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML) Friday remembered their icon and Communist revolutionary Charu Mazumdar in different jails across Bihar, police said. Mazumdar, born in Siliguri in West Bengal, was the founding father of the Naxalite movement. He was captured on July 16, [...]
Tilkamanjhi Bhagalpur University
Tilkamanjhi Bhagalpur University (T.M. Bhagalpur University) was formally known as Bhagalpur University established under Bihar State Universities act, 1960 and came into existence from the 12th July, 1960. Later on, it was renamed as Tilkamanjhi Bhagalpur University. It is a teaching-cum-affiliating University and has its headquarter at Bhagalpur. It has juridiction over the four districts [...]
Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga
The Temple of Learning Lalit Narayan Mithila Vishvidyalaya, Darbhanga is an outcome of the cherished desire of the people of this region. Eminent academicians like Dr. Amarnatha Jha, Dr. R.C. Mazumdar, Dr. A. S. Altekar, Dr. Sunit Kumar Chaterjee and many others had expressed their view in favour of the establishment of modern University at [...]
Bihar Transport Corp invites bids for empanelment of ad agency for it buses
July 28(Exchange4Media):The Bihar State Road Transport Corporation (BSRTC) has invited bids under the ‘two-packet system’ from ad agencies for empanelment for planning and conducting of ads issued by BSRTC, utilising the Corporation’s buses and bus stands for advertising purposes. The EMD required is Rs 10,000. The bids have been invited for two categories: • Advertising [...]
It’s Janata Dal ‘disunited’ in Bihar
July 27 (IANS): Assembly elections may be barely months away, but Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) seems anything but united with clashes and violence marring several meetings of party workers in the last few days. On Tuesday, JD-U workers kept up the trend with clashes in Bhagalpur and Siwan districts. Similar trouble had broken out [...]
Women give ‘birth’ to 5 children in 2 months in Bihar
Patna, July 26 (IANS) A woman, as everyone knows, usually gives birth to a baby after nine months of pregnancy, but in Bihar 298 women claim to have delivered two to five children in a span of 60 days – at least that’s what records of incentives amount given to new mothers under a government [...]
Bihar’s debut filmmaker shines in international for a
Patna, July 18, (DHNS): Twenty-seven-year-old Gitanjali Sinha rubbed her eyes in disbelief when she was informed that her debut movie “Yeh Khula Aasman” (The Open Sky) has bagged the ‘Best Foreign Feature Film’ award at the All Sports Film Festival held in Los Angeles this month. On cloud nine, after her first directorial venture hogged [...]
Bodies of two abducted minors found in Bihar
July 15 (IANS): The bodies of two minor boys were found near a pond in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district Thursday morning, a day after they were allegedly abducted, police said. Police recovered the bodies of Abhisek, 8, and Sonu, 10, who were abducted Wednesday from Babutola area in Bhagalpur, about 200 km from here. Family members of [...]
Strike evokes a near total response in Bihar
Patna, July 10 (IANS) A strike called by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) to protest against the fuel price hike hit train and road services and paralysed normal life across Bihar Saturday. More than 5,000 protesters, including RJD chief Lalu Prasad and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, were arrested [...]
Bridge over Ganga first project under PPP in Bihar
The Bihar NEWS, Jun 16: The chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Tuesday that the mega bridge over river Ganga between Bakhtiarpur in Patna district and Tajpur in Samastipur district would be the first such project to be built under the Public Private Partnership mode. This is historic day and one example of changing Bihar, [...]
Four more Bihar districts to have Rural SPs soon
The Bihar NEWS, June 10: Four more districts are likely to have Rural SPs soon. The state police headquarters has proposed creation of the post in Muzffarpur, Darbhanga, Gaya and Bhagalpur districts. According to sources the proposal for creation of new posts of the SP (Rural) in four important districts is at present under the [...]
EC refuses to give any poll date, reviews pre-poll works
The Bihar NEWS, June 02: The Election Commissioner, S Y Quraishi, on Monday refused to give any hint about the tentative schedule for the forthcoming assembly election, insisting, that there was still a lot of time left for the polls. Expressing satisfaction at the pace of updating of photo electoral roll and coverage of EPIC [...]
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 [...]
Kahalgaon NTPC plant hit by coal shortage
The Bihar NEWS, May 04: Now when the water level of Ganga has risen and there was hope that the power generation would improve shortage of coal has hit the NTPC’s Kahalgaon plant in Bhagalpur district. As per assessment of the plant management coal shortage is causing 30 per cent under-utilization of installed capcatity of [...]
Activists cry foul over Ganges dolphin poaching
Patna, April 30 (IANS) A day after four Ganges River Dolphins were killed by suspected poachers on the banks of the Ganga river, wildlife experts and conservationists Friday stressed the need to save the endangered species. “It is an alarming situation that poachers continue to kill dolphins for their flesh and oil. It is high [...]
Bharat Bandh evokes widespread response in Bihar
The Bihar NEWS, April 27: LJP president Ram Vilas Paswan and RJD general secretary, Ram Kripal Yadav, were among the 4,500 people who courted arrest on the occasion of Bharat Bandh in Bihar on Tuesday. The Bandh call given by 13 non-NDA and non-UPA parties evoked good response almost all over the state. In Patna [...]
Gangetic dolphin killed in Bihar
Patna, April 11 (IANS) Suspected poachers killed a dolphin on the banks of river Ganga in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, an official said Sunday. A 1.5 metre long dolphin was found dead in Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary area Saturday. “A dolphin was found dead in Raghpur riverine area. Some local people informed forest officials about this. [...]
Munger
Munger town is the headquarters of Munger district, in the Indian state of Bihar. Historically, Munger is known for its manufacturing of iron articles such as firearms and swords. History Munger is a modern town with historical roots. Previously named Monghyr, this town has many historical sites. During the reign of Nawab Mir Qasim the [...]
Madhepura
Madhepura is a city and a municipality in Madhepura district in the Indian state of Bihar. Madhepura as it stands now was carved out of Saharsa district and got the status of revenue district on 9 May, 1981. Prior to this Madhepura was a sub-division under Bhagalpur district with effect from 3 September, 1845. Subsequently, [...]
Germans plan trials for arsenic removal from water in Bihar
Patna, April 2 (IANS) A team of German researchers is likely to begin next week field trials of a new technology for arsenic removal from ground water in Bihar, which has 16 arsenic-affected districts. Arsenic, an odourless and tasteless semi-metal element, occurs naturally in the environment and sometimes as a by-product of agriculture and industry. [...]
Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur is a city and municipal corporation in the Bihar state of Eastern India. Bhagalpur is one of the oldest districts of Bihar located in the Southern region. It is situated in the plane of the Ganga basin at the height of 141 feet above sea level. It covers an area of 2569.50 sq. km. [...]
Banka
Banka is a city and a municipality in Banka district in the state of Bihar, India. Geography With Heavenly peace n far from moribund citylife Banka is a beautiful region of Bihar located at 24°53?N 86°55?E24.88°N 86.92°E It has an average elevation of 79 metres (259 feet). There are Colleges named P.B.S.College, Mahila College and [...]
Digha, Rajeev Nagar now legalized colonies
The Bihar News, April 01: The Bihar assembly on Wednesday passed the Digha Acquired Land Setttlement Bill 2010. Thus for the first time in the state the illegal settlements on the encroached government land acquired by the Bihar State Housing Board (BSHB) between 1973 amd 1983 has been given legal sanction, largely to appease big [...]
Nitish justifies setting up AMU branch in Kishanganj
Patna, March 30 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar justified the government’s decision to set up a branch of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) at Kishanganj district in the state in the wake of opposition by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and students organisation Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). “There should not be any opposition to [...]
Bill on Agriculture University passed by Assembly
Patna: With the passage of Bihar Agriculture (Amendment) Bill 2010 by the Bihar Assembly on Monday the process for opening a new Agriculture University at Sabaur in Bhagalpur district has started. Besides, the state assembly passed two moer Bills on Monday. While replying to amendment motion moved by Ram Deo Rai (Congress), Chief Minister Nitish [...]
Kahalgaon police firing justified by Commission
Patna: The Kahalgaon Firing Judicial Inquiry Commission led by Justice Sadanand Mukherjee has justified the police firing of January 18 and 19, 2008. However, it indicted the then Superintending Engineer (Electricity) of Bhagalpur, Ajay Kumar Prasad. According to reports the state government has started departmental proceedings against him. The report, tabled on the state legislative [...]
